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SOUTHERN CROSS LOST. "OONCLUSIVE EVIDENCE." ? despatch from St. John' Newfound- ,.04, atatea that Captain Windsor, of the tteamer Bloodhound, reports that while (teaming eighty milee south-east of Cape Race he saw a quantity of wreckage on the outer edge of the ice which included flag-polea, gaffe, and other fittings of a sealing veeeel, together with a number of seal pelta. The wreckage was spread over three mile., while black objects were seen which are now thought to be bodies, says the Montreal correspondent of the Daily Telegraph. The report is taken as conclusive evidence that the sealing steamer Southern Cross foun- dered off Cape Pine in the great gale of March 31st. when so manv men of the steamer Newfoundland were killed. The disaster to the Southern Cross will leave 275 orphans and seventy-eight widows. Cables received at Montreal state that the widows and orphans, as a result of the dis- sarous blizzard, will number between 8W and 1,000, while 250 men have been lost.

BURNING ALIVE. GIRL'S ABNORMAL TEMPERATURE. According to the St. Petersburg GatetU, there is a girl in Kiev University Hospital, lying ill with typhoid, whoae temperature ia to abnormally high that it has actually "broken a thermometer which WM capable of registering up to 113deg. Fahr. The attempt to take her temperature waa made, says the Daily Citizen correspondent, with an ordinary Centigrade clinieal thermo- meter marked to 45deg. (113deg. Fahr.) The mercury quickly reaehed its greatest limits and the glass was shattered. Professors Obraszoa and Janowaky subsequently took the girl i temperature with a special thermometer, which recorded the heat of the girl's body as being 181deg. Fahr. They declare that she still retaine consciousness, but is practically burning alire.

FOOTBAIJL FAMILIES. FATHEB AND TEN SONS BEAT "ALL BROTHERS" TEAM. Two football teams, each composed of mem- bore of one family, played a match at Wills- bridge, near Bristol. On one side were eleven Hunts, of Pucklechurch, all 'brothers, and on the other eleven Millers, of Brisling- ton, composed of a father and ten sons. The latter won by one goal to nil. Th-e ages of the Hunts total 216, and those of the Millers 314. On the same ground ten years ago eleven Wrens opposed a team of local referees, three generations scoring for the family, who won. The Wren who then kicked off was either father, grandfather, or great-grandfather to some member of the side.

GRAND STAND DESTROYED, SUSPECTED INCENDIARISM. The best stand of the Hull City Second League ground and a portion of the adjoining stand were destroyed by fire about one o'clock on Tuesday morning. The wooden and iron structures blazed fiercely, and the firemen had to leave them to burn themselves out. The offices of the club, in which were stored all the books, documents, records, and other property, were destroyed. The fierceness of the Are may be judged from the fact that the turf for a quarter of the way across the ground was destroyed. The origin of the outbreak is a mystery, and there is nothing to indicate that it was the work of Suffragists; but it seems to have started simultaneously at the turnstiles and near the offices, and incendiarism is sus- pected. The damage is covered by insurance.

BITTEN BY A PYTHON. 1XCITING SCENE AT A THEATRE. >fr. Seidell, the amateur siiake-charmer, who appears in "Kismet" at the Globe Theatre, has had an exciting adventure with a python. The particular python had only tist arrived from India, and is supposed to are been fed shortly before its arrival. It is Dot customary to use pythons for show pur- poses until four days after they have been fed. The snake had hardly taken its place round Mr. Selden's neck, ready to go on, when, says the Daily News, it had a violent attack of ataga fright. It indicated this by biting one man in the arm, sweeping its length at the limbs and faces of everybody within reach, ad generally making Its,-If unpleasant. Actors aad -stage-hands rushed wildly for safety, and the snake-charmer, before he could seize the oack of the spitting and whirling creature, was bitten rather badly in the hand. It meant a tig fight for two men to get the reptile back into, its- basket. Fortunately pythons are not poisonous, and the bites have not resulted seriously.

PRINCE ATTACKED BY BAND OF MEN. Prince Keresselitze, a wussian oi novie family, is suffering from severe injuries as the result of an attack made on him at Geneva. As he was returning to his flat late at night a number of young men set upon him and a nocked him unconscious. A revolver was tired, and the police, hearing the report, aaic-v arrived, whereupon the members of 0? band fled. There was no attempt at rob- berr although the Prince carried a large sum, ana the assault, says the Daily Chronicle cor- respondent, is believed to have been made from political motives..

JUMPING FATALITY IN PARIS. For the first time for many years a fatal "accident occurred on Monday morning at the one ours Hippique, although not in the pre- enee of the public, and not in the course of ..ay event, says a Paris correspondent. A oang dragoon was putting his horse over a otr when the animal blundered, striking the part so hard that the bar swung round and "truck the rider on the forehead. He was car- ried to the infirmary, but died almost imme- diately.

A CITY WITHOUT FLIES. new police regulation baf been issued in Vienna forbidding the scattering of rubbish in the streets. It is evidently the ambition of the municipality to banish the last fly from the city. A fly even in August is a rarity. This state of affairs, says the Daily Mail eorrespoindeat, can only be attributed to the prompt work of the municipality in removing all refuse.

BULLDOGS FOR AMERICA. White Marquis, the famous bulldog which was bought by Mr. Ritchie, of Hoffman House, New York, will be shipped on Satur- day by the Manret?ma. He will be accom- paÎlied by a miniature bulldog, Newington Bonny Girl, which has been sold bv Mr. Walker to Mr. Horrox, of Broadway, New York, for 150gs., a record price for a miniature. MATRIMONIAL INTRODUCTIONS. an:i: ■ All classes suited. Particulars free in plain >n^fJcT UtrtWy. IL ar&IR. AIF!Sg.f

NEWS IN A NUTSHELL. Princ-e Leopold of Battenberg, King's Royal Ri.'r-s, has be^n posted to the 1st Bat- talion at Alderehot. Preside t Huerta persists in his refusal to salute ti American flag, and the entira Atlantic I et has been ordered to Tampico. The situat: > is regarded as exceedingly serious. It is a;:i ouueed that. Prince William of Albania int-- is shortly to proclaim himself King. In the Fuu-e of Commons on Tuesday Mr. Asquith took the oath and his seat on his re- election for E.fst Fife. Sir Frecit:\ek Bridge, organist of West- minster was married on Tuesday at the Abbey to Miss Marjory Wedgwood Wood. Well over 4,000,000 passengers were carried on Bank Holiday by the London Underground and its associated" motor-'bus and tramway services. Sergeant Fitchie, of the London Scottish) made the record score for this season of 101 at Bisley on Easter Monday. Mr. Samuel stated in the House of Com- mons on Tuesday that he hopes to be able to introduce the Milk Bill shortly, but could not name a day. At the Easter vestry at Crowland Abbey, Lincolnshire, Miss Hill was appointed sexton at the Abbey, a position which has been in the Hill family for over 200 years. The Royal Commission on the Civil Ser- vice suggest ways of preventing jobs," re- commend that more women should be em- ployed. and that they should be paid more, and put forward a new scheme of grading Government clerks. Carpentier, the French champion heavy- weight boxer, beat Mr. George Mitchell, the English amateur, in ninety-five seconds in Paris on Tuesday night. Wednesday was the second anniversary of the loss of the Titanic. Mr. and Mrs. Winston Churchill were enter- tained at dinner at the British Embassy in Madrid on Tuesday night. Harry Thaw, the American mii'lion.aire who killed Mr. Stanford White, the architect, and who is now in prison in New Hampshire, has been granted a writ of habeas corpus. Two motor-cyclists, Ernest Mays, of St. Albans, a'nd Hugh Clemand, of Edinburgh, were found unconscious beside two machines on the road near Coppull, six miles from Wican, on Monday, and were taken to Wigan infirmary. Mr. McKenna will be the guest at the annual dinner of the Eighty and the Cam- bridge University Liberal Clubs, to be held at Cambridge on Saturday, May 9th. A passenger on the Cunard liner Ausonia, which arrived at Plymouth on Tuesday from Portland, Maine, was robbed of two 500dol. cheques during the voyage. The Queen has sent a hamper of primroses for the patients of the Royal Hospital for In- curables, Putney Heath, of which institution she is patron. Harrow County Seouts have arranged for a party to visit Germany. They will live in the open in the Black Forest, and will be the guests of German Scouts. The driver and fireman of the Flying Scots- man were killed and twelve passengers in- jured in a colli'ion at Burntisland, near Edin- burgh, on Tuesday. Acton Burnell Hall, the Shropshire seat of Sir Walter Smythe, hai been destroyed by fire. Sir E. Carson has attended an insctiop of Ulster Volunteers in North Down and ad- dressed the troops the spirited terms. Wrecked six weeks ago on Drake's Island, Plymouth, the schooner Erna has been re- floated. At the recent (board of guardians election at Willesden only 33 per cent. of the elector- ate voted. The Clothworkers' Company have for- warded a donation of £ 50 to the Royal National Lifeboat. Institution. East and West Ardsley Urban Council have approved of a scheme for the running of trackless cars in that district. So that children may be induced to Way by the sea, the West- Hartlepool Corporation has decided to reduce tramway fares in their favour. Donations of £ 7,000 and £ 5,000 respectively have been given by Mr. George Clark and Miss Finnie to the Kilmarnock Infirmary Ex- tension Fund. The police have been as yet unable to trace the owner of the car which knocked down two cyclists, killing one and injuring the other, at Lewisham on Saturday. The Independent Labour Party at their Bradford conference have passed a resolution against "Cabinet rule," and directing mem- bers representing the party in Parliament to vote in accordance with the party's own prin- ciples. The great rose plantations have now been laid out in the gardens of the White City, Shepherd's Bush, where the Anglo-American Exhibition will be opened in mid-May. The wife of a legless organ-grinder told a London magistrate that she followed her hus- band to a house where he was living with an- other woman, and that both invited her to come and live with them. She refused. Mr. Elcock, of Lincoln, in dressing a wood pigeon, which had been shot at Normanby, near Lincoln, took from its crop 813 whole grains of barley. Eight men. and women perished in a fire on Tuesday at the Melvin Apartment Hotel, Boston, and the building has been almost entirely destroyed. Many of the guests were trapped in their rooms by the flames. A telegram fropi Altemburg states that two French aeronauts, who descended in a balloon, afte.r inquiry were granted permis- sion to return to Paris. General Sir H. Miles, Governor of Gibral- tar, has paid an official visit to General Don Arturo Alsina y Netto, the newly-appointed Governor of Algeciras. Shridhar Krishna Kofchavle, late manager of the Bombay Banking Company, has been sentenced to eighteen months' rigorous im- prisonment for breach of trust. The Pope on Tuesday received in private audience Mgr. O'Riordan, the rector of the Irish College in Rome, who presented Ladv Susan Town-ley, the wife of the British Mini- ster in Persia. A telegram from Chicago states that the Federal Court. of Appeal has reversed the jpdgment under which Jack Johnson, the coloured pugilist, was sentenced to a term of imprisonment on- "White Slave" charges, and has ordered a rew trial. Engineer-Captain R. G. Willby, a retired naval officer, and his sister, Miss Adelaide M. Willby, who lived together, died within forty-eight hours of each other at South- ampton and were buried in the same grave on Wednesday. At St. Mary's Parish Vestry at Cowes, Isle of Wight, the first lady churchwarden, in the Isle of Wight was elected for one of the mis- sion churches in Cowes. Mr. William Harrison Aineworth, for many years Midland Railway parcels agent at Bir- mingham. died on Tuesday at the age of seventy-one. He was closely related to the famous author of the same name. Suicide during temporary insanity was the Terdiet at Birmingham on William George Roberts, an insurance broker, who, suffering from slec'>le8snet56, took a large dose of vero- nal with the intention of destroying himself.

SEPOY RUNS AMOK. THREE BRITISH OFFICERS KILLED. Having a grievance in the fact that aedue- Having a grievanc in the fact that deduc- tiom had been made in his p?y in connection with work on the railway, a Mahsud orderly ran amok at Tonk, says a Simla message. Using a Mauser pistol, he shot and killed Lieutenant G. W. C. Hickie, o.f the Royal Garrison Artiilery, serving with the 32nd Mountain Battery, and Captain G. B. Brown, of the Waziristan Militia. He also wounded Major G. Dodd of the 27th Punjabis and four men before he was shot dead. A despatch from Simla on Wednesday stated that  also died of his wound5. that Ma j or Dodd had also died of his woun d s.

MORE MOTOR-CAR FATALITIES LADY AND BOY KILLED. The steering-gear going wrong at a sharp horseshoe curve in a narrow road over the River Coquet, near Alwinton, North North- umberland, a motor-car containing four people pitched down a steep bank into the river on Monday evening. In its fall the car turned two somersaults, but landed on its wheels on the river bed. Of the occupants, Mrs. Mildred Legard, a young Lincolnshlre lady staying at Longframlington, Northum- berland, with Dr. Fenwick. was fatally in- jured, though she was not thrown out of the oar. Miss Alice Fenwick, daughter of Dr. Fenwick, was rescued from under the car with a broken arm, while Major and Mrs. Bell, who completed the party, escaped with a shaking. A three-year-old boy, Frank Watkins, of Milnrow, near Rochdale, died on Tuesday soon after being accidentally knocked down by a motor-car. His five year-old brother, knocked down at the same time, was treated at the surgery of Dr. Wilton Mills, the owner of the car. At Thorpe Arnold, near Melton Mowbray, Mr. Arthur Cordingley, a woollen manufac- turer, of Pudsey, in Yorkshire, was motoring through the village, when a boy named Horaoe Woodcock, six years of age, dashed in front of the car after his hoop, which he had been trundling in the streets. His skull WM fractured, and death was instantaneous.

DANISH KING AND QURRN'S VISIT. TO ARRIVE EARLY IN MAY. The King and Queen of Denmark, travel- ling on the Danish Royal yacht Dannebrog, will land in England on the morning of May 10th, and will arrive in London on the after- noon of that day. They will be the gueste of the King and Queen at Buckingham Palace for four days. The official visit terminates on May 13th. but according to present arrange- ment-a the King and Queen of Denmark may remain in London for a couple of days longer as the guests of Queen Alexandra at Marl- borough House. On May 12th the Danish Sovereigns will visit the City and be enter- tainad at luncheon at the Guildhall.

A POSTAL "CHARTER." EMPLOYEES' LATEST DEMANDS. In attempt to insert telephone workers" in the title of the Postal and Telegraph Clerks' Association was defeated on Tuesday at the conference at the Caxton Hall, West- minster. The Association framed a permanent con- stitution," in which are the following demands: Securing of full civil rights and full rights of trade unionism. Pay in accordance with increased recog- nition of the value of the Post Office work to the Community. Advancement with the rising standard of life, and the addition of increment when a knowledge of a foreign language is essential to the performance of duty. Where conditions are equal, pay to be aqual irrespective of sex. Promotion to be based on seniority, effici- ency, and good conduct. A forty-two-hour week; time allowance for all duty worked between 8 p.m. and 6 a.m. to be fifteen minutes per hour. Optional retirement at fifty-five years, or after forty years' service; compulsory re- tirement at sixty years.

OIL IN SOMALILAND. ESCAPE OF OIL PROSPECTORS. That mineral oil has been discovered in Somaliland is reported by the special corre- spondent of the Daily Express. The analysis of samples sent to London, he adds, has shown that the supply will prove to be considerable. The oil was originally discovered by )fr. H. M. O'Byrne, the Chief of Customs. He had heard that shepherds and camel-drivers in the interior of Somaliland were accustomed to treat sores and wounds on their beasts with black earth when unable to procure tar. Mr. H. T. Burls, the mining expert, who was then sent to the locality, had a narrow escape from death. He left Dagah Shebeli on March 12th, and, during the same night, forty dervishes came right across the scene of his investigations, killing whoever they met, with- out regard to age or sex.

QUEEN ALEXANDRA DAY. Queen Alexandra Day has been fixed for June 24th. Local centres have already been arranged at Liverpool, Manchester, Edin- burgh, Sheffield, Cardiff, Nottingham, New- castle on Tyne, Wolverhampton, Bolton, Stoke-on-Trent, Bury, Harrogate, North- Stoke on Trent, Bur  orcester, and other ampton, Yarmouth, Worcester, and other large towns throughout the country. Last year iE24,008 was collected in London, whilst £ 25,000 was the total realised in the provinces.

THE BUDGET POSTPONEMENT. It is understood that to meet the conveni- ence of both sides in the House of Commoas, the Budget statement will be postponed from next week to some day in the week following. Though he has recovered from his recent throat trouble Mr. Lloyd George is anxious to spare his voice at present, while Mr. Austen Chamberlain, to whom, as ex-Chan- cellor of the Exchequer, it falls to lead off the debate on the Budget statement, cannot attend the House of Commons next week.

TRACED BY BLOODHOUNDS. Bloodhounds have been successfully used to find a missing woman in Breconshire. Late on Monday evening it was reported to the police that an aged woman from Vennyfaeh, near Brecon, was missing, and the constable in charge of the bloodhounds attached to the Breconshire police took the bounds to the old woman's bedroom. The dogs got quickly on the trail, and about midnight led their keeper to rocks overhanging the River Usk. A few yards lower down the woman was found in an exhausted condition.

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SEARCH FOR MURDERERS. MEN WANTED FOR FRENCH CRIME. Scotland Yard detectives are making thorough search of Soho and other parts of London for two men who are wanted on suspi- cion of having committed a murder in Paris, says the Daily Express. This man-hunt is a sequel to the recent murderous assault on a woman named Wal- ters at Southampton-mansions. One of the two men is the well-dressed Frenchman who savagely attacked her with a life-preserver, after getting the maid out of the flat by a pre- text, and escaped with a quantity of silver. A description of the man was circulated by the police, and after some revisions had been made, based on further inquiries, it was dis- covered that he is identical with a man known as "George the Boxer," who is "wanted," with a man nick-named "Ralph the Fool," by the French police for a brutal murder com- mitted some time ago in Paris. Detective-Inspector Nicholls immediately took up the inquiries on behalf of the French police, and is conducting the search in co- operation with the Bow-street detectives who are still engaged on the Holborn outrage in- vestigations. The real name of George the Boxer" is George Maurice Hainaux, and he is also known as Henri Gilbert and Max." He is a young man, about 5ft. 6in. in height, and a fact which may be of great value in establishing his identity is that the index finger of his left hand has been amputated He has dark brown hair, blue eyes, and a full, clean-shaven face. The second man, Ralph the Fool," is also known as "Old Ralph." His real name is Raoul Jean Pinsolle, and in his case the police have only a meagre description to guide t'i e m. He is twenty-eight years of age, oft. 5in. in height, and thick set, and he has a slight brown moustache. Both of the men are of French nationality. =

AN INCUBATOR BUSINESS. ALLEGED PARTNERSHIP FRAUDS. A story of alleged partnership frauds was told at Willesden when Maurice Stanton, a chicken incubator manufacturer, of Avenue- road, Acton, was charged with obtaining large sums of money by false pretences. De- tective Rowbottom, who arrested Stanton on a warrant, said the latter had advertised for partners in an incubator business. By this means he got into touch with a man from whom he obtained ZCIOOI but no business was done. Later he obtained £ 75 from a Mr. Drmmock and £ 5 from a Mr. Wingfield. The business, said the officer, was quite fraudu- lent. Stanton was remanded in custody.

TERRIBLE PARACHUTE FALL. During an exhibition of flying a,t Vienna on Sunday a parachutist named Bourhis jumped with his parachute f.rrm the aeroplane of an airman named Lemonier when at a height of 1,300ft. The parachute apparently failed to act properly, and he was precipitated to the ground, breaking both feet and receiving serious internal injuries. Lemoniers machine lost it", equilibrium through Bourhis's leap and also fell to the ground, the airman being seriously injured.

A i n I It ■ fell down the stok-ehohl ladder in the r-niisc-r Hawke at Chatham on londa v aId picked up dead. Sunk in a storm in 1738, a Russian worship named Moscow h:1." been found in 30ft of water near Libau, on the Baltic, and her gun." are to be recovered. R;ilph Lewis, aged twenty-six, a photo- grapher, of Fulham, has been sentenced to three years' penal senitude at Berks Quarter Sessions for obtaining mall sums from over 100 servant girls on the false pretence that he was going to supply them with postcard photographs. Lewisham Guardians have decided to pur- chase 200 Bibles for the use of patients in the infirmary at a cost of kl4). One Guardian de- clared that the expenditure was "a waste of the ratepayers' money." A fire which broke out on Monday at the basket works of Messrs. Darlington and Sons, Enfield Lock, spread rapidly and only the walls of the premises were left standing. The firemen had difficulty in saving some adjoin- ing houses. Thirty-four robberies of jewellery, worth in all £ 285, were admitted by Walter Powell, who was sentenced to twenty months' hard labour at Dover Quarter Sessions on Monday. He had prior convictions at Liverpool, Car- diff, Woolwich, and elsewhere. It was stated in Portsmouth on Monday night that the stokers of H.M.S. Zealandia, who were punished on a charge of insubordi- nation, have been released. The Catholic Herald announces that the Rev. J. K. McDowell, until recently Vicar of Barrington, Cambs., has been received into the Roman Catholic Church at Cambridge. Thirty-two persons were killed by motor omnibuses and ten by electric tramcars in the Metropolitan Police district during the first three months of this year. Norfolk Council has decided to leave the brown linnet out of the list of protected birds, owing to the great damage it is doing in the county to the musta.rd and turnip seeds. The winner of the first prize in the Italian national lottery— £ 12,0-00—is a peasant living near Rome. Dr. W. L. Bovie, in the course of a demon- stration at Cambridge, Massachusetts, boiled an egg resting on a thick cake of ice by the application of ultra violet rays. Two prisoners escaped on Monday from the Borstal Institution at Rochester and attempted to swim across the River Medvay. They were recaptured by a warder, who waded into the mud after them. New Zealand Arbitration Court has granted 9. six-day week to hotel workers and an agita- tion has begun throughout the Dominion for the extension of the principle to all seven- lays a week occupations, including the police force. It is not possible to give the date of any further distribution of assets by the Birkbec-k Bank," said Mr. John Burns, President of the Board of Trade, in Parliament. "In any case it would not exceed a few pence in the pound." Damage amounting to nearly £ 3,000 has been done by fire in a stationer's 6hop at Sun- derland. Two Old-Age Pensioners, the man aged seventy-eix and the woman, a widow, aged eighty-six, have been married at Little Down- ham, Norfolk. Costing £ 80,000 to build, the new bridge across the River Medway will be opened next month by the Countess of Darnley. Willesden Distress Committee have lent to enWgrants during the past. eight years LI,189, only CI58 of which has been returned. As the commencement of a garden village to be established near WrexhpLm, arrangements are being made for the erection of 200 cottageo. Havin.g been present at the capture of Sebastopol as a private in the 55th Regiment, William Colon, aged eighty-five, was buried at Witton on Monday. Chesterfield Rural Council have refused to grant the Sheffield City Council permission to run motor omnibuses over the Woodfaais aM Droonfleld roadt.

MAN WITH MASTER KEY. HOTEL SUSPECT SENT TO PRISON. Sentence of twelve months' hard labour v-?f> imposed at Westminster Police-court on Saturday upon a well-dressed man named Henry Joseph Adams, alias Richard McPhc*- son, on charges of being a suspected per-wi and amenable to the Prevention of Crimes Act. He was arrested at the Westminster Palac Hotel. On March 2Tth he was seen on the main staircase of the hotel, and was kept under observation. He had previously a<ske 1 one of the porters to get him some lager be r but. was referred to a waiter. He had a wash, and then was asked to go into the office. Meantime the manager had been informed of the presence of the stranger, and a detective sen* for. The officer found the man on a lounge, and asked him his business, but he declined to say anything about himself be- yond that his name was Adams. The lavatory wa« .searched, and a key discovered secreted behind a water-pipe, while in the office to which Adams was takoa a powerful new el) m found under a mat. Mr. PIargetts said the accused had an ap- pointment at the hotel with a man named Reynolds, and denied all knowledge of the key. Detective-inspector Tappenden said that not only would the skeleton key referred to unlock the doors of all the bedrooms at the Westminster Palace Hotel, but it also opened those of the Grand Hotel. From that particu- lar hotel five serious larcenies had been re- cently reported, and a few weeks ago jewel- lery valued at E,500 was stolen from the West- minster Palace Hotel. It was now known that during the previous week a colleague of the accused was there, and he, too, asked for a Mr. Reynolds. Adams was sentenced to twelve months' imprisonment at the London Sessions in 1911.

"BOMB" IN ST. MARTIN'S CHURCH. A "bomb" outrage attributed to Suffra- gettes was committed in St. Martin's Church, Trafalgar-square, London, on Sunday night. Some time after the congregation had left a loud explosion waa heard inside the church. It was found that some seating had been wrecked and a stained-glass window dam- aged. Beneath a seat was a canister which had apparently contained gunpowder.

CONFIDENCE TRICKSTERS SENTENCED. Charged as suspected persons loitering near the British Museum for the purpose of com- mitting a felony by means of the confidence trick, William Davidson, Robert Brown, John O'Reilly, and John Riley were sen- tenced to three months' hard labour tt Bow- street, London, on Saturday. John Raymond, a bookmaker, was discharged.

Mr. Beresford Turner, J.P., a local solici- tor, has been elected chairman of the newly. constituted Southampton Harbour Authority. Miss Emma Rook, a young Englishwoman was walking in the Jardin cte la Fontaine Paris, when a man snatched her bag contain ing two gold chain purses and £ 40. She gov4 chase, shouting for aid, and the thief wu arrested.

TEMPESTUOUS LOVER. MAN'S 16 WIVIS IN 15 YEARS. At Fort Worth, Texas, the trial has begun of Mr. Ludie Arnold, a rich planter, who is charged with violating the White Slave Act by marrying sixteen wives in fifteen years. Mr. Arnold, a man of magnificent physique, with wavy coal-black hair and keen blue eyes, admitted, says the Daily Mail New York correspondent, that he had omitted to obtain a divorce from any of the numerous wives, eight of whom appeared in court and testified against him. Another wife stated that he cried so bitterly because of the "death" of his mother, who wa-s in court on Friday very much alive, that she could not resist him. Ht left her a few days after their marriage. A third wife described his love making at irresistibly tempestuous.

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"HURDLE SEED." HOAXED VISITOR WHO HAD THB LAST LAUGH. CortI merchants, haulage contractors, far- mers, and horse dealers at Leighton Buzzard, in Bedfordshire, received by post at the end of last week, says a contemporary7, envelopes marked O.il.Al.S. containing an official- looking document headed Whitehall." It stated that Army manoeuvres were to be held in the Leighton Buzzard area, and it was de- sired that the person addressed should meet "one of my officers" at a certain hotel "at 11 a.m. on Wednesday next" to discuss sup plies, &c. The landlord received instructions to prepare a luncheon. All the documents bore the supposed signature of a general officer. On the appointed day the corn merchants with samples of wheat and oats, the horse dealers with their remounts," and the other merchants assembled, as did also a musician who had received an O.H.M. S." letter re- questing him to give advice as to the forma- tion of a military band. No officer came, and then it was recalled that it was "All Fools' Day. A mysterious message that the officer could not keep his appointment as he was busy sow- ing "hurdle seed" gave a clue to the perpe- trator of the hoax. A few months ago a young woman from London, spending a holiday with relatives at Leighton Buz- zard, was sent to a corn merchant for a pound of "hurdle seed." After going from shop to shop in her city-bred innocence, she realised that "hurdle seed" was only to be procured at the same store as strap oil," which in plainer ElIglish is "elbow grease." She vowed to be even with her friends and those who chaffed her on her experience, "and," said a victim of the All Fools' Day hoax, "I think she has the laugh." DEATH OF A GERMAN POET. Paul H^yI ho poet and novelist, passed away pe^.c-^f u-' y at Munich on Thursday r- n.^rnoon in V:s eighty-fc urth year. A native r' B'Tlin. It,, il:- gi-aker part of his 1;fe in the Bavarian capital, whither he was invited in 1851, by King Maximilian, who granted him a Civil List pension so that he might- devote hinu-if entirely to literature. Paul Heyse. however, voluntarily gave up the pension in 1837. In 1910 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature.

7- 7- G IA TS T" THOSE DAYS. II Two men digging the foundations for labourers' cottages at Dysart, Co. Louth. un- earthed three human skeletons in separate raves. The skull of one skeleton was whole r :id entire and measured eighteen inches from the crown to the chin. The leg bones were abnormally large, and altogether, says a cor- respondent) the skeleton appeared to be that of a person ten feet high. The remains are supposed to be prehistoric.

During the pulhrg down of Uavis's laminar -addlery and bag shop at the corner of Craven-street and the Strand, eays the Pall Mall Gazette, some interesting finds have been made by the workmen. TLese have been tramferred to the London Museum, where they are shown in the state in which they were taken from the ground, with the earth still on them. The objects are of the eighteenth century, and include a Lambeth Delft drug-jar holding about a quart and bearing the inscription" S. Chalabcat." some smaller drug jars, a couple of syringes, and several other things of miscellaneous character. Other recent acquisitions at Stafford House are a solid wood gun-carriage wheel and three stone cannon-balls ot different sizes, which were found in Galleon Reach, Woolwich. within the timbers of the old ship, which is supposed to have been either the Great Harry or Drake", Pelican.

ERUPTION OF "EXTINCT VOLCASO; I- I I I t A Simferopol (tnmea), aei-pavcn savs nun an extinct volcano aboLlt forty mile^ from t' town of Theodosia suddenly burst into tivity on Thursday", and within half an hour about twenty-five acres around were covered with lava. No lives were lost, and the village of Djavtobe, in the neighbourhood, which seemed to be threatened, escaped, as the lava moved in an opposite direction.