MAIL NEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 60, 3 September 1907, Page 4

MAIL NEWS.

0 ! SUMMARY OF THE WORLD'S HAPPENINGS. London, July 12. According to the British Consul at Frankfort, Germany is experiencing so great a trade boom that there are practically no unemployed in the country. A large foundry collapsed at Philadelphia. and forty persons are reported to have been killed. Fifteen bodies have been recovered. It is estimated that there, are about 150,000 motor cars registered in America, the annual cost of buying, working and repairing the vehicles exceeding £20,000. Belfast merchants whose carters have joined in the strike drove their own goods to the docks and railway stations. The Union Jack from Nelson's flagship, the Victory, was sold for 120 gui-nease-ai Mr Stevens' rooms.

Two mysterious French naval mishaps —a fire on a battleship and the flooding of a submarine—arc believed to be due to wilful malice. Three German students who climbed a peak in the French Alps without a guide fell over a precipice and one of them was killed.

From 1908 to 1911 Russia is to spend £3,100,000 per annum on warshinps and armament.

The Clyde is to liavTS the advantage cf another industry, the Government having decided to establish a torpedo factory there. Mr Pieter Nelson, whose death, at the age of 107, is reported from Worcester, Cape Colony, and who fought in the earliest Kaffir wars, is believed to have been the oldest white" 'subject of the King. Mr Alfred Billson, M.P. for NorthWcst Staffordshire, died suddenly in one of the lobbies of the House of Commons on Tuesday night. Mr S. F. Edge has offered £IOOO for the use of Brooklarids racing track next year to attempt lOOjniles an hour for 21 Hours.

The magnificent McKinley t<smb, in which the late President McKinley and his wife are Tjuried, will cost £IOO,OOOO. It is rapidly approacHlng completion at Canton, Ohio.

The charge against General Sir George Corrie Bird of converting to his own use £ll4 belonging to the Soldiers' and Sailors' Families' Association was withdrawn, and the general was discharged. A prominent Wall street banker is having built in the country a house 'f which the outer walls are composed of blocks of glass, which will allow the light to pass through. During service at a church in Georgia news was received that a negro had attacked a white woman and lied. The entire congregation left the churcli and pursued the negro, whom they captured. A height of over two miles was attained by a balloon in which Mr Percival Spencer ascended Irom Manley Park, Staffs, yesterday. The Ward liner Monterey, which arrived at New York from Cuba on Saturday, was badly damaged by fire while lying at the Quarantine Station, and, in order to save the vessel, the captain ran her ashore and opened the sea cocks. The cargo, which was valued at £140,000, will be practically a total loss. A telegram from Piatikorsk, in the Government of Terek, states that a party of tourists, including Miss Constance Barnlcoat, a New Zealauder, left there on July 9th to make the ascent of the Elbruz Peak (18,525 feet) and of other mountains which have not yet been climbed by British tourists.

The well-known racing yacht Hamburg, which recently beat the Kaiser's yacht Metetfr, was totally wrecked during a storm, in the course of a race between Heligoland and OstcnJ. The lifeboat was lost, two members of the crew were thrown overboard and drowned. The skipper and the owner of the yacht, Hcrr 'Tietgcns, and the rest of the crew were rescued.