MAIL NEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 256, 22 October 1908, Page 4

MAIL NEWS.

London, September 1. The Ki.ig has given £SOO to the victims of the Stamboul lire.

During 11)07 40,000,000 feet of timber was felled in tile United Slates. The New York buaeoall uv<uu una made a profit of £40,000 during the past season. The Japanese Government have determined to curtail naval expenditure for the next Hvc years, j • A'uother year of prosperity is predicted by financiers and bankers in America .

Three wouren were killed by a landslip during a storm at Ticino, in Switzerland.

The Earl of Galloway has sold 10,403 acres of his Wigtownshire estate for £250,000 The Franco-British Exhibition is to lie permanent, and next year will be called the International Exhibition. President Roosevelt will be accompanied by Dr Kainsford, an eminent physician, on iiis hunting trip in Africa next year. • i

An experienced Liverpool laborer has declared that sixty thousand, ol the jnhaibitaats of that cty are in a state of eonii-stamtion, ■

Japan has decided to curtail expenses to the amount of £20,000,000, of which 30 per cent, relates to tile army and 10 per cent, to the navy. In the first six mouths of this year there were 41S cattle drives and seven-ty-five cases of firing into houses and at persons in Ireland. Fifteen persons were drowned and several dwellings were washed away by a cloudburst at Folsom, 'New Mexico. About 1500 miles of ucw railways wiH be ready for use for the handling of the crops in Western Canada this year. In a light between two bunds of gipsies at Lodosa, in Spain, yesterday, two men were killed and seven injured. A theft of jewellery, amounting ill value to £2OOO, i s said to have taken place in the Caledonian railway station hotel, Edinburg, A Chester lady has left £IO,OOO and five freehold houses to her housekeeper. There are 30,000 hop-pickers starving in Weald of Kent in consequence of lack of work caused partly by the recent gales. Liners hound for the United Stales are so full of returning Americans that double prices are oflered for berths, and rich men have had to sleep in the stcerThe stockholders of Arthur Guinness, Son and Co. are to receive a free gift of £2,500,000 in addition to the 27 per cent, paid on the ordinary shares this year. ' For Western Australian railways ail order of 15,000 tons of steel rails has been booked by the North-Eastern Steel Company, Middlesborough. The King lias named his colt foal, liy Cyllene—Nadejila, Dorando, after the Italian who so nearly won the Marathon race. Belonging to an English company, the Hotel Metropolc at Las Palmas, Canary Islands, lias been destroyed by fire. The loss is estimated at £BO,OOO. The session of the International Women's Congress opened at Geneva on Tuesday tinder the presidency of Lord and Lail.v Aberdeen. The National Leagues of Crete and Bulgaria were admitted. Mr. R. M. Coulter, the Deputy Post-master-General of Canada, has been appointed Commissioner to Australia in the interests of the All-Red steamship project. The test of Ihc railway conciliation agreement will come in October, when the conciliation hoards will meet to consider the counter demands of the companies and the men. Prince Francis of Teck, as chairman of the Royal Automobile Club, appea's to motorists to raise less dust, take more care in driving, and not arouse the prejudices of the public. 'i he Republican candidate for Governor of the State of Vermont, U.S.A., has been elected as signifying the election of Mr. Tait as President in -November.. A young man, who described hims;Mi as an engineer of Rugby, fired tlrree shots from a rcvolvpi- on the iloor of the Stock Exchange. No one was injured.

Two new steamers are now hoin-r built for the White Star line, which will be longer, broader, and deeper than the. Eusitania and the Maurelania. but. if is not intended that m spcc"(l {fclfcy sluntlil e<Ti|>siv t)|,. new C uitiinlers. '

Five hundred veterans of thij African Will- Ikivc notilied tlio Vauadian , Coveriiincnt thai llu-y wilt .uwp| the oiler ~r a free -jrant „f :j*i - llcVps ,| f liu „, • ta « l1 '« noHh-wost ai.il settte there' Count Zeppelin pr0p,,,,, |, v the national tnml which is befng- raised toi IdiH ami otlivv rcsoim-es to form a limited liability company in order that ! Ins experiments j n aerial navigation may not he dependent on his own life. he..,, heard of the ISriti di our-niasted ship Toptelh since, she left 1 ort talbot with a crew of twenty-six "'«■ «>"< < l <""■?« of eoal for Toeopill.i, t lull, on March •>. Mr. "IJill" McDonald, Ur rears a lexas ranker, has accepted an invitation Iron. Mr. lioosevelt to accompany him on the shooting trip to Africa. lie says that, the I resident has promised to »o ibenrJliunling in Texas next winter. ' 'Passengers by ||„. |)„vei-l Istend niair steamer limy now wireless lelr-' grains aI. I lie rati, of three-halfpence it word lor (he lirst ten words, ;ui,J .' penny lor each subsequent. word. I'onrteen lives and property V ;i' |„ ( .,1 1,1 been lost Pj" A„. ;lM<l "H"' l ' I'laees in (leor-ia. ;,s ""7 1 - f 11 " i.:;!' I,e l „ V' : | M; '' r 1 ' 01 '" I lives ' S ''"limale,! ;,t.. L . 2lllHI | l , l I lie worst slorm »C ferent v* rs j r.""H 1 e coast (his we,.,: \ '-J/ I :l ' M' ( - wis wreckt?' 1 „»• n.o .y.r i,; 1.; .hundred excursionist ""r'." ''"'-rv,.,"r 1 i I'lTlltle e.Njii'rieiice t1r..,,,,,. > ' , ,|' T r- ».«