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Greymouth Evening Star, 21 March 1911, Page 5

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RUSSIA MOBILISING, fBT. PETERSBURG, March, 20. Chinp. has not replied to \ Russia’s la st note., The mobilisation of the Russian troops continues. - r THE UNIONISTS AND LORD’S REFORM. LONDON, March, 20. Lord Selborne, in-a-speech, at Winchester, sketched such reforms ,as were approved by the Unionist leaders. These he said, embraced moderate reform of the House of Lords, with arrangements for ending deadlocks by means of informal conferences.-If these conferences proved insufficient the Unionist alternative proposal was that the House of Lord’s and House of Commons should sit and vote together. The referendum should be used in cases of grave impoit, such as Horae Rule. ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION. LONDON, March, 20.—Sir Ernest Shackleton has paid a generous tribute to Dr. Douglas Mawson in connection with Antarctic exploration. He a iso said that Australasia gave the first official help to the 1907 Expedition, and he hoped that the Home Country would not be slow in showing . its support to the Australian Expedition. CORPORAL PUNISHMENT. COPENHAGEN, March 20—The Folkething is renewing the law it passed in 1905, abolishing the infliction of corporal punishment of criminals. FEMALE FRANCHISE. BERLIN, March 20.—There were 25,000, mostly women participants, in the Social Democrats demonstration in favour of female franchise. RUSSIAN ELECTORAL BILL. ST. PETERSBURG, March 20.—The Czar has declined to accept the resignation of M. Stolypin, President of the Council, owing to the Council of the Empire rejecting the Electoral Bill, which by firstly dividing the constituencies according to nationalities, was intended to transfer the power in the western provinces from the Poles to the Russians.

THE MEAT MARKET. LONDON, March 20.—Mr W. Field, (Nationalist member for, St Patrick’s, Dublin), has introduced a bill into the House of Commons, providing that sellers in Ireland of meat killed outside of Great Britain must deliver, to the purchasers invoices to that effect. A LIBEL CASE. LONDON, March 20. The Court of Appeal has decided in favour of Sir John Benn, in the case where the Stud Tramway Company were awarded £12,000 damages. The Appeal Court held that the attack was on a system and not on personal grounds. Notice of appeal was given. THE MILITANT SUFFRAGIST. LONDON, March 20.—Vida Goldstein, the well-known Victorian, interviewed, said that the women of Australia approved of the militant methods adopted in England. BRANDING CRIMINALS. BERLIN, March 20.—Doctor Icard has invented a method of branding criminals by means of parafin injection, causing a slight lump lasting during a lifetime without injuring the health of the victim. ESPIONAGE. BERLIN, March 20.—Three Germans, including a woman, were arrested at Bremen in connection with the Hamburg espionage case. It is reported that arrests have totalled twenty. Several have already been released. Later. The second Englishman suspected of the Hamburg espionage has disappeared. The police stated that the arrested Englishmen bribed the shipbuilding workmen to furnish confidential information of certain types of warships. Two of the Germans arrested are workmen and the others clerks. THE TERRIBLE FAMINE. Received this day at 1.5 p.m. NEW YORK, March 20.—A letter, received from a missionary in Anwei province, gives details of the unimagineable famine conditions. There is still five months before the harvest and people are eating weeds, bark, dogs and other animals. The worst of the famine is. still to come. FIREMEN OVERCOME. NEW YORK, March 20.—At a fire of the refrigerator plant at Pittsburg thirty firemen were overcome by ammonia fumes. INVASION OF MEXICO'. MEXICO, March 20.—1 tis believed that the American invasion of Mexico is certain unless demands from Washington are granted. MINE EXPLOSION. NEW YORK, March 20.—Five men were killed by an explosion of a mine on the Missouri-Kansas-Texas railway.