MAIL NEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 60, 6 August 1907, Page 4

MAIL NEWS.

SI MM Alt V OF WORLD'S fJAPPKX--INOS. London, June l.">. Mr Andicw Carnegie lias pieaeuUc Dutii(Vim!iitp with a seliool „f textile iu dusiry, ti> u> ; t tll.iNXl. Mr \\ ihi.nn Waldorf Astor lias ju-1 distributed URI.UOO among four i-oiului liurities. An ohm f oi mother in religious ' u n >■> (siys tlm liishop uf Livi'ijouli worth it [><>iiii>l uf priest. Manoeuvres based oil the nl I'llArthur will be f-aninl out in ih,- nei-li uorhoml ot ( hat hatil during -lulv ami August. iiUssia inori' than anybody would ucl- •' '"'l <>"dcrsianiliiig between tierhmii> and Civat Britain! tin; detachment of liftv Iv'viitii'u soldiers who were recently hist "in the Kirdoi'au desert. twentv lour 10-t i if ii I In- in;iy.u- and mimicipalitii sof : ,v, i lim town, in tl„. Department of ileraiilt have resigned in order to lone the li-'vernment to accede i„ the winegrowers' demand-. **~LiiikiiL.'il at between CJO.Omi and £B<UNM> was iloiie In- tlie cvclone at Karachi. Half the eiaft in harbor were sunk, says the liombay Gazette. ••lohami tlrtli." the cousin of the Kni|HTor uf Austria, who mysteriously disapi»'ar«l iu Ism. i, reported to have arrived in France from l:io de la Plata. (■our hundred cyclists, summoned at Urieiine i.u- refusing to pay a new tax. to which they object as unjust, wii! ride in procession to the law court, ivrites a (Jeueva correspondent. Wilfrid tirainger, ot Kedbauk, New lersey, killed a barmaid, and then committed suicide because he could uut be jerved with the drink that he wanted. I'riiK-e Henry Frederick of Prussia, the Kaiser's cousin, was [icrsonally degraded iy llis Majesty, expelled from the Court, ind banished from Germany for the rest >f his life.

A motor car overturned while descending !sun liising Hill, Warwickshire, and Mr Harry Johnson, an American tourist, was killed. His wife and three others su-tuined terrible injuries.

Tin- editors of Japanese newspapers have licen olliciaily advised tu abstain from ti«* publication of inflammatory article Oil the American question. Five people were killed yesterday by an earthquake, which occurred at Yaldivia. Chili. Tlfe custom house, the pari-h church, several houses, and two railway bridges were destroyed. Ihe I nimi .lack Club, which it is hojH'd will be free from debt when the King o|tens it on .July Ist, will be the "lost palatial building ever erected for the lienetit of sailors and soldiers. Professor Pickering says the old theory 01 the moon as a worn-out cinder where nothing ever happens, must he discarded. There is proof, he says, of prescnt-dav lunar activilv as well as •vidence of vegetation. -VII the hundred lxiys who last year made the voyage round the world on the ocean training ship I'orL Jackson lave obtained birth, twenty-one of them having been engaged 011 Cunard liners. '' '-'""bin, the millionaire of Washington, has married Anna J.arsen Peterson, formerly a domestic servant. Born in Sweden of peasant parents, she no"- become- the mother-in-law of the Karl of Oxford, wiiose wife is Mr C'orbiiH daughter. The wearing of badges with the word armed' will shortly lie made coiiipul- | -ory in the Southern American State of Alabama, telegraphs a Vew York correspondent, for those who earrv wonI pon*. I Detectives pounn-il upon a mail carrying a suspicious-looking parcel and waning at flip door of the church which Mr J. I). K.iekefcller attends. First soaking ii in water, the detectives opened the parcel in a cellar, and found si\cravats.

111 Kokoma, Indiana, there was a famous dog which, because of its wisdom, was named Socrates. Tt died, and has bwn given a public funeral, which was attended by the city officials. busines* men. ami a number of women. Judge Scully, in declaring a case at U'wse County Court, said lie should like to see a law pas-ed rompelliiu those actually running a business to put up their own names. It was not honest for people to trade in the names t»i other*. A municipal Schnlzahiilinik (school dental clinic) has been opened iu tli German city of Freiburg.' The dentists at the head of the school examine all the children in the citv, both in their homes and in the public schools. I lie King has not onlv won the! IVrhv twice, but al-o the St. Leger and Kdipse Stakes twice as well "as the One and Two Thousand Guineas, the Ascot Gold Cup. the .Manchester Cup and the Graud National. the whole exceeding in value Eino.OOO.

Mr Birrel docs not think that the state of Ireland so far warrants the enforcing of the Coercion Act. He stated in the Commons yesterday that lie std! ha- confidence in the ordinary law, properly and impartially administered, to maintain order.

The [lit of the tanners' wives of America i- declared by President Room*velt to be a liarder .me than that of the hire,! l„-lp. With all his belief that the natural occupation for women is that Ot a hoinekeeper. he admitted that there was much which the average husband could do to make the life of his wile brighter and happier. Retails of an extensive Hindu plot to inveigle Mahommedans into an antiRruish movement are now emerging in Calcutta, where the police have seized a quantity of compromising correspondence with Hindu leaders in the house of reakut Hassain, a paid Mahommedan agitator, telegraphs a Simla correspond-