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Greymouth Evening Star, 7 June 1911, Page 5

BRITISH AND FOREIGN NEWS

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AN ARGENTINE LOAN

BUENOS AYRES, June s.—Congress has voted a bill to raise a 4/, percent £14,000,000 loan utilisable for schools, colleges and federal offices. The price of the loan will be about £95. SERIOUS TRAM ACCIDENT.

LONDON, June 5.—A tram crowded with workers, was descending a hill at Stalybridge and, when rounding a curve, it jumped the metals and overturned. The people on top were flung in all directions. Forty were injured, including many with fractured limbs, several being in a precarious condition. COMMERCIAL TREATIES. LONDON, June 5. Hon W. S. Feilding (Canadian Minister of Finance), in replying to Lord Selborne’s speech in the House of Lonrds on May 18th, denied that the Canadian-Ameri-can agreement introduced a precedent, as the Elgin reciprocity treaty with the United States did not provide equality for the products of the whole. Empire. The United Kingdom had long enjoyed tariff advantage with Germany, which had been denied Canada and had also enjoyed similar advantages with France and Italy. CANCER RESEARCH. VIENNA, June 5. —A lady has bequeather £70,000 to the Cancer Research Society. THE HOLIDAY. LONDON, June 5. Brilliant weather prevailed on Whit Monday. The thermometer registered eighty degrees. A number of heat and drowning fatalities are recorded. FESTIVAL OF THE EMPIRE. LONDON, June 5. There were 150,000 present at the festival of the Empire yesterday. All the building and sideshows are now completed. New Zealand’s fine pavilion was crowded. The newspapers praise the collection of Australian pictures at the art gallery. FATAL COLLISION. PARIS, June s.—An automobile collided in the darkness with a military detachment at Saint Denis. One person was killed and twenty injured, six seriously so. CHEAPER CABLES. PARIS, June 5. —The International Telegraphic Commission has recommended a reduction of fifty per cent on the charges for long distance telegrams transmitted by cable in plain language. The recommendations will be communicated to the Government's representatives on the commission. BRICKLAYER’S DROWNED. LONDON, June 5.—A thunderstorm at Birmingham flooded a culvert, drowning four bricklayers. A SENSATIONAL ESCAPE. Received tins day at 1.25 p.m. MEXICO. June 6.—An attempt was made to kill Senor Madero at a banquet at Aguas Calientes, but was nipped in the bud by tbe revolutionary leader suddenly leaving in a train 'under heavy guard. The lights had been extinguished*. AMERICA POLITICS. WASHINGTON, June 6.—The Underwood Wool Bill has been submitted by the Democrat members to the Ways and Means Committee. The report sharply criticises President Taft and the Tariff Board. The Reciprocity Bill is to he amended by a change affecting paper and wool and pulp products.