BRITISH AND FOREIGN NEWS

Greymouth Evening Star, 29 March 1910, Page 2

BRITISH AND FOREIGN NEWS

[I>ER PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPTIUQHT.]

EXPLORER DECORATED. Received this dav at 8.30 a.m. WASHINGTON, “March 28. President Taft, at a meeting of the National Geographic Society at Washington, presented a gold medal to Sir Ernest Shackieton. THE RUSSIAN EMPIRE. ST. PETERSBURG, March 28. The Czar has signed a manifesto commanding the introduction into the Duma and Imperial Council of a bill concerning the procedure observable in the case of laws affecting Finland only and those of Empire generally. The Finnish Diets views thereon shall bo submitted to the Duma and Councils for consideration. His Majesty is confident that the Duma and Council will fulfil the task of promoting the 'unity and integrity of the Empire and prosperity of all faithful subjects. INDIAN LABORERS. CALCUTTA, March 28.—There is a consesus of opinion here that the prohibition of emigration will be enforced I against Natal unless it ameliorates the treatment of free Indians and Hindoo. A BOYCOTT. CALCUTTA, March 28.—The Nationalists of the Punjaub have initiated a boycott of Mohammedan traders. Heavy losses are being incurred as the Hindoos generally are wealthier than (lie others. A FOOLISH GAMBLER. Received this day at 8.40 a.m. WASHINGTON; Match 28. .Coleman, a bank clerk, earning £l2O a year, was arrested at Cambridge in Massa-chussetts for embezzling £SOOO. He admits gambling at faro and not understanding tiro game. He entrusted money to a confederate who robbed him.

fatal gun explosion. MANILA, March 28. —A gun exploded on the U.S. cruiser Charleston during target practice here, killing and wounding eight men. THE DRINK BILL. BERLIN, March 28.- Germany’s Drink Bill is estimated at £145,000,000 which is twice the combined cost of the army and navy and five times that of education. A ROMANCE IN REAL LIFE.

LONDON, A larch 28.—A year ago one, Robert: Light burn, a resident of Rook hope, near Durham, received an anonymous request from Australia to search for a certain marriage certificate. He has now received £IOOO for his services. It appears that a young woman emigrated to Melbourne sixty years ago and there married a son of her wealthy employer under a nickname. A threatened lawsuit over her father-in-law’s money necessitated proof that the nickname was not the woman’s real name.

AN ASTRONOMER MURDERED. LONDON, March 28.—An unknown assassin, pretending to be a telegraph messenger, visited and shot Charlois, an astronomer, at the Observatory Alontgros, Nice, dead.

MENELIK DEAD. LONDON ,March 28.—The Daily I elegraph’s Paris correspondent mentions a rumour, from a well informed private source, that Meiielik has been dead several days. AIR BALFOUR’S HEALTH. LONDON, A larch 28.—Hon. J. A. Balfour has greatly improved in health. AN AGREEMENT. SOhlA. Alarcli 28.—King Ferdinand and his (Ministers had a series of interviews ,u Constantinople and reached a complete agreeeruent regarding, f ir-dy. the commercial treaty, and sec- ■ mdly the delimitation of the undefined points of the frontier and the further linking of the Bulgarian and 1 urkish Railways.

COURT-MARTIAL SENTENCES ST. PETERSBURG, March 28— Mi*‘ Loumnartial at Novoiossisysk, Russia, sentenced seven to death and fourteen to servitude for an armed rebellion. RUSSIAN SHIPBUILDING ST. PETERSBURG, March 28. i In l Government is introducing into the Duma a ship building programme f A* r 14 M* a rs totalling up to £75,000,bOO. Ihe Duma has been asked to ■•" to the first annual instalment. ■ -*>■ SIR ERNEST SHACKLETON. LONDON. .March 26.—Sir E. Shackleton. who is the guest of the Transpoitation Club at New York, responding to the toast of his health, felt sure dial Scott would succeed because he had rite right method. He believed dial the Americans would have an equal chance. President Taft reV' jived Sir Ernest Shaekl.tou at a M bite House social.

LABOR, MILITANT. LONDON, .March 28.—The Democratic Conference at, Canningtown resolyeil. by a largo majority, that members ot the party should join trade unions in order to conduct a vigorous socialistic campaign. The amalgamation is advocated of all unions on the basis of class, not craft. THE AMERICAN' FLEET LONDON, March 28. Tho American Allantic battleship fleet will visit tin .Mediterranean in November and then proceed to Cuba, THE VENICE MURDER. RtLME. 31arch 27.—A prison warder ,l! .. ' ei'i'H' alleged that Turnowska 1.11 'led Jus wife £I2OO tu connive at her escajK'. TO J-01.1.KW BRITAIN. < ALCL i 1 A, 31aioh 28—An anuexa--111.11 treaty lias been signed whereby Beehau receives ;i hundred thousand rupees annually and follows British advice in external relations.

150 I’EHSONS J’OISoXED ST. PETERSBURG, March 2L,_ Une hundred and fifty peasants died at A rdatoff from eating bad tish bought an itinerant salesman.

dreadnought. BERLIN, March 28. Howaldt woi.'s at Kiel Jtavo contracted for the his! Ut iit tee battleships in the 1910 programme.

COX ST IT UTI OX AE 31 OX ARCH Y. Sl’. I ’ETERSR L RG, 31 arch 26.—M Kukuhoit. i„ a Presidential address in die Duma, declared that a constitutional monarchy did not and could not imply party government in the English sense in Russia at tho present 't.'iy. (lie iresident foreshadowed Bills .systematizing national defence and the fo-onlinating of national education I KISH BUTTER. I.u.XDOX, March 25—The Irish tumor Committee records the sioppag,* of production for the winter a I"l l a,, i vlsos tJly manufacturers ” . ( . hll, 7 to obvate the object 11 'liable practice hitherto custom-. -in oi Irish creameries of purchasing colonial and foreign butlers, and reselHng them without any indication as to then- being originally Irish or m,t. The n port I. 'lei's 111 Ihe advantages of New /••aland s system of grading. UK Al' DU I,EXT IMPORTERS OTTAWA, March 27.-The autlionnes m Canada are prosecuting Iho owners and operators of numerous Western elevators for making fraudulent returns and improperly blenditm superior and inferior grades of .main lor foreign markets. BI.AGK LEGS 131 PORTED OTTAWA March 26.~Labo«r cir- ' es in Canada are exasperated at the Dominion Coal and Iron Company of ~ a N ‘; ,t V- fL ! r ar tanging to import a honsaml English miners to - replace Die strikers. A private bill has been introduced 11, the Nova Scotia Legisla!Ue making the masters’ recognition ’he tiado unions compulsory and In-e-il-e s' g U ' Ilupul ' iatio, t of strike

NEW TORPEDOES. NE\> NORK, Mrach 26—The Amerc a / V ls , testlll ß P- Barger’s subt ‘ c '~‘ Wtpedoes, which are immune trom small fun tire. The destructor cost is £4500. and weighs six tons length 46 feet. It carries a lOOOlbs charge of gun cotton. Two men stationed in a conning tower amidship steer close* to the opposing battleship take aim and desert the torpedo by means of lifeboats or lifebelts. J

[pee PRESS ASSOCIATION —COPYRIGHT.] A FATAL EXPLOSION. NEW YORK, March 26.—An explosion of benzine set fire to Fish’s ten story furniture shop in Chicago. Fifteen dead bodies have been recovered, including five who leapt from the windows. HYDROPHOBIA. LONDON, March 28.—'Two men of the Norfolk regiment, quartered at Gbraltar, were bitten by a mad dog in last September and were taken to the Pasteur Institute in Paris where one died. The other came to London apparently well and passed medical examination for the city police. He became suddenly demented and died of hydro-phobia. He is the first victim iii London for many years. AN INTERESTING DISCOVERY. PARIS, March 28.—A Gaelic cemetery has been discovered near Rheims containing some magnificent vases, boots and bracelets two to three thousand years old. CRIMINALS EXCLUDED. PARIS, March 28.—The Senate lias passed a bill excluding criminal convicts from the Home Army.

LATEST CABLES