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Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 60, 11 September 1907, Page 4

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Loudon, July 20. I The mountain population of Merest, Dutch East Indies, have risen and burned the town of Eudeh. The death is announced of Sir William Henry Perkins, the founder of the coal-tar industry and the discoverer of the mauve aniline dye. The Admiralty has decided to reinstate the old "mast and sail" drill in the navy, owing to seamen having refused to go aloft in rough weather. Acccrding to a Copenhagen despatch, a sailing boat capsized in a storm near Marstrand. Of the 15 occupants of the bout only one. was saved. King Edward has decorated Enrico Caruso, the Italian tenor, with the Vic-. torian Order. Signor Caruso is the first singer to be thus honored during the reign of King Edward. The Bradford inland revenue authorities have paid compensation of £ll,Olß in connection with the closing of ten public houses. The report of the Inter-State Commerce Commission on the Harriman lines is regarded, a New York correspondent says, as a mild censure on the great financier's operations. A lantern parade was held at Honolulu on July 3 in honor of Prince Fushima, who arrived on his way to Japan. Ten thousand Japanese took part in the parade. John and James Gorman, two elderly brothers, who farmed near Carrigahoit (County Clare) were gored" to death on I Friday night by a bull belonging to them. The demand among the Jews for Kosher meat has led to the development of a new branch of th: tinned meat industry in Australia. It now appears that the man Alaille, airested in Paris on Sunday, did not lire directly at President Fallicrcs, bu', into the air, and that his only idea was to draw public attention to himself. Extensive simultaneous experiments are to be made in England and abroad to gauge atmospheric conditions by sending up balloons with recording instruments attached. Sir William Crossinan, the recentlyknighted .Mayor of Carditl, a stone masuu, is the first labor representative to be so honored, it is proposed at Cardiff that the citizens should purchase an annuity for Sir William. "The Cry of the Children" has received a painful illustration in a case which came before the Swansea coroner. The death of a two-year-old boy was certified to have been caused by chronic alcoholism. The Rev. W. Manning, vicar of Leytonstone, declares that the bishops arc out of sympathy with the life of the age, and pleads for closer personal relationship between the bishop and his clergy, llerr Rudoli Martin, of the German Statistical Ollicc, the author of a book tending to c.vatj bad feeling between Germany and England, has been provisionally suspended from his duties. Disciplinary proceedings have also been opened against him. A Winnipeg despatch states: Thirty Dukhobors (the Russian religious sect), most females, clad in nightdresses, have left Reasone, and arc marching south. They appear to be suffering from religious mania. Over 100 million coins were struck at the Royal Mint in I'JOO according to an official report, and the weight of gold melted was 234% tons. There was an unprecedented demand for copper coins, attributed chiefly to the development of tramways and slot machines. It is estimated that there are sixty million pennies locked up in these slot machines. THE KAISER AS A SEA LORD. In the first week in September the German active battle fleet will assemble at Wilhelmshaven for a special series of manoeuvres. At the conclusion of the exercises, wbich are expected to last only three or four days, the fleet will be reviewed in the Bay of Jnhde. While the fleet is at sea it will lie under the command of the Kaiser, who is the nominal chief of the German navy in peace and war. BALLOON EXPLOSION. At Ascq, a village near Roubaix, France, a balloon which had just descended to the ground exploded, the accident being due to the carelessness of a smoker. Twenty persons were injured, in ten eases seriously. So violent was the shock of the explosion that many others were thrown down. LONDON MEAT FRAUDS. Bu.'nos Ayres newspapers report tlie detection of a fraudulent system of importing tuberculous bulls. It appears that infected bulls were bought cheap in London and afterwards had tulierculine injected into them, with the result that the symptoms of the disease were concealed so long as the effects of the injection lasted. The frauds, it is said, have been going on for a long time. Several arrests have been made. ANOTHER THREATENED WAR. Advices from Central America and Mexico agree that a war between Salvodor and Nicaragua is probable at an early date. General Christmas, an American by birth, is in command of the Salvadorean army, while General Chamono will probably lead the Niearaguans. It is expected that General Cliamono will proclaim himself provisional President of Nicaragua at an early date. STEAMER STRIKES OIL. The British steamer Cuban while in the Gulf of Mexico started to suck up oil through the feed pipes of the toilers. As the story is authenticated, there appears to lie little doubt that the steamer passed over an immense oil spring under A NEW VERDI OPERA. It is announced from Milan that Hie score of a Verdi opera, the existence of which was not previously suspected, has been discovered in the Villa Verdi ?..t Santa Agata. The famous composer, in liis will, requested that a cabinet full of papers sbould be destroyed, but the request was not complied with, and it was in this cabinet tliat the score was found. It appears to be an early work. Musical circles are greatly interested by the report of the discovery.