MAIL NEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 61, 21 October 1907, Page 4

MAIL NEWS.

I -11 V~, ~ Lon,lon < August 30. I me battleship Commonwealth, which sustained serious damage l>v ruimiii" Jgruuml in. the Clyde, was refloats bv <&fc* e r« J ™ I f >i,lg un ' son 011 lllc Qfiiwutk has made a record in naval gunnery by scoring nine hits in 4oaecs. from a 12-pounder quic-k-firer. Bradford is to have a Lord -Mayor iu recognition of its position as the metropolis of the woollen industry. The American Postmastcr-tieneral has perfected a scheme of penny postage for European country having direct steamship commuiiittldn ' with the United States, j A lion *hich was on hi an amusement resort near Pittsburg, U.S.A., esqaped from its cage on Tncsday nighty creating a panic aumiiff th,. spectators.. It waslinally killed ljvv. policemen and trainers. ' An interesting dress exhibition, such as has never been attempted in London before, will be held at Earl's Court next year. The report of tlic inspector under the Inebriates Act is a strong argument fit favor of the committal of irredeemable drunkards to reformatories. The committee of architects appointed by the Dean and Chapter of St. Paul's to investigate the condition nf the cathedral reports that the structure i-. iu no immediate danger, but requires careful watching. Another attempt will be made to salve the treasiye which sank with JI.M.H. Lutine off the Dutch coast pi century ago. by means of a new type of submarine. Four sons at a birth are reported from Bromberg (writes a Danzig correspondent), the mother being a workman's wife •who has already had ten chililren. The record price of £llOO wns paid by an American breeder for an imported JKrtehire boar at an auction sale at St. Louis.

A' Vienna greengrocer named Dolm.il, who was arrested on a charge of uttering counterfeit coin, confessed that in the past ten years he had manufactured more than" £4OOO worth of base money. The police are uncertain whether .Mr Fluder, the paymaster of H.M.S. Assist anee. from which £2OOO has been stolen, has eloped to America or has drowned himself off Gorleston. During Jijly 151 persons were sentenced to death by the Russian courts martial for political offences, and 108 ! executions took place. In June there were 110 death sentences and 30 executions.

The strenuous life is killing men at such a rate in Chicago that Health Commisisoner Evans predicts that the city will become an Adamless Eden. Five men die to every two women. By the Canadian food inspection law. ■which coversi the .eniire process of meat* packing for expert, all lines must bear ; the Government stamp ajid the words, /'Canada, approved."' ; ; ; A company lis beinfc? formed in New ;York, with a' capital of £10.000,000. to j develop oil lindfc in Mexico, to compete j with the Standard Oil Company in European markets. * Eighty caifrs of small-pox in Vienna | f)B ten days Jiave led crowds to besiege •the free vaccination- station. Lymph fpave out, and the doctors had to order jfresh supplies by telegraph. I I A race between two four-masted ships Sfrom Honolnlu to the Delaware break'mw;'ft''dfetailW of i4.7flft miles, across the two oceans, has ended in a deadh* ves&eU sailing in bow to bow across the breakwater. Anti-negro riots are feared in Southern Georgic (C.S.A.), in consequence of the murder of three Government officials by a negro ex-soldier, who is now being pursued by bloodhounds.