MAIL NEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 81890, 19 November 1906, Page 4

MAIL NEWS.

SUMMARY OF THE WORLDS HAPPENINGS. London. October 22. A Russian tsiud nt attempted tu :'- sassinatc Count Wittf near Wicsba-' en on Saturday. The sludent wa" arreted after a desperate stiuggloJewefc worth £72,000 have "Je'y been stolen frnm guest- at dinners and dances in New York. Hostcs. es are comparing invitation list-. Miss Violet Farrar. daughter of a Souih African millionaire, secretly married her father's chauffeur. They eloped in a motor car from Mr Far rar's house at Cookham. Lightning exp oded sixty three tons of powder and melinite and Gooo leaded >helS at Kort Montfaueon, Fiance, killing nine'persons, and in juring fourteen. The capital invoked in the railways of the United Kingdom amounts tu £1,282,801,000, or over £250.000,000 more than ten years ago. The fir-t chapters of Mark Twain's autobiography, which he declares will be a model for all time, have appear ed, and abound in examples of the author's best humor. Another millionaire's estate was -worn for probate, making the t-ixth on which d'-ath dudes have been paid -ince Apri: Ist. According to an official Hlue li'»>k. many Iri-h emigrants to Ameiica become insane as the rel-ult of their hard -truggle in a foreign land. German newspapers are denounc ing the Britt-h as inho-pitable barbariaa- owing to the Portsmouth authorities dec ining 10 allow the German liner M' teor to fa-ten to a buoy rcstived tor British war ve-sels Rttbbers tunnelled through the vault',- of the German Royal Mint and ?tn e £6500 n gold. Ratepayer-' organi-aiinns are being formed in the various London boroughs 10 re-is: the Socialist raid* on the borough council- and 'he county councils. A party if Gl.vgou cum il'ors on a irip to Loch Katrine aie alleged to have baptised f.ic of their number with whi-key at',.! marooned him. naked, on a lon ■'/ island.