OUR MAIL BUDGET.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 54, 29 March 1909, Page 4

OUR MAIL BUDGET.

SUMMARY OF WORLD IIAPFKNiNi..London, February 5. The official Caceta ol Madrid suites that a happy event is expected in the Spanish liojal Family lour months hence.

]r Six men in the service of Trinity I House were killed by an expws.on oil Caister during iui attempt to oluw up a I wreck.

Excavations at the Mexican village of fxtapalapa have brought to light the remains of a man who must have been nearly fifteen, feet high. The unemployed at Bristol, who have ,been engaged on relief work s, wants to be allowed time to see football matches. A great congress of women who do not want the vote will be held on March 20th by the Women's National AntiSufirage League.

Ten thousand Scottish colliers and workmen have been thrown out of'work by the Scottish railway dispute. Twenty-four natives, who had been entombed for eight days in the Witwatersrund mine, owing to Hood, were rescued.

The Royal Commission, in a third report, reaffirms the opinion that the milk of tuberculous cows endangers human beings. I'lio manager and five directors of tile Mutual Bank, Ltd., of Glasgow, have been arrested on charges of uttering false balance-sheets.

President Roosevelt lias refused io accept a legacy of X2OOO bequeathed to him by an eccentric recluse, who recently died at Eastonville. Massachusetts. The American .Motor Boat Club has accepted a challenge from the British Motor Yacht Club tor a race fur the international Cup, which has been held by the United States for two years. (■real floods have occurred in Germany, many towns have been under water. Boats are plying the streets to supply the imprisoned inhabitants with provisions.

liadium has been lound in a rubbish heap beside an old mine at St. Ives, Cornwall, and it is probable that the old mine will become the centre of a great industry. Nineteen silk workers, including two women, who were crossing the lake of Leeco, in Italy, after visiting the shrine of a local saint, were drowned in consequence of their boat capsizing.

' British workmen a.« to tie sent to Spain to construct the new Spanish squadron, the contracts for which will be awarded to a British syndicate, headed by Messrs Vickers, Sons, and .Maxim. The steamship lleliopolis sailed from Durban last Friday with 2301) repatriated' Chinese on board.

The group of Cincinnati men who for some time have been operating a submarine coal mine ,j .Million, Cape Breton, have sustained a loss aggregating at least ,t'200,000, by reason" of the sea breaking in and Hooding the mini'.

The idea of garden cities is lieing taken up in France, and a Bill has just been (ntirooJuced providing 1 , ithat (my /ajwid with more than 10,000 inhabitants should be endowed with public gardens, parks, and other open spaces for health and recreation.

President Roosevelt has received a letlet from several Bands of .Mercy, protesting against his projected trip to Africa for the purpose of " indulging in the wanton destruction of 'wild animal i." Me has replied that the niaia object of his African tour is " sight-seeinir. not slaughter." Commenting on Mr Taft's approaching Presidency in the I'inaiicial Review of Reviews, .fudge Derrick, the future Secretary of the United States Treasury, declares that Mr Taft's habits, method's, and training guarantee four years of " wise constructive legislation that will conserve vested interests."

MISSIXC, CASHIER. A cashier of the Moscow brunch of the Rank of Russia has disappeared, lie is accused of having stolen .120,000, and is alleged to have fled abroad. Extensive frauds are reported to have tbeeu discovered in the Moscow Savings Hank, and an investigation has been ordered. CA'PTAIX COOK'S BIRTHPLACE. A picturesque ceremony was performed at .Martonin-Clevelaiiii the hirlhplaee of Captain Cook, on February 4. when two Hags received from the Vorkshiremen's Society in Xew South Wales and the children of Botany. Australia, were hoisted at the Captain Cook Memorial School. Mr Herbert Samuel. M.P.. chairman of the London committee for a national memorial to Captain Cook, delivered an address.

Ulil.iilll) ]•'())! SI'IENTE. Sir .fames Cricliton llrowae ainiouncod at a meeting of the Kovnl Institution that tlfl.lloo hail l.een placed by a lady anonymously sit tlie disposal of the manngers for tlie purpose of tlio institution. The lioyal liislilulioii was founded h 17IHI for the promotion and teaching of science. TIIKEW HIMSELF TO Tlil', S[TARKS. It was TPjiovti'il, on the arrival of Hie Xew Zealand Shipping Company's slcanier Isiiapehii at Plymouth. (Kit file of the passengers had commit led suicide on .lanuary 17. in a shark-infested sea. I His name was Thomas lintler. aged III!, of Uirmingham. A steward who went on deck- to call him for dinner miw him elinih over the rail and jump into the -ca. and when a boat was dropped a few moments later there was no trace of him. though numbers of sharks were seen.

WIUKLESS TKIJ'XSRAPIIY TX SIMPS. Tlie part played by wireless telegraph! in flic rescue of flic passengers of I lie liepdilic and the l-'lorida by the Haiti.lias brought about tlie inlroduelion of a Bill in Congress making it compulsory that wireless telegraphy shall be installed in all ocean-going vessels, linlti in the foreign and domestic services, plying between ports more than Kill miles distant, National inl.orc-t in Ui- Mill-jec-1 has been aroused at a moiiu-nt when Ihe project of the Xavv Departiuenl is announced for establishing a wireless tower in Washington as a means of communicating with ships at sea and with land stations up to u radius of 3000 miles.