SUMMARY.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLV, Issue XLV, 7 November 1910, Page 1

SUMMARY.

The Czar had a cool reception at Potsdam. (.Germany), .where there were no decorations in 'his honour. The object of the vis.it of .the Czar to the Kaiser is said to be the desire to remove causes of strained; relations and friction T> tween Germany and Russia. Twenty thousand Brifcis.li bO'il'ermaker.s are now locked ou>t, and the Society's funds are exhausted. The Tort .of London Authority now charges Is Sd a ton .on butter and Is. a ton on cheese. The landing of Prosernine Blue Jackets 011 the Persian Gulf shore was due, not> to tribal disturbances, but .to Afghan gun-runmhg. Fourteen motor ears 'have left Los Angel s (C-al.") on a dange-rou® 450 miles race across the Arizona desort. The "Soectator" sav. s that, the deI lay in the German naval pro gramme was partly due .to labour -troubles. The consumption 'Of strong drink. | in Belgium has increased 54 per ceat I in 25 years. Belgium 'has .one public-house to every 34 of the population, and 2000 deaths from excessive drinking occur annually. Six hundred patients were released i:i a snow storm during, a fire at a Manitoba lunatic asyluim, and several died. i A tidal wave in East Nome, Alaska, •'wiped out ' a settlement, rwi.fcliout warning. The Portuguese deific.it of £650,000 is to be extinguished by taxation on land, civil list economies, and collection .of taxation arrears. Raisul.i, the Moroccan chief wno had fled from his Govern'orsnip, rallied and captured the Khlofc camp a.t Alcazar. The reciprocity conference between Canada c,nd the United States tas begun. The appeal of Crippen against the death .sentence for the murder of h.is wife in London lias been dismissed. Failing arbitration, 170,000 persons will be affected by .the New York expressmen 's strike. It is stated that 3000 mpn dismissed in conection with the French railway strike have no other calling, and can find no occupation. The New South Wales Government is considering the nationalisation of the State iron industry. The French Government is offering £50.000 for aeroplanes capable of flying 190 miles without a stop. A Baltimore newspaper prize is offered for an aviation altitude of IGOiOOO feet. The U.S. grand jury has confirmed the indictment of several prominent Americans for coal land * frauds in America. The Alaskan coal land frauds involve a sum of £40,000,000. The monthly meeting of the Nelson Harbour Board was held to-day. A slvnrp shock of earthquake was. felt at Kaikoura th.is morning. By a fire at Motueka this morning, Rankin and Co.'s grain and produce store and Knapp's bicycle shop were destroyed. Further incipient fires have occurred at the Brussels Exhibition, and .incendiarism is suspected.. The yew York teamsters refuse a settlement of the strike, and rioting has been a striker being shot by the police. The further establishment of religions orders in Spain -is prohibited for two years, .pending legislation. Two French submarines collided under water at Toulon, but both, were safely landed. The Bei.t bequest of £200,000 and a W'ernlier gift of £300,000, will be devoted to the Groote Sc-huur University, South Africa. The Berlin correspondent of the Navy League says tha.t four vessels of the German 1910 programme and a 13Mi"i n ch gun have been completed, A violent stOTim played .havoc wit'.i 4 Villa Real, Portugal, 10 sail'Or s being drowned. Women are taking a prominent part in the s-trike riots in South Wales. Parliament proposes to "prorogue in a fortnight, but numerous, measures and the Iline charges yet remain to be disposed of. A riot follo.wed attempted police prevention >of Guy Fawke's Day fireworks, near Adelaide (S.A.), two ■policemen being injured. >Crew. s of the Dutch fleet were riotous ashore on the visit to Perth' (W.A.) An .offer of £1,000,000 for the Bullfinch M>ine (W.A.) has not received' consideration. The population of West Australia Is 285,904. Ir. a 'hurricane at Richmond (Q-) ail the buildings in the .township were damaged, and telegraph poles were bent double. The liner Kurdistan, from England to Marseilles, was wrecked 1 off the Scilly Isles, 46 lives being lost.