BRITISH AND FOREIGN NEWS

Greymouth Evening Star, 20 December 1911, Page 5

BRITISH AND FOREIGN NEWS

[pm PBBB? ‘^BOOUTIOK—OOPXfeIOHT.] THE CENTRE OF FASHION. PARIS, December 19.—The Minister of Co tri meted severely condemns hobbleskirts and States that if this style oi dress is persisted iti, Paris will cease to be the centre of fashions.THE QUEEN IN INDIA. DELHI, December 19—The Queen visited the Taj Mahal and the ruins of the palace of the Emperor Akbar and then left for Jaipur, where a tour by rail, motor car and elephants will be undertaken. NEW EDUCATIONAL FACTOR. LONDON, December 19.—The Board of Education has decided to make grants for cinematograph displays fit the day-continuing schools. DIVORCE CASE. Received this day at 9.10 a.m. LONDON, December 19. Thomas Ormiston Chant, a civil engineer, Who returned from New Zealand in 1908, has been granted a divorce with £2,000 damages against co-respondent on the ground of his wife’s misconduct with Captain Robert William Raiding. FEMALE SUFFRAGE. LONDON, December 19.—The Times says that the appearance of Mr Lloyd George, and Sir Edward Grey in full warpaint at the suffragist camp, should force Mr Asquith to take off his coat to combat- the policy which he regards as very disastrous. There is much newspaper and club criticism at the Premiers peculiar position. It is understood the Hon. L. V. Harcourt, R. McKenna, J. Hobhouse, and J. S. SamUel, Lord Loreburn, the Earl of Crewe and Mr Winston Churchill are against woman suffrage, while Lord Haldane, Hons. John Burns, T. Birrell, S. Buxton, V. Runciman and Lord Morley favor it. AEROPLANES IN WARFARE. LONDON, December 19. — Colonel Seeley, in addressing the Aeronautical Society, said that the Government were determined that Britain would no longer be behind in the use of aeroplane for war purposes. THE INDIAN CAPITAL. DELHI, December 19.—Land values have increased fourfold since the change in the capital was announced. OBITUARY. LONDON, December 19.—George R. Milne Murray, the well-known scientist, is dead. f

CATTLE DRIVING. LONDON, December 19. — Twelve farmers have been arrested on charges of cattle driving arising out of the seizures for rent on Lord Sligo’s estate. A BIG FRAUD. PARIS, December 19. Arm and Quintand, a shopkeeper, and three accomplices have been arrested for defrauding British, French and German firms of £IOO,OOO. They obtained goods on credit and sold them cheaply. BRITAIN AND GERMANY. BERLIN, December 19.—Herr Erzberger, leader of the Centre party, in a speech at Kiel, appealed for an impregnable navy, declaring that the British fleet was mobilised against Germany last summer. Therefore Britain had branded the nation and intended to make a plunderous attack on the German people. He added that Britain was Germany’s only opponent on the globe. A TREATY. WASHINGTON, December 19. President Taft, in a message to Congress, asks for the ratification or abrogation of the Russian treaty.

RECEIVER APPOINTED. NEW YORK, December 19. The application of the Westinghouse Airbrake Company, of Saint Louis, asking ■ for the appointment of receivers for the \Wabash railway, has been granted. SEQUEL TO A DIVORCE. I NEW YORK, December 19—’‘Billy” ■ Smith, a former prize fighter, quarrelled with the Chief of Police at Saint Louis. The latter shot Smith and the wounds will probably prove fatal. The Chief recently married Smith’s divorced wife. RAILWAY WRECK. NEW YORK, December 19.—Three are dead as the result of the suburban railway wreck at Kansas City. An employee named Agers, though his hands were burned to the bone, threw fragments of broken stone from a wrecked car, thus preventing the wreckage taking lire. His heroism saved dozens of lives. The accident was due to a collision of two trolly cars. ESTATE PROVED. LONDON, December 19. — W. T. Jones’ estate has been proved at £102,550. THE GERMAN FLEET. BERLIN, December 19 —The newspapers state that the reason the fleet remained at sea for three days dining the recent crisis was not to guard against a sudden onslaught by Britain but because they dared not enter the harbour fearing to bo imprisoned t here. THE RAILWAY DISPUTE. LONDON, December 19. —The Amalgamated Railway men’s Society have received scores of resolutions carried at meetings demanding the publication of the result of the ballot. When the counting is completed the joint executives will decide whether they will be published or not. Many branches applauded the executive in effecting a setlement. RIOT AT DUNDEE. Received this day at 10.25 a.m. LONDON, December 19. There was hand to hand fighting at Dundee between the workers and the striking dockers and carters. The police, though reinforced from Glasgow and Edinburgh, were unable to control the rioters, who were joined by the mill workers, the latter being unemployed owing to. the stoppage in the cartage of coal and jute. The strikers threw a lorry into, the dock. The police made baton charges, several strikers being wounded. The Lord Provost has askea the Government for three hundred troops.

ESPIONAGE. BERLIN. December 19. — Several policemen and others on the active service list of the navy were arrested at Wilhelm shaven on' charges of ageEMPEROR FRANCIS JOSEF. VIENNA, December 19.—The Emperor had a. bad night with* frequent coughing. His appointments have been cancelled. BRITISH ROYALTYTANGIER, December l!b—The Duke and Duchess of Fife have* sailed for Egypt-

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