NEWS BY MAIL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 99, 4 August 1910, Page 7

NEWS BY MAIL.

ABSCONDING BANK CLERK'S SUICIDE. NEW YORK HOTEL GUESTS WITNESS THE TRAGEDY. , "■ — • i New York, June 11. ] The young Belgian bank clerk who re- 1 cently disappeared from Brussels committed suicide in an hotel here yester- i .day evening at the moment when the J police were about to arrest him at the < request of the Belgian Consul. He was < charged with embezzling £12,000. { Standing, at the head of the main j staircase leading to the lobby, the man 1 suddenly whipped out a revolver, and 1 j before he could (be seized shot himself in 1 > fte head in the presence of a large num- 3 ber of hotel guests. He was conveyed to the hospital, where he died. \ Among the man's effects were found a « draft for £IO,OOO and a bank book show- t ing that he deposited £9200 in a bank yesterday. In his pockets and lying in < the. hotel vault in his name was a fur- 1 ther sum of £-2000, besides a quantity c of valuable jewellery.. t « — ■ t EIGHT WITH BULLS. e THREE MEN GORED TO DEATH AND 1 40 OTHERS IFJURED. t '■__■■ h Lisbon, June 13. * A bull fight entirely without precedent * . occurred yesterday at Pelayos, where I there is a large cattle ranch for the '*> breeding, of fierce Spanish bulls for the * carious Sunday contests in Spain and r Portugal. . t Herders were engaged in separating h the bulls, and driving them into enclo- Cl sures, preparatory to shipping them to P I Madrid and Valencia, when a large g wooden stand, in which were many spec- k [ tators from the surrounding 0 suddenly collapsed. j Over 100 persons Were thrown among a the bulls, which stampeded around the tl eliclosUl'c, trampling and tossing the vie- v, tinis, si Ten courageous "cowboys," armed with 0 shotguns and rifles, jumped into .the si arena and fired repeatedly at the bulls tl which :werfc charging into the crowd. * t! Three men were gored to death and a forty other spectators injured before the « bulls had been placed under control. Six ii bulls were. shot. n — a GENERAL BOTHA'S AMBITION. SOUTH AFRICA'TO BE EXPANDED IN ALL DIRECTIONS. k h Pretoria, June 15. 0 General Botha, in. his speech in the n Opera House here last night, said that «: he aimed at expansion in all directions. He declared that his policy would secure a stability and certainty hitherto * unknown, thus ensuring increased invest- B nient of capital and helping South Af- a, rica to become self-contained. He de- ci sired— ' ri The harmonious co-operation of le Church and State. s] Application of scientific "methods in q all professions and industries. '■•'.. .-. itl .The establishment of sound finance.:-a: Economical administratioji. -\ u The placing of agriculture on a much . higher platform than hitherto, thus in- a: ducing settlement on the land. it Part of his ambition was to see a de- a fence force of the greatest possible n strength representative of both races. b Last night's meeting marks the birth la of a new party, absorbing Het Volk, ri Orangie Unie, and Bond parties. There w are therefore now two great parties in o South Africa, namely, the above-men- a: tioned party, which will be known as si the South Africal National Party, and tl be led by General Botha, and the Union- fl ist Party, led by Dr. Jameson and composed of the united Progressives. 3] 300 CONVICTS MUTINY. £ si 57 KILLED AND WOUNDED BY THE a GUARDS. h a Lahore, June 16. S1 A tragic riot occurred at the Fatehgarh ° Central Gaol on June 7, when from three J? to four hundred'criminals attempted to £ storm the main gate. . Ignoring the warning of the authorities, they showered brickbats on the guards, who fired a volley, cheeking the _ rioters. Two further dangerous rushes jj were made, and the guards fired again. Seven rioters were killed and fifty wounded. ' { f BEAUTY CLAD IN SNAKE-SKINS. THE LATEST VAGARY OF 1 FASHION. i < London, June 17. 1 ' "The autumn will bring the snake-skin 3 dress into fashion. Mr. Gerrett, tV.e ori- j i ginator of this development, says its ad- j! ■ vantages are more manifold than would 11 appear at first glance. I: "Marvels can. be achieved by the py-1 ' thon's skin in the hands of a clever designer," he said, "for this skin never j pulls nor gives. It is both water-proof i and pliable, and it can, by skilful mani-' pulation of its woiKleruil scale marking. I bring into prominence a pretty point or 1 hide a defect. By using the python's I .skin for. footwear a foot can be made I I i'smaller, or it can be given breadth or (tapered to a point. Then why should not an entire figure be modelled on these f lines—breadth here, a slim waist there, 'attention called to a pretty waist, or I angular hips transformed into beauti- ' fully rounded ones by the magic aid of 1 python's skin? ! "Not only will women benefit by this idea, but the python's skin should make men's golf shoes impervious to weather, furnish lapels and cuffs to motor-coats and make elaborate waistcoats which will not wrinkle and which will disguise rotundity. I have already many orders for python shoes, and many exquisite shoes this autumn will be made in grey lizard, but for absolute smartness no-( thing will approach the gorgeous skin of the python." j SENTRY SHOT DEAD. '(REFUSED TO ANSWER CHALLENGE I OF A COMRADE. Paris, June 16. ! A sentry shot another sentry last night at the military camp of Massillian, I near Nimes. I Maurice Bves was on guard near the * powder magazine when the victim of the j tragedy, a comrade named Susini, left ! his °po st for a reason which will never be '' explained, and when Bres challenged him I did not answer. « After calling out to him three times, u-,"Who "oes there?" and adding, "Answer e-!or I fiTe!" Bres shot Susini through the j heart.