NEWS BY MAIL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 250, 27 November 1909, Page 3

NEWS BY MAIL.

HUSH FOR A LOTTERY. j THIRTEEN-PARIS BANKS 01' ION j LISTS. I

Paris, September 3t>. Thirteen l'aris banks and their agencies and correspondents in Paris, all overt 1 France, and auroad, have opened their lists for the sale of 2,150,000 lbs tickets in the largest and last lottery to lie held in France. Although the tickets' themselves will not be issued until tin second or i nirtl week in October, they have already been over-.subscribed—that is lo say, tiie demand fur them already 'surpasses by several hundred thousands ; thu number which will be issued.

To prevent disappointment to those people who want a few tickets onlyinvestors anil private gamblers, that is, as opposed to the speculators who buy up as many liekets as they can and sell 'them again at a premium—the issuing banks Have made an ingenious arrangement. Each wank has set aside a number of tickets for private people. Until these tickets have been disposed of each uf the thirteen banks will guarantee three tickets to any one subscriber on payment of lUs Id per ticket. The extra penny is for the stamp on the receipt, winch will be exchanged for the ticket when issued. To-day a very large proportion of these were subscribed, ami within a week it is more than likely that the tickets will be at a premium. I If by any chance the 2,150,000 tickets |, i 1 should"not be taken up, the lottery will, 'not take place, and the money will be Ij returned. ' The iirst drawing will take place ouj sth November, in the great hull of the Credit Koncicr. The lirst prize will he ! £40,000, the second £BOOO, and the I third £4OOO. There will lie a hundred 'prizes of £4O each, and 30,0011 tickets will be drawn at £l apiece—that is to say, their holders will make -Is each. I The second drawing will take place on Christmas Evo of this year, and there will be six more drawings in 1910.

MR. WRIGHT CIRCLES THE ST.»I OF LIBERTY. SPECTACULAR FEAT.

New York, September 21). A sensational llighu by .Mr. \\uour Wright round the Statue of Liberty was a spectacular feature of the HudsonFulton celebrations to-day. During the morning Air. Wright and Mr. Glenn Curtiss Hew around Uovirnor lisland from their headquarters. Then Air. Wright started on a flight over the harbor. I 11,. at n liciirhl. nf 1-iOft ovel

scores of craft, including the outwardbound LusiUnia, and the liner's passengers, gazing upward, ihccrcil him, while the manv thousands' of spectators speculated oil the ease with which he could send the Lusitania to the bottom with a bomb. After circling the Statue of .Liberty he returned to tiovcrnor Maml, jtlie (light being accomplished at a rate of one mile in 03 seconds. •Later in the day Captain Kaldwin 'and General Tomlinson in two dirigibles I started on a race up the llud-on river jto Albany. Both airships sailed majestically above the warships anchored 'in the "Hudson, but opposite Spuylcn-

(IUVVH \.UpiU!U JJ.IIUV". n |" 'I ceased to work, and the dirigible fell into the river. , The aeronaut was rescued uninjured, and the dirigible was towed ashore. General Tomlinson's motor failed n little later, and his dirigible drifted over the White Plains and fell in a lield. He also escaped injury. FATAL DUEL IN A CARRIAGE. REVOLVERS FIRED FROM OPPOSIi.. SEATS. Palermo. September 20.

One of the uioat remarkable duels ever recorded took place near Palermo yesterday between two rich Sicilian landowners—Signer Loliianco and Sigaoi lArdito.

Idle Lwo men seated themselves opposite to each, other in a large lo.irwheeled carriage, and, having orcicci the coachman to drive at mil gain,,,, began to lire revolvers at each ouici. | When the carriage was stopped Sigiior Lobianco stumbled out mortaiiy wounded, while Signir Ardito wits found lying dead on tile lloor of the vehicle. The cause of the duel was a love affair.

AERIAL TRAMS. .NOVEL INVENTION' OF AN AUSTRIAN AERONAUT. Vienna, September 2f. A company has been lorm-id I'-ic i" exploit a system of aerial tramiar*] which have been invented by CapLum Quoika, au Austrian aeronaut. High-tension electric cables will be bud on the ground, and airships will be connected with them by means of otU'r cables, which will take the place of the trolley in the ordinary overhead tramcar system. Power will thus be supplied for driving the propellers of the airships, and in addition the ai.'jh.ips j will be kept on their right cours -an ;at a lixed height of 300 ft. j It is proposed to lay the Jirsii line between Vienna and Budapest.

MOTOR-CAR ABDUCTION. EMPLOYEE'S FLIGHT WITH A MANUFACTURER'S DAUUUTEK. Brussels, September 2'J. A sensational motor-tar abduction has caused much excitement in Brussels. A young traveller named Lewk fell in love with the sixteen-year-old daughter of his employer, a manufacturer named Hadin. The attachment was discovered and Lewis was dismissed. While the girl and her mother were shopping in a quiet street yesterday they met Lewis, who was waiting in a motor-car. Lewis at once jumped out of the, car and, seizing the young girl by her arm, pushed her into the car, despite her mother's shrieks. I

"Your daughter has eaid, 'Come along, don't worry,'" he stated to Mine. Hadin, and, taken aback, she also' entered the ear. They drove quickly into the country, and after a time Lewis ordered .Mine. Hadin to alight. When she refused he pushed her out, and she was left acme on a strange road at 11 o'clock at login.

Lewis and the girl continued their journey to Alost, where they were discovered to-day. The man was arreted, and the girl was sent back to her family. If Lewis is not sent to prison a marriage will follow, but the Belgian law deals severely with abductors. FEMALE "PETER PAN." 'SUORT-FROCKED GIRL PROVES 'l'd BE A MAKRIIED WOMAN.

Philadelphia, September i;:. A little girl, apparently no more tlmii fourteen years of age, was arrested tor obtaining goods under false pretences. and astonished the Court by confessing that she was in her twenty-sixth year. Her name is Elizabeth Stone. She i< a married woman, and has a mania iW wearing clothes only suitable for a child of twelve or fourteen years. Been use of this Strange craze she has been disowned by her father and estranged from her husband. With her skirts to her knees, and her hair done in accordance with her apparent youth, she created a lot of surprise in uhc magistrate's court, especially when she told how she had been twice married and once divorced.

She played with the children in the streets, hoop, tag, and hide-and-seek being included among her juvenile accomplishments, One of her victims was Mrs. Krushyk, the mother of a playmate To her she told a story of hemiclessness, and finally was permit fed in share a bed with one of the children. "She completely fooled me." said Mrs. Krushyk. "She acted just like a child of fourteen, and was as small, and I didn't think She was anything else, although she lived here for almost three weeks and 1 had lots of time to watch

'■She. acted just like a child would act, and was fond of every childish game. She could roll hoops with the best of t'hem, and singing games, such as 'London Bridge is Falling Down,' and others, were her delight." The news that "Lizzie" had 1 n arrested for obtaining thirteen sliilliio.'s' worili of goods from a druggis'ts firm shook the household to its foundations, and lias jeopardised its trust, in hitman nature. The firm, however, refused to prosecute, and the -woman was released.

SOLDIEISS UNEARTH £4,000,000. TKEVSUtE FROM THE RUINS OF MESSINA. | Rome, September 23. I The jewellery and other valuables 'which tlic military authorities have collected from the ruins of Messina and for which no claimants can be found are estimated to be worth £4,000,001). ! This vast collection of riches is heupcu together in the subterranean vaults of the citadel and in wooden shelters, and is entrusted entirely to the honesty of four officers, who have not even sufficient soldiers to guard the shelters. i In one of these shelters the soldiers have constructed rough shelves', on which diamonds and gold are piled in the most extraordinary manner. A small cardboard box, the size of a matchbox, contains a necklace of pearls valued at over £4000; between an old pair of boots and a pair of oars mere is a simple envelope containing Sttiie bonds of £BO,OOO made out to bearer. In another small box lies a diamond solitaire worth a fortune, which w-ts registered by the soldiers as' « white stone. Further on a petroleum can contains gold coins amounting to C2OOO.

There are also safes innumerable filled with hundreds of gold watches, rings, chains, bracelets, earrings, pocket-books, and treasures of all sorts. ; All these riches have been found in the superficial excavations carried on up to the present, while the wealthiest purt of the town—the first and second floors and tho cellars—is still untouched.

I WIFE SHOT AT HER OWN REQUEST. JPAUIS COURT ACQUITS liISBA.Nu • OF IUUKDLiI. I Paris. September 28. | Alphonse Uaudiu, a working man, was acquitted to-day of the charge of murdering his wife under extraordinary circumstances. I The man, whose record is an excelI lout oue, told the story himself in court simply and dramatically. He said: "My poor wife hud suffered agonies for many weeks from asthma and a disease ol the lungs which the doctor had declared to be incurable. Her medicine did her no good, and the evidence of her pain was I more than i could bear. , "For several days she had been begging me to kill her. One morning I when she suffered more than usual, 1 f| luuk my revolver out and asked her 4 'whether she would forgive me if I look ~ her life.

'"I will pray for you in Heaven/: [she said, 'for lending my pain. The tears were rolling down my lace, and I coud not see, but I put the revolver at i the back of her neck on the pillow and | fired. She died without a cry, and I went aud told my sister what 1 had [done and gave myself up to the police. ■"You may take my life if you will. 1 do not want it, and my conscience is perfectly clear. 1 did what my wife wanted me to do, and I do not" regret it.'

HACJi FOR LIFE, ESCAPE FROM A TORRENT OF BLAZING OIL. Vienna, September 2li. Heir von Noel, the prefect of llie Boryslav district of Galicia, lias lisul an exciting race fur life with a river ol Mazing' oil. Two earthen reservoirs containing '.IIIIKI lons „r oil were >el on lire liy a 'ihunderstorin. anil as there n.. a village in tin. neighborhood I lie prefeet wenl. to inspect the lire. While lie was, approaching it the oil suddenly boiled | ,over and rushed in a liery torrent downj [the road along which he* was walking. "1 turned to lly, and ra 1 ;■.- hard as 1 could," he stated, "hut not as fast as the stream of fire which was following; 1 me. It was almost at my heels and, still gaining on me when 1 fortunate)-1 came upon a peasant's cart at the side' of the mad. I leapt into this anil, \vhi|)|ied up the horses, whose speed |saved me." I

The prefect alarmed the village wncii he reached it. and the inhabitants managed In reach a place of safety before the stream of burning oil destroyed their homes.

Due morning recently, by the post from Jlelliounie, a letter, accompanied ■by a parcel, was' received at the Advertiser office in Adelaide. The parcel contained a pair of handcuffs, uud in the letter the writer, Ernest Ryan, requested that these symbols of the law should lie returned to the Police Department, to whom they rightfully belonged. Jtyan was known under the aliases of Jeffreys and Moron, and had been serving a two months' sentence in ■Vdelaide gaol. It was decided to rcnove him to gaol at Gladstone, and on Slth March last he was .placed on board the train for that place in charge of aj J warder. When about half the journey ! lr.nl been accomplished Ryan slipped away from the officer, "and jumped from the train at a point between lloyleton and Kybunda. The train was then at full speed, and it is surprising that he was not hurl. He picked himself up and disappeared. Canada is making a brave effort to deal with the cigarette evil iu its rclilionship to hoys. For eight mouths a law has been in force making it a misdemeanor, punishable by a line up to ,C2O, to sell cigarettes to a person sixteen years of age or under. In the six years preceding this measure the consumption of cigarettes had increased by 70,1100,000; whereas, during the past eight months there has been a decline of ;i0,00D,000. Of the domestic article 3.">4.000,000 were consumed and of the imported 12,750,0011. For the same period las'l year there were 28,000,000 more domestic and 2,000,000 more foreign cigarettes smoked in Canada. The law lias been enforced with considerable rigidity, and this falling off is attributed to this fact. The campaign which led up to the passing of the, cigarette law was carried on by the linlies of Canada, ami called for years of persistency and agitation. It has the approval of popular sentiment today. Australians are wont to boast that this is a free country (says the Sydney Daily Telegraph of 4th November). At i Clifton yesterday two hundred men i-h.iseil two brother-workers. The two men. Williams and Phillips, happened| he casually -trolling towards the rail-i iway station with two police officers. The sinkers a! once had their suspicions aroused. A rumor had been circulated! that. Williams and Phillips intended to return to work at the niino liii< week) Her,., they imagined, was the project in course of execution. Two hundred men rushed after the two. Rut, /ortunalely. the police were at hand, and protected the two men, who were, however, subjected to hoots and insulting epithets'. The women, especially, were loud in their imprecations. Hut that was not all. The president of the local miners' lodge enquired angrily of the senior sergeant ol police: "How is it that you' allow these two men to walk about the township'; They should be kept inside their houses." And this is iu a free country!

When Jlr. Sidney Kidman was in London early this year, lie yielded to I lie appeals'of a number of 'bus drivers and paid their passages to Australia, on tlic nnticrs'lamling that they would reimburse him by instalments. lie agreed to provide them with work )f| they could not find employment under some other person; but there was no agreement of any description. The men were fr.'e to accept employment any where, and Jlr. Kidman trusted to tlie'i 'honesty in regard to the monetary advance, mi conversation on Thursday last, the subject of the importation n' I'liusmeii cropped up. and Mr. Kidman was asked whether the undertaking V- ' 'proved satisfactorv. "1 am more tie" [satisfied." he replied. "They have turned out a splendid lot of men. me the married couples who were put •<■• inv station* are giving the greatest pos-t-iiilc satisfaction to itSie manager-;. Thev are far belter off here, and h am so pleased with them that when I ,mi to London again I'll bring out a lot more. One of the women said to me the other day, 'We wouldn't go back to London for anything, because we are far ■better off here.' I brought out about thirty men and -women, and iicarlv all my money has been paid back, without any bother whatever. They are the best workers you would find anywhere. Some are on my stations in Queensland, others In the'far north, and others' nearer Adelaide, and in every iiislmicr 1 can truly say T have been well anil faithfully 'served by both men and women.' Tl was a costly thing in the first instance, but, as T said just now. T. am more than satisfied, and f mean to have more of them, and they are just the sort oi ipeople Australia is badly in need of."