MAIL NEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVIII, Issue 81917, 25 January 1907, Page 4

MAIL NEWS.

'THE WORLD'S" UAITEXIXi;,?. London, December S. -\ newboy i:as been elected Mav„r 01 Mcwiioil. 'l'hei-e has been a partial failure of •he potafo crop i„ Ireland. A crowd of one hundred women as'■•nblcdi an,! ma.le a d j nonstration ;'l l.ivrpool against the chin,-e lauudiyinr,,. u.-d threw Moin-s -,; Hie Ciiineses club window. Daring robber- st„|, , t ,„.,;, y]]l containing C2S ; im,. l ~, .;,,,. ~ '"•"'"Use (Kii, ,„.,., ~„s t „„;,.,, ''>•• -T'rolif |)„„-i„ ha, 1, ~-„„. ~ rauiig inaiiiiie. and is under tl„. deOi'ion that he is a fa moils 501 di,.,-, 'Three hundred („„. „," u .;,j.. u „.... burne.l on boar,! the haioiio [„,. which has b vi, d.~:ri.\vd' b,-' .5.... ;,, if'.- liny of Iliseav. 'l'be Rev. M. .1. Truman, vicar of Arnold, collapsed on the altar steps wild- he was conducting the comiiiuni--011 service, and died soon afterwards. -Moonlighting outrages ],;,,-,. ], ~„ committed by lioers i„ Orangia on '"■« l tanners who refused to support the l,oer pnii.ical programme. Tee shocks caused 'by the 'blowing up o: the li,.lMiriif factory at Mitt-iK Germany, were registered on the seismograph at GoettingeiK, 2-30 miles away, as serious e.irthc|uakes. The decapitated head of Major Gen era! Guise Tucker was found vesierday on the Southwestern Jim at Cosham, near Portsmouth, anil at the inquest a verdict of "suicide" was returned. Portion of about forty skeleton.,, believed ol date from Saxon times, and all in an oriented position, though some were lying partly on their sides, have been unearthed 'by some workmen near the ruins of Reading Abbey. A report on the depopulation of the agricultural areas in Great lirita'n. is sued by the Hoard of Agriculture, states that amongst the most prominent causes are the introduction of .'abor saving machinery, the laying down of land to grass,'and flic atfrac" tion of town life. London police stations arc only just being connected with the 1 ■h'pllniiu system, and this after years of persistent advocacy in the press. It is slated that General IHoulh contemplates an appeal to the public for what be believes will be the moot gigantic anjl culminating work of his life, viz.. the populating of Rhodesia. The average of intelligence in Siberia is so far higher than in Russia, say a Siberian merchant, that it is like a different nation, lie af tributes tnis to the vast number of "intellectuals" who have lived in exile 'ihere. The French Minister of Finance thinks of proposing a tax on pianos not used in a professional capacity—and they, of course, form the majority. There are in France about 500,000 pianos, and a tax of, s.av. 10s. would bring in the respectable sum of £230,000.. A despatch from Tucson. Arizona, sas that Clifton 1111, been half destroyed by Hoods. A concentration dam. built of earth, burst and Hooded tTie town. The Copper <>,„.,.„ u.,1,] is n , ported "lo have been carried away, a:.,1 ■it 1-east fifty persons have liven drowned. Count iioui d- C.isteUanc—the divorced husband of Mine. Anna Could - was boycotted in the French Chamber of Deputies whem ho rose to speak, members trooping out and leaving him "io speak to empty benches. "I have only been home six weeks," writes Sir Tisunas Liplnn. "and I am already inundate,! with appeals for subscriptions 011 Ijehalf of the unemp'oyed and pour.'' Yet in Sir Thomas' eight weeks' tour; in America the civ everywhere was for labor at almost any price, and every city and town had its story of unparalleled prosperity.