HOME AND FOREIGN.

Press, Volume LXIV, Issue 13110, 8 May 1908, Page 7

HOME AND FOREIGN.

United Prew Awociation-By Electric Telegraph-Copy THE STAR OF JAPAN. I/XSDGN, May 6. Lloyds roporte tl«Axt»*»»P«i Mote salve the Star of Japan, the hull beine already partially broken up. Two hundred brokers, owing to Uie dullness of bueinee* (have retired from the London Stock Exohange. MILLIONAIRE'S ESTATE Uβ late Mr H. L. a London financier and ph.lanthropist beside much settled P«Sf**y, ™* pereouaity to the valuo of £1,5/3,000. rriie late Mr Bischoffsheim, P]" I<in - voted a good deal of lus time to too many charities in which ho was mtoreeted. Ho presented the wood Consumption a *°, rm VwJ£s Jewish community, and the duMaene wing to Tudor House Convulescent Home in memory of his cousin. He spent some £500 «i on the mam,tenanoe of the metropolitan ambulance service which bears h* name. The Bisohoffisheim service provides hand ambulances for use in «J casee of street accidents. Scores of «- ers ere scattered over the metropolis. On the occasion of their ld «»f«j: ding, ho and his wife gave £ 100,000 tocharitios, of which £20,000 went to Jewish movements.] FOREIGN IMITATIONS. At the annual meeting of the Birmingham gun trade, strong complainita ■were made respecting importations to Australasia of 1000 Belgian guns, branded with colourable iniitations of the names of British makers. It was also stated that America was dumping guns in tlie colonies without a proof mark.

[A correspondent writes to the Sydney Morning Herald," stating that in. his district numbers of young fellows use cheap Belgian guns, at from 30s to 50s. The cartridges used , are often the high explosive variety, and the result is that accidents due to bursting 'barrels are much more frequent than they ought to be. "Now my firm opinion is that a pea-rifle i* fox less dangerous than a cheap gun. Wβ hear occasionally at the pigeon ehib of euns of world-wide reputation running up to 50 guineas 'bursting by the use of these high explosive cartridges, which, are nothing else but next to' dynamite, so what hopes hos the 60s gun got of standing those smokeless cartridges? Why does the Government allow tihe importation of these cheap, unreliable weapons into the Commonwealth?"] PACIFIC CABLE. . In tihe House of Commons, Colonel Seely, replying to Mr Bellairs, estimated the loss of the Pacific Cable for the cxrrrent year at £69,000. The Imperial Government did not propose to consider relaying the line in order to touch Honolulu, unless the colonial partners suggested it. SEVERE EARTHQUAKE SHOCKS. ROME, May 6. Earthquake shocks caused a panic among the residente of villages in tihe vicinity of Mount Etna, and damaged several nouses iat Baniavorma. SEQUHL TO THE GOOLD CASE. MONACO, May 6. Mdlle. Girandin, the Goolds' niece, has died in the Monaco Hospital in a decline, as the result of grief. CANADIAN RAILWAY EXTENSION OTTAWA, 6. Sir Wilfrid Laurier has introduced into the Canadian Parliament a Bill subsidising the construction of a railway from Winnipeg to Hudson Bay. . A FRONTIER TREATY. NEW YORK, May 6. The United States Senate baa ratified the Treaty providing for'a'joint Commission to examine the result of the recent surveys to fix the frontier line between Canada ami the United States. * THE SHIPBUILDING DISPUTE. (Received May 7th, 10.56 p.m.) LONDON, May 7. The Board of Trade Conference on the ship-building dispute, after sitting for several hoars, adjourned tall Monday. . SUPPRESSION OF OPIUM DENS. (Received May Bth, 12.12 a.m.) , In the House of Commons Mr Johnson's resolution urging the Government to take steps to speedily terminate the licensing of • opium" dens in Crown colonies was accepted by tie Government and unanimously agreed to. Sir Edward Grey emphasised the fact that remarkable results of the right kind had been achieved in China in a short time. :".■■■