OUR MAIL BUDGET.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 254, 20 October 1908, Page 4

OUR MAIL BUDGET.

London, August 28. The Canadian general elections are to be held on October 28th. ■Wireless telephones are to be usj(l in the Oman manoeuvres. Six mm were seriously injured in a dust explosion in a Liverpool cake fuchundred Boers with horses and cattle have trekked l'row the Transvaal io East Africa. A bolt o£ lightning from a clear sky killed thirty-two sheep in one flock on the farm of Michael Moon, Ohio. Miss Elsie Kay, a member of .the "Gay Gordons" Company, has eloped from Dublin with the son of a millionaire. 'ilr. licorge Stubley, ,1.1'., of Carlton, Yorks, who died leaving 208,000, began lite as a bov in a woollen mil). Representative city merchants declare that the bad conditions of the carpel trade are owing to the dumping if foreign goods in England. Last year showed a. decrease of 14,(1? I in Ireland's population, the number of emigrants having more than balanced the excess of births over deaths. it is estimated .that about 3(i,00D m.ii will be needed to help with the Canadian harvest—lD,ooo lor Manitoba and 17,000 for Alberta, and Saskatchewan.

A former assorting teller of the United States Sub-Treasury lias been arrested on a charge of stealing £.'14,001) from the Su'b-Treasury. lu addition to the tax on all incomes over .tall, the Cape (Government introduced further taxation proposals, including graded licenses for importers and licenses (or agents oi foreign iirms. it is stated that Mr. Wilbur Wright, the American aeroplanist, will shortly endeavour to )lv from Calais to Dover, and perhaps from Calais ito London, in Ids aeroplane. The King and Queen have sent donations of .£IOO each to the fund organised by the Mayor of Wigan in aid of the sulferors by the disaster at the -Maypole colliery. There has been a good deal of criticism of the action of the Trustees of the National Gallery in paying £25,000 for the i'rauz Hals picture, which they have acquired. It is expected that an area of about 250,000 acres will be drained in the liig (.Irass Marsh, by Lake Manitoba. All will be ready for construction work next spring.

A large motor garage which was in course of erection at the Hotel Ifoyal in St. Evian, •Switzerland, collapsed, killing seven workmen and injuring )5

Although imprisonment for debt luu been abolished, more than !)000 person* were seiif to gaol last year for contempt ol court in failing to obey orders to pay.

Four army corps—100,00(1 men—will lake part in the French military manoeuvres this year. This ivill be the largest number engaged for seven years. Canadian and American restrictions havu materially assisted ill bringing about an enormous dlecrease in the emigration tigures for the lirst seven months of this year. The discovery of 'a woman's dismembered body iu a .thruiik .in an hotel at Marseilles has led lo the theory that the man Tasso, who murdered her, is also responsible for two other mystciious death s that have taken place'in his hoU'l.

With one exception the last paddleulti'ol on nctivu sorvici', tlu v Koval vaolit' Oslborne, pisses out of llie Xnvy.' iicr timbers are rotten, and soon she ' be to Weil .to Felixstowe dock ty. 'i.. broken up.

A report issued by the Hoard o'i A ,„ i. culture sl.ows that fuur-iifth* of "heat consumed in England abroad, and l that this count)- v j* .fimost t ; o ( Hll;ipp|y H ' lldC ' nt U " foa,i SUITS for her the "arref S *"*?. hlwwt in v 1H s I,( 'l'dinand Karle, a wealthy Socialist ar'j 4t 011 „ "i* Ms wi after beinw?! 1 ; M ' U " llom 1,0 •Utci- |,L,,'-" r c ' l '' l ''- v ,lis fu ' st Olnim el ,«l l,u> enoimous jy JntHun (lud;j destined for the port ot T;'allin>, Peru. and worth pro."('.IOO,IKIH, put back to London, to new holding gear. "«j I' a million allowances under the '■K Age il'ensions Act have to be grant''t., :,L l 1"' beginning of next vcar. The ". ,-antie task of investigating these '•■laims has been imposed upon ollicers of thti Inland lievenue. who have been warned that all leave will be .stopped after October 1.

'I hi- Figaro stall's that a contract 'ris been si-iu-tl for the immediate install,i- ---: tiun on the KiD'el 'lower and on the Moti rojiolitan Liiv ImiKlinir in New York of apparatus intended for tin- establishment of communication by win-less telephone between Paris and Mew York. All spei'd records on the IVnnsylvan'a Railway were broken when a special train ran from I'icivetown to Warsaw, a di.-Uince of nine miles, j'n four minutes. Tli,. object, of the run was to test the bridges iuid equipment. ni,t * lliose hurricanes to which the Labrador roast is su fretjitently sub-, jtTi. has brought disaster on the New-' t'oundlaiid boats. nearly -iO vessels lining wrecked or driven ashore. Nets mid utlicr gear io the value of thousands of dollars have been destroyed.

"We can dn better still," was th.s comment of her captain oil tlio Liisiiiuiia'.s latest feat- in record .breakin;'. -Not only lias the crack C'miarder crossed the Atlantic in the quickest time known—t days 15hrs—but s he achieved the best clay's .run (CmO knols), the J.ct hourly speed, and the best average ncr hour.

I'robably a, , M 'ore of workmen were killed ami nuuiy were terribly maimed in the collapse- yf a wall of a 'brick lioiim' at Chelsea, near Boston. Xhev were en 3l «-ed in reconstructiu.r the n liici, was one of those destroyed in Ihe lire of a 'few ""nillis since, Miieu a third of the tovijj "as rawd to -(lie ground. So far .I'll bodies have been recovered. Seven of the men were 'fearfully maimed. Seve'ileeu are 4UI unaccounted for. ]