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Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 61, 28 November 1907, Page 3

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Loudon, October 5. Austria is in the throw of a grout strike of railway men for higher wages. A revolution has broken out in mu province of Corrientes, Argentina. In London, as in Manchester, a brewer has been chosen as the next Lord Mayor. Three hundred and fifty tons of atones were removed from the streets of Belfast during the recent riots. Mr. Winston Chrchill says the days are past when employers can refuse to acknowledge trade unions. Mr. Carnegie has given £IO,OOO for a technical college at Aberdeen. The tat electric tramway in St. Peterburg was opened on Sunday. The refloating of fun Czar's yacht, the Standart, which went aground, cost £14,000. A Bradford lady and two boatmen have been drowned by the upsettin» of a tourist boat at Killarney. ° Statistics show that there are now 25,134 fewer acres of potatoes in Ireland than there was last year. The Boers have secured a majority in the Transvaal Legislative Council through the appointment of two of their number to Jill vacancies. The first full-sized gyroscopic railway will be built in India, and Mr. Louis Brennau is now completing his experimental t work for it. Twenty-eight lives were lost in the recent storm in Newfoundland. The Government have purchased 12,000 acres near Loch Awe, in Argyllshire, to be planted as a State forest. For stealing a piano from a New-castle-on-Tyne house a man named ltobinson has been sent to prison for six months. Gloves have gone out of fashion for evening wear, and special cosmetics are being used to whiten the arms and hands. A new drink, called "Hiawatha," is being sold in Oklahama, U.S.A. It consists of beer flavoured with peppermint, soda, and rum. A farmer of New Cumberland has died from swallowing a clinical thermometer, which he placed in his mouth in order to ascertain its temperature. Five persons lost their lives in a boating disaster, which occurred in .a fog in the Orkney Islands.

The Christmas pudding this year is likely to be a costly affair, as the rise in the price of raw materials is already equal to 5d a pound of pudding. The Swedish Yacht Club of Copenhagen is willing to challenge the New York Yacht Club for a race for the America Cup. Negotiations are now in progress. Germany has decided to transfer the headquarters of the fleet from Kiel to Wilhelmshaven, which is only 18 hours' steaming to the English coast. The prospect of Mr. Roosevelt being nominated for a third term as President is being seriously discussed in America. The American Consul at Lucerne reports that 40,000 American motor oar tourists on the Continent this season spent £4,800,000.

Rand coolies arc being engaged to remain in South Africa for another three years to build the Benguella Railway for Portuguese contractors, who will repatriate them. The American State Department has started a school for consuls, and all newly-appointed officials are required to attend it for thirty days. The Admiralty is experimenting with a mechanical apparatus, which, if successful, will abolish manual labour in the stokeholds of naval ships. Thirteen of the crew of the French barque Leon XIII., ashore off the coast of Clarel have been rescued after 48 hours of hunger and exposure. Nine men are still on the wreck. The Emperor of Korea has issued an edict, under Japanese supervision, announcing that he will cut off his topknot, and calling on all other Koreans to do the same.

Fran Feige,. a German woman, was executed at Grnne, Germany, on Wednesday. She had murdered eight persons, including four relatives, by administering arsenic. Many foreign spies have flocked to the Grampians, and the most stringent precautions are being taken to guard the secrets of the aeroplane. During the past twelve months 1514 miles of railways have been constructed in Canada, and there are now 3000 miles of lines in course of construction. The speakers at the opening sessions of several of the London medical schools predicted that the private medical practitioner would soon be replaced by the public health official appointed by the State. Russia's two record Dreadnoughts are to be 25,000 tons each, the "Ellas" said yesterday, with ten 12-inch and six 8incli guns, and crews of over a thousand. A colliery manager was fined £2B at Bridgend, Glamorgan, for having inaccurate plans of his colliery, by 'which 20(1,000'/ tons were taken from an , adjoining colliery belonging to the King. General Botha was presented at Pretoria with his portrait, a piece of silver plate, and. an album containing 300,000 signatures, in recognition of his services

to .the Transvaal. Twenty-six fishing vess»ls which went ashore in the Newfoundland gale are being towed off hy M.M.S. Brilliant. Twenty-eight lives were lost, and damage was done to the amount of ,£40,000. A penal colony for loafers is proposed as one of several amendments the Borough Council of Camberwell propose to the Unemployed Workmen Act. Twelve thousand people are homeless in the city of Malaga, Spain, and vicinity, in consequence of the floods. Many vineyards have heen ruined in the valley of Herault, in, Southern France. The Lisbon newspapers publish extracts from the Portuguese South African press commenting on the lack of cordiality which Lord Relborne is stated to have shown in receiving the Crown Prince of Portugal. Evidence of the severe depression from which Natal, in common with the other South African colonies, is suffering is afforded in the fact that the rateable value of Durban has decreased since last year by over half a million sterling. Fresh defect* have developed in Winchester Cathedral. Complete repairs will cost ,€70,0(10. The British colony in Brussels have .formed a committee for the erection of an equestrian statue of Wellington at Waterloo.

Tlio Novoe Vremya, commenting on the Anglo-Russian Convention, says tluil Ormnny is now Hie only serious menace to the peace of Europe. "Plenty of good meat is. to my mind, the best aid to longevity," said .Tames M'Opjjor. of N T ew Hampshire, U.S.A., who has just celebrated his 106 th birthday. M'Tlrogor eats not less than y»lb of meat daily, rind has never had a day's illness in his life. Three hundred new golf clubs came into existence in the United Kingdom hist year.