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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 53, 27 March 1909, Page 3

A WIIALKIfS ADVKNTUUKS.

The whaliiijtjf barque lieluga arrived at San I'r«iiK*isc<i recently, after tin eventful voyage. Tlie captain uf the Helnga reported that lie had lost- four of hi* crew, ami oil September 10 pieked up live frostMlten and delirious castaways, the survivors of the crew of Ihe j«'reiu'h ship William Boyle, whieh was wrecked two days earlier by collision witli an iceberg. Despite the care of the men on the Beluga, these li\e, who had enduredi terrible snlVering*, died and were buried on Hess<'l Island. OIV I'ualaska the J'»eluga was surrounded by icebergs, ami was partly dismasted Ijy a fearful snowstorm. Captain I'ower had to he lashed to the wheel in order to navigate the vessel through the bergs. , Six of tlie crew were hadlv frostbitten, I and one died.

A large whale was sighted on October 2i>. Five of the crew, manning a yawl, drove three harbs into liini, but the whale, thrashing the water into foam, smashed the boat and drowned three

It wii-a so cold in Denmark in 14015 Hint the -wolves could not stay then*, and crossed to Jutland on tlic icu, Bouinania is the most illiterate country in Europe. Out of a population of 0,000,000, nearly 4.000.000 neither writv nor road.

The sllipl>iiildin«--c.\c]iiding warships! —output of the t'nited Kingdom last year was only 0*2!l.0li0 tons, against 1.007.81)0 tons in 1007. In East India the natives And amusement In [pitting flghling-tMi against each other in the water, as Culmns and others fight gamecocks. Statistics of life insurance companies show that in the last twenty-five years the average length of a man's life lias increased two Whole years—from 41.0 to 43.0 years.

The Kmneror of China. Kins Menelik of Abyssinia, Hie Ameer of AMtaiiNi 'i the Saltans of Morocco and Znn/.il r. and t'lie Khedive of Egypt all maintr.in astrologers,