MAIL SUMMARY.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 60, 5 July 1907, Page 4

MAIL SUMMARY.

I Loudon, May 10. j] ' A Russian, in London, lias been lined t'lflS, or six months, for smuggling saccharin. One thousand pounds i s to l>e spent oil music in Edinburgh parks this sum- ] mer. . Dr Kulin, of Vienna, lias invented a lonipact motor ••kitchen" ear, which will adopted by the Austrian Army. It is possible to supply Mil soldiers from this car, and it can follow the army oil | the march. riie Inion-Cistle liner Armadale < Castle, which arrived at Southampton i this week, brought one of the largest shipment* of gold ever despatched from South Africa to this country. Its value was over one million pounds. A Chinese merchant of I'ekin who was convicted of murder, was sentenced to death by beiug deprived of sleep. Forwarders kept watch over him to keep him awake, and on the tenth day the murderer died. According to the Daily Express' Xew York correspondent, a man named Transier, of Bennington, Kansas, has been fined and ordered by tile magistrate to remain in bed for seven days for intoxication. A policeman escorted him to his home and put liim to bed. M. Jean Bernadon, of San Francisco, has had a nail removed from his arm which had been travelling through his body for twenty years. 11. Bernadon says he swallowed the nail while he was at work in France. A witch doctor in the Vryheid district of Natal lias been sentenced to hard labor for eighteen months for causing the i death of a native whom he "doctored" for insanity. The victim was placed in I a hole wherein a fierce fire had been kindled and water was thrown in to gencr- < ate steam. ; To give realism to the episode of the last stand of the Ancient Britons under . Boadicca against the Komans which is 1 among the most striking scenes prepared by Mr Louis X. Parker for the pageant I at Bury St. Edmunds the performers will be clad in deerskins obtained from animals that are direct descendants of I those existing at the period. i According to the North-German Gaz- 1 ette the German Emperor has acquired i the house and property in the island of Corfu known as the Achilleion, as a * residence for himself and his family. This well-known estate formerly belong- < ed to the late Empress of Austria. i The Lisbon newspapers stale that the < Brazilian Government has invited the < King of Portugal to visit Rio de Janeiro in May, 1908, on the occasion of the centenarv of the opening of the Brazilian ports to foreign trad?. A member of a Detroit church bought a phonograph and sang into it his three favorite hymns, '-Rock of Ages,'' '"Lead i Kindly Light." and "N'earer my God to i Thee." He left a request that the phono- t graph should reproduce his voice at the graveside. In accordance with his < wishes the dead man wag allowed to sing ( at his own funeral. t The third officer, apprentice anil three I Lascars, of the crew of the British steamer Kilbiirn. frmn Harv to Toku- i yS(iia. was picket! up. April 28. in hit. 1 1<!.25 V., long. JA.II F... and taken into i Suez by the steamer liengloe. They re- f port that the Kilhnrn went ashore on April 27 in ihe Red Sea. She is hung t amidships in Ihe way of engine-room, [i badly holed, and pounding heavily. cElectric power from Niagara is to be transmitted to Toronto and towns in i West Ontario. ] For the third year in succession, the e loss on the telegraph service last vear amounted to over a million pounds. > There are still 84.000 troops under a arms in Rouinania. anil further out- a breaks among the peasants are feared. a Four naval volunteers, who formed q part of a crew of thirteen engaged in boat drill on the Tvne. were drowned bv the capsizing of their lioat. One hundred and eighty Russian revolutionists who have lieen refused permission to hold a conference in Denmark and Sweden leave for England to-day. The Canadian authorities have deported nearly two hundred undesirables and a destitute immigrants to Liverpool during a the last six weeks. o Over 10,000 banquets are given in London every year. The banquetting habit s is said to lie becoming a nuisance. s Making a new record for the Clyde, j: 3750 emigrants le:t Glasgow for Canada 'I in three liners on Saturday. i A ride of 281 miles in four consecutive g days without changing horse has been |i accomplished by Captain Chopin de la s Bruvere, of the French army. His h horse which finished In good condition, lost 421b in weight. d Signs of a new religious revival are a being witnessed in Soutli Wales, an ex- li traordinary outburst of fervor occurring t among the congregation at Aberdridwyr I chapel last Sunday. The French Marriage Reform Bill, enabling sons to marry without parental consent at the age of 21, instead of 25, as at present, has been passed by the Senate. Exports of tinned meats from Chicago fell off considerably last year as the result of the ".lunglc"' scandals, but are rapidly making up leeway, says a con- " sular report. Major-General Tiaden-Powell, speak- '' ing at Sheffield, said that, so far from it li being a 'one-man show'' at Mafeking, ' they were just a happy Tamilv, working '' shoulder to shoulder through the siege. '' As the result of a collision with the Middleslwroiigh steamer Edale on Monday in the Channel, the Whitby steamer Duke of York foundered, her erew of 2."> men being rescued by the Edale and tak- 1 en to Dover. t Although dying worth Cso,oflft. Neil ' Brodie, a Scotsman, and formerly a * preacher, was Isavs a Montreal tele- • gram) known as the dirtiest man in Can- , ada. Judges had several times con- i demned him to be wa-hed. and once I'v I fire brigade cleaned the house with a ' hose.