NEWS BY MAIL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 360, 11 April 1910, Page 7

NEWS BY MAIL.

SULTAN IN A FURY

MULAI 'IIA FID AND THE FRENCH ENVOY.

TROIT.LE AHEAD.

Tangier, February 11

Mulai Hafid, the Sultan Ims set France at defiance. It is believed that lie has mistaken the tolerance of 11. ■Piehon, the French Foreign Minister, for weakness, and lnv acted aceonliuirly.

Ben Abdullah, who arrived at Fez from Paris, where he had arranged the terms of the French loan, presented the document for signature, but the Sultan

flew in a passion and tore it to pieces. He declared that lie would lie subject to no "condition," and ordered the envoy to leave his presence. News from good sources affirms that the Sultan, in an access of fury, subsequently dismissed the members of the French military mission which ha? been engaged ill instructing the Moorish soldiery. When M. Gailland, Consul for France, wrote to the Sultan, enqun - ; into the matter, his Majesty returned the letter to the French representative ■unopened. Mulai Hafid has also imprisoned the native secretary of Commandant Mangin, of the French Army, who lias been in Morocco from the days of the bombardment of Casablanca.

WOMAN CHAINED TO A BED.

DISCOVERY BY A FAMOUS DE-

TEC'TIVE.

Paris, February IT.

M. Haniard, the head of the Paris detective force, has been occupied today with what he declares to be one of the most extraordinary cases which have come under his notice.

i He was notified yesterday that a ■ Paris tradesman, well known in the | particular quarter in which he lives. ! was keeping his wife in rigorous imprisonment. When M. Hamard went to the shop to-day and forced his way into the living rooms he found the woman chained to her bed and nursing an infant .three months' old The woman had a dog collar fastened round her neck, and was fastened to the bed by two chains.

HIS SECRET HOARD,

RECOVERY OF A LOST SEAL RE STORES £040,000.

Berlin, February 17

The Lokananzeir states that the action bvoucht by Turkey against the Deutsche Bank to recover the fortune deposited with the hank by the exSultan Abdul 'Haniid has been settled by agreement. 'lt appears that the secret seal of the ex-Sultan which was lost during the occupation of Yildiz Kiosk by the troops of C'hevket Pn.sha, and without tl).e production of which the hank refused to pav out the denosit. has been found. The secret deposits of the ex-Sultan in the Deutsche Bank are stated to amount to £(540,000 The Young Turk fparty discovered the fortune after the revolution, through the medium of a letter sent by Abdul ITainid to the bank.

NEW LAND DISCOVERED,

DR. CHARCOT'S REPORT ON HIS EXPEDITION.

Paris, February 17,

Dr. Charcot, the chief of the Frotv.:h Antarctic expedition, has sent a t°kgram to his wife from Punta Arenas, in the Magellan Islands, announcing the discovery, of a new land. His ship, the Pourquoi Pas, arrived at Punta Arenas er route for home, after encountering heavy gales. The members of the expedition suffered many hardships. Dr. Charcot, in Lis message, says:—

"I believe I have fulfilled to the best of my nbilitv the scientific mission confided to us by the Academy of Science. After a serious stranding, we continued towards the south-west of the charting of the coast of the Antarctic land, whioh .we 'began during ouv preceding expedition, aB far as Adelaide Island, a very curious island, seventy miles long. To the south we discovered a vast gulf, and charted 120 miles of new land. "We next reached Alexander I. Land, which was the principal object of our expedition. Returning thereupon to the north, we went into winter quarters at Petermann Island. "The wind was relatively mild, but •painful. The weather was frightful. The ship sustained considerable damage, and several men fell ill. "The second campaign included work in the South Shetland s, notably on De ception and Bridgeman Islands. Then, going south, we discovered a new land, and again found Pe'er I. Land. We cruised between latitude OOdeg. deg. south as far as longitude 126deg. west. We had dreamed of doing more; but we have done our very best."

PARIS TO LONDON BY AIR,

EXPERIMENTAL VOYAGE TO ES-

TABLISH A SERVICE,

WHERE BRITAIN IS LAST,

Paris, IT

A group of Frenchmen ar» pn-pnrmg a'peaceful invasion of EngUnd by ui: ; - gil)le balloon. The plot is being hiiMiod in Paris, its authors being a group of aevomuiiie enthusiasts. They have formed eslves into a company, wlm M. C."idargv at their head, and have puvch-i«-ed a steerable airship rf :ho Z.;«l:actype. M. Caiv.lavgv sanl T n-chy tnat Wv intended shortly to start on an expedition to London with tiiis baUon-i It is intended to make stops at Calais, Dover, and possibly other places, and after London has'been reached it is proposed to push on to the north of England. •M. Candargy says that hn lias written to the Dover Town Counefl for a landing place, and the French Minister of Marine has .promised a torpedo-boat escort. It was intended later on, said M. Sandargy, to establish a regular line of airships between Paris and London. 'At present they were fitting out only a preliminary trial trip. The number of diiigible balloons and aeroplanes possessed by the Governments of European countries are:— Dirigibles. Aeroplanes Germany .... 14 5 Italy .. 3 7 France 7 29 Russia 3 0 Austria 2 4 Spain I 3

HER DEAREST DEER

REINDEER BOLTS WITH LADY SKI-ER.

Geneva, Februarv 14.

Mrs. AulTm Ordt, an expert ski-er, had an exciting experience at St. Moritz yesterday with a runaway reindeer, one of a number imported recently from Lapland by a hotel proprietor. Mrs. Ordt received permission to drive the reindeer around the ski course at St. Moritz. and all went well until she approached the winning post, when the reindeer put up its head and dashed up the liill at terrific speed, past the Grand and Palace Hotels, and through the streets, regardless of pedestrians. At last the. animai stopped from exhaustion in front of the Ku!m Hotel. Mrs. Ordt pluckilv held the reins during the reindeer's mad flight, and guided the sleigh so carefully that she avoided the accident which seemed inevitable to the spectators.

A WIFE MURDERER

ACQUITTED BY MARRIED MEN.

Belgrade, February 14,

C'rozius Makitch, of Losnita, ■when charged .with wife murder, this week, insisted on heins tried by a jury of married men, and made this appeal:— "Let each of you probe his heart, and ask himself if he can honestly condemn a sufferer who put into action the thought that has often crossed the mind of husbands less tried than I have •been."

C'rozius was acquitted by the jury.

NEAR VIEW OF THE AI.PS.

AERIAL SERVICE FOR AT LUCERNE.

TOURISTS

Lucerne, Februarv 13,

Summer visitors to Lucerne this year will be able to view the lake and mountains from an airship, the Lucerne authorities having made arrangements with the Astra Company of Paris to establish an aerial service there on .Tune 1.

Two airships of 7000 and 4.100 cubic, metres respectively, the former to carry fifteen passengers and the latter eight, will be ready on that date, and will, it is hoped, make trips from Lucerne. The construction of the two airships has already begun, and sheds are being built at Lucerne for the balloon. The capital of the company is £24.500.

STITCHES IN HIS HEART,

REMARKABLE SEQUEL TO AN ATTEMPTED SUICIDE. Vienna, February 13. A young man who tried to commit suicide in the Court Opera. House under dramatic circumstances last night is now in a hospital with several srlw»es in his heart. It is p( ssihle that he may recover.

Immediately after 'tlh'e -curtain descended on the last act of "Rigoletto'' last .night the audience in the opera house were startled to hear two shots fired in an upper box.

The attendants who rushed to the box found a .young man in evening dress lying on the floor with two wounds in his chest. He was hurried to the hospital, where the surgeons found that both bullets had perforated the heart.

Although there seemed little likelihood of his recovery, the surgeons decided on an operation, and the perforated heart was carefully stitched. The wounded man rallied well, and to-night the surgeons are hopeful that this remarkable operation may prove successful. The identity of the man has not been ascertained . He left a memorandum askincr that the announcement of liis death he sent to a former sweetheart, who lives in Budapest.

A MEAN ACT.

HEROIC BOATMAN ROBBED

Paris, February 11

George Stockman, a riverside boutman, who has several medals for lifesaving, was walking home by the banks of the swollen Seine two nights ago when sudden] heard cries of "T am drowning! Help!"

Seeing a mass .floating on the water he threw off his coat and plunged in. When he reached the object he found it was onlv a sack, of shavings. When he reached the river bank again he found that thieves had rifled his pockets and stolen a gold presentation watch and 255.