BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Feilding Star, Volume VI, Issue 1760, 4 April 1912, Page 3

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

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April 3, 11.5 p.m.) London, April 3. There is more than , one aspirant in co-operation: with the Union Steamship Company fleet, with the view o,f extending its route and bringing it into closer touch" with lines trading between Britain and Australasia, arid possibly elsewhere. V NATIONAL INSURANCE. The Employers' Parliamentary Federation has arranged a demonstration of all employers' organisations to endeavour to secure a postponement of insurance until January 1, '•;'■ 1913, and to press for equitable amendments to the financial terms. PLAGUE AT DURBAN. Capetown, April 3. .There have been 24 cases of plagueat Durban since the outbreak. A FATAL ATTACK. : . . . Belgrade, April 3. . ; An election , crowd attacked Misiiitsch, one of the King Alexander, regicides. Mishitsch retaliated .with a revolver, mortally wounding three. A RAILWAY DESTROYED. ' New Y r ork, April 3. Floods destroyed a. large section oi the Chicago-fit. Paul-Milwaukee railroad. Many homes'are-threatened b} ■ 'the bombardment of ice floes- which are carried against them by the current. '■'■: RELIEF FUNDS WANTED. , Washington, April 3. President Taff is asking Congress for -£100,000 for emergency expenditure to alleviate flood danger on the Mississippi. A SHIPPING ITEM. (Received April 4, 8.5 a.m.) London, April 3. bailed—Awahou, for" Wellington. THE CHINESE REPUBLIC. 5 Pekin, April 3. . Ihe Assembly at Nankin has agreed to the transfer to Pekin. The Government has secured four revolutionary members in the Cabinet, compared with two of Yuan .■bluh Kai's nominees. HARBOURING AN ANARCHIST. Paris, March 3. Blazins, an alleged anarchist, lias been arrested on a charge of harbouring Bonnot, one of the allegeu iperpetjra|tors pi" ,the Chantilly outrage. . - Pekin, April 3. Huang Sing, Minister of War, in the Nankm Government has been appointed Chief of Staff, with headqwarters at Nankin, tlms demons tratjing the revolutionaries' determinanot to allow centralisation- in /one north to jeopardise the results attained.