BRITISH AND FOREIGN NEWS

Greymouth Evening Star, 20 June 1912, Page 5

BRITISH AND FOREIGN NEWS

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AGRICULTURAL SCIENCE.

LONDON, June 19—Mr. Walter Morrison has given the third £IO,OOO to Oxford University for the promotion of agriculture. FAMOUS JOCKEY HONORED. Received this day at 11.20 a.m. LONDON, June 19.—Lord Derby presented Frank Wootton with a massive silver cup, egnraved with the names of the winners ridden by Wootton for the Stanley House stable. * FATAL AEROPLANE COLLISION. PARIS, June 19.—Two aeroplanes at 'Donai collided broadside on at a height of 75ft, crashing to the ground together. Both aviatoi’s, whose names were Captain Dubois and Lieutenant, Peignian, had their skulls and limbs fractured.

QUEENSLAND STRIKE LEGISLATION LONDON, June 19.—The Pall Mall Gazette, referring to the - Queensland strike legislation, says it will be interesting in this country to note the new policy to check upheavals. 1

OPERATION UNDER DIFFICULTIES. LONDON. June 19.—While the training ship Mersey was in a gale off Cape Horn, the surgeon successfully operated on a cadet for appendicitis.

TITANIC INQUIRY CLOSED. LONDON, June 19.—Evidence in the Titanic inquiry has closed. Lord Mersey, the President, decided that binoculars were not desirable in the crow’s nest.

GREAT METHODIST MOVEMENT. LONDON, June 19.—The Primitive Methodist’s Centenary Fund, aiming to raise £IOO,OOO for central objects, has already reached £240,000 and £BB.OOO respectively.

GIGANTIC ORGANISATION. LONDON, Juno 19.—'The Scottish Ivon and Steel Company has been formed with a capital of £1,000,000 by the amalgamation of thirteen firms. The combined annual output will be 250,000 tons. SUFFRAGETTES NOT LLOYD--GEORGE. LONDON, June, 19.—When the Hon. D. Lloyd George was leaving Caxton Hall after opening a Welsh bazaar, he was moved by suffragettes, but was res cued by bystanders. HANDSOME BEQUEST. LONDON, June 19.—Mr. White, a Wiltshire cheese factory owner, has bequeathed £200,000 to the Bishop of London for the benefit, of the Church of England. OUTBREAK OF CHOLERA. BOMBAY, June 19. There have been 518 cases of cholera reported in a week, 428, including two Europeans succumbing. CRITICAL POINT TURNED. LONDON, June 19. Liberal newspapers say that Sir Agar Robartes’s amendment, excluding Antrim, Down, Armagh and Londonderry, was the crux of the Home Rule Bill, and the defeat of the amendment implies that the critical point has been turned. MINERS ENTOMBED. NEW YORK, June 19.—An explosion in the Hastings mine at Trinidad, Colorado, resulted in thirteen being entombed. All are believed to bo dead. The rescuers were unable to enter at first but later recovered several bodies. FIGHTING THE TRUSTS. NEW YORK, June 19.—The Federal Government’s suit against the North Atlantic steamship conference which is allegedly operating against the provisions of the Sherman Anti-trust law, has begun. The evidence indicated that the combine had agreed to operate with certain 1 ships known as “fighting ships” to suppress the competition of rivals.