NEWS FROM ALL PARTS.

Greymouth Evening Star, 6 October 1910, Page 5

NEWS FROM ALL PARTS.

(Per Independent Service). PANAMA CANAL. NEW YORK, September 20. President Taft announces that he has recommended Congress to make an appropriation of £500,000 for the fortification of the Panama Canal. He has recommended also the construction of two Dreadnoughts. The President holds the opinion that the Government’s economic plans should not preclude the construction of at least two battleships yearly until the completion of the canal. He considers that the canal will have the effect of doubling the efficiency of the navy, and that after the great waterway has been opened the building of battleships might be cut down to one annually.

ODDFELLOW’S CENTENARY. NEW YORK, September 20. The hundredth anniversary of the Independent Order of Oddfellows will be celebrated in 1912. By that year Mr Goodwin, the Grand Secretary oi the order in Atalanta, Georgia, estimates that the total membership wil; number 3,000,000. ’

TRAGIC SEQUEL TO AN ELOPMENT.

MADRID, September 22. The story of an elopment and its. tragic termination is published by the Madrid papers to-day. The centra, figure in the affair was Professoi Movedo, of Oapucine College. The professor was pursued by the uncle of the young lady with whom he was clearing away, and, being overtaken, committed suicide rather than face the consequences of his ill-considered act. SHOOTING FATALITY. SAN FRANCISCO, September 20. An extraordinary shooting fatality is reported from Los Angelos. A resident of that city, Rudolph Gastelun was at an exhibition of moving pictures last night, when, following the report of a shot, a bullet came whizzing among the spectators. With an exclamation Gastelum sprang from his seat, and then fell to the floor, mortally wounded. The place was in semi-darkness at the time, and it u r mystery as to where the bullet came rom. The fact, however, that it was i roofless airdeme in which the entertainment was taking place suggests the possibility of the shot having been ared outside the building.

THE EUCHARISTIC CONGRESS OTTAWA, September 20.

In the. course of an address yesterday the Rev. Dr. Graham, of the Baptist Church in Toronto, referred to tin proceedings of the late Eucharistic Congress and said he would pick uj the gauntlet thrown down by Fat he l . Bernard Vaughan in the latter’s re cent challenge to Protestantism. Dr. Graham asked; “Were the Pope (ai Italian priest) and the Church c Rome exalted throughout the Con gress, and Christ and the Church kept in the background?” FRENCH NATIONAL MOVEMENT. OTTAWA, September 20. The strength that is being developed by the French Nationalist movement under Mr Bourassa in Quebec is giving the Laurisr Government some concern. It is acknowledged that Sir Wilfred Laurier’s retreat to Arthabaskaville, 60 miles from Quebec has been undertaken more with the object of allowing the Prime .Minister to make an analysis of the situation at close range than for the rest he it said to require. During his temporary retirement Sir Wilfred Laurier will divise some plan calculated to avert-the threatened split in the Liberal party.