MAIL NEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 59, 15 April 1907, Page 4

MAIL NEWS.

London. February 10. The .Swansea licensing justices m live rears have extinguished si\tv->even licenses.

■lity J.n-ands of a I,ami mimlM-i-in- !<">, winch has terrorist'.! ih,» , lor tj, 0 f l-r.inee for years. have been arrested.

Imiglar, carried out an c.wptioaadv ilariiiK rohliery at a house in Bancroft road, Mle hml. They removed the sifu .1 bedroom lo tile kitchen, broke it "pen, and stole more than UiOOO worth of bonds and bank-notes.

Mr Tail, the Mayor of Kingston, Jamaica, has died, states Router as the result of the injuries which lie received in the earthquake.

As nothing came of the attempt last year to raise in Balaklava Bav the British ironclad Mink with her treasure during the Crimean war. the l!n.-<iim \diniiraltv officials a,' Sevastopol now propose to entrust tl„. task of bringing up the treasure to a Russian salvage svn licat el '

Sir Robert Ifart. director-general of Chinese. Imperial Customs, is to leave China for England on a two' vears' leave of absence, and he is not. likelv ever lo return. This is regarded as the outcome of the appointment last summer of Chinese as Customs commissioners. Sir Robort Hart, who is an Irishman by biifh, has been in the Chinese Cstonis since 185!). He became director-general of Chinese Customs—inland as well as maritime—in 1001. TOWN SWEPT BY A WAVE. The town of Marina di Catanzaro, in Calabria, Italy, has been struck by a tidal wave. It is reported that 122 houses have been totally destroyed, and that a large number of the inhabitants have! lost their lives. "TRAITORS" EXECUTED. A band of terrorists took two unknown men into the church at Slavkoff, in the Government, of Ivielce, Russia, bound them, ordered them to kneel, and then killed both by firing rides into them from behind. The terrorists made good their escape. It is believed that the victims had betrayed party secrets.

FORTY-TON WHEEL BREAKS. Damage to the extent of upwards of £IOOO was done by the collapsing of ai driving-wheel weighing forty tons at the Nine Locks Ironworks Brierley Hill, Staffordshire. Pieces weighing 'two or three tons were hurled among the workmen, who were, however, untouched, but the machinery was smashed. The breaking of the wheel is attributed to the effects of 'the severe frost. COLLEGES FOR ALL. Tiie New York World states that it is the intention of Mr John D. Rockefeller to make all the large towns of America centres of higher education. He xlesires that in every hundred square miles of thickly-populated .country there shall he a collegiate inst:tution. Two-thirds of the gift of £0,400,000 which lie has made to the Generai Education Board will he devoted to this purpose. A COLONIAL PAGEANT. The London Standard makes the interesting suggestion that the colonial Premiers should he received not only with the warm hospitality of which they are assured, but with all the pomp and ctimstanee worthy of a great Imperial occasion. "Nothing less than the full pageant of a State ceremonial, iu which the Sovereign, the Press, and Commons take.part, and in which the people of England may be afforded the opportunity to share, can be adequate to the reception of our distinguished guests." TORPEDO-BOAT DISASTER. Nine men were killed and one terribly injured by a disastrous explosion which occurred on the French 'torpedoboat No. .139, at Lorient, on Februarv Bth.

It appears that the explosion occurred while the boat was travelling at a high speed. Eleven men were at work ill the engine-room, anil nine of these were killed on the spot. LIVERPOOL'S GREAT ANNIVERSARY. In August. 1207, letters patent were granted by King John constituting Liverpool a free borough. The finance committee have recommended the Council tn celebrate the 700tli approaching anniversary', and that an allowance of '.£2000 lie made to the Lord Mayor to enable him to assist in the work. lIOUfiE FAMINE. East Lancashire is suffering from a-re markable house famine, and builders and owners of houses are making fortunes rapidly. Two young mill hands -who started building less than a year ago have made £IO,OOO. The extraordintraordinarv boom in the cotton 'trade has caused the demand for workmen's dwellings to outstrip the supply, an.i 200 operatives who wish to get married cannot do so because of the lack of houses

Dwellings cannot be rented at any price, and the only chance of getting one is to buy it at the landlord's own price. Many houses have been >ohl in this way. and the present tenants have received notice to quit. In one street of twenty houses eight families have been turned out, and have gone into lodgings.