TO-DAY'S NEWS OF THE WORLD.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 10 February 1912, Page 3

TO-DAY'S NEWS OF THE WORLD.

[BY BLKCTBIO TKLIURAPH-CunrBIGHT.] I.VJIK VRMB ASSOCIATION.] (Received Tiiis Day, 8.50 a.m.) ORANGE PROTESTS. LONDON, February 9. West Australian Orangemen have cabled to Sir Edward Carson endorsing tho "no surrender" attitude. Canadian Orange Protestant Societies have cabled Lord Londonderry urging him to stand fast against I Home Rulo. AMERICAN COPPER. American coppor stocks are valued at £66,281,000. CANADIAN TARIFF COMMISSION. OTTAWA, February 9. Government plans for the Tariff Commission, as explained to Parliament, show that the Commissioner's duties include the gathering of information regarding production, transportation, prices of goods at Homo and abroad. Information may be secured on oath, with right of inspection of tho books of any concorn. Every effort will be made to exclude politics from tho Commission's operation. Should the Government find trusts exist in Canada, tho Commission will be ordered to report whether a remedy lies in reduction of existing duties. Tariff relations with other countries will be specially studied. Tho Liberals oppose the scheme on the ground that it is substituting Government by commission for Government by the people, ANTI-TRUST PROPOSAL. NEW YORK, February 9. Mayor Gaynor proposes a simple solution of the Trust question in America. He suggests a repeal of the "New Jersey State Law, authorising the creation of holding companies. Thus most of the existing Trusts will be unable to operate, and the consequence will be a reduction of the high cost of living. GONZALES GONE. The schooner Olympia, with tho seaman Gonzales aboard, broke her moorings a.t Sandicgo during a gale. She drifted to ,;a and was wrecked. Gonzales is missing. EDUCATION POLEMICS LONDON, February 9. The Primitive Methodist Education Committee strongly censured tho Government's abandonment of its education policy. CABLE RATES. CAPE TOWN, Feb. 9. Aeceeding to Mr Graff's representations, after comparing the South African press cable rate with the Australian deferred rate, the Eastern Extension Co. lias agreed to a reduction to 3Jd per word, from Ist March, on deferred messages. WHEN POLICE MEET GREEK. CONSTANTINOPLE., Fob. 9. A conflict of Gendarmes witth- fi band of eighteen Greeks occurred near Salonika. Five of the latter and three of the former were killed. AVIATION VIOnMi. ST. PETERSBURG, Feb. 9. Two aviation pupils, flying at Scvastapool, fell. The petrol supply exploded, and both aviators wero incinerated. COMPULSORY VOTING. BUENOS AIRES, Feb. 9. Congress has passed a law compelling a.ll citizens to vote. HEAVY ITALIAN LOSSES. . CONSTANTINOPLE, Feb. 9. It is officially stated that the Turco-Arab forces made three assaults on Benghazi on January 23, and killed four hundred Italians. A quantity of mules, ammunition and stores were captured. Thirty Turks were 'killed and forty wounded. THE CHINT3SE REBELLION. FBKIN, February 9. The revolutionaries bombarded Kaiping, where a lire has broken out. Twenty-three- officers have been executed at Mukden for having had secret relations with the revolutionary commander. FRANCE AND GERMANY. PARIS, February 9. M. Pichon (French Foreign Minister) in the Senate, said that the 1909 treaty had worked woll, and France must make no sacrifice. Germany's claimß had grown continually, but th'ero was no reason for offering territorial compensation. Hβ would not vote for the new treaty. Doubtless the cession of the Congo bad been discussed by M. De Selves and Herr Kiderlen-Waechtcr during their interview at Kissingen. From May onwards there was the question of the cession of the whole of the French Congo (Sensation). Franco (concluded the Minister) had made a grent mistake in lending herself to negotiations after the Agader incident, when Germany despatched the gunboat Panther thither. WATERLESS LATJNCESTOff. HOBART, This Day. There is a water famine at Launceston owing to a, fall in tho tunnel of St. Patrick's river, tho source of water supply. The- water is completely cut off, business is dislocated, and the sanitary system gtopped. THE SUGAR CROP. MELBOURNE, This Day. , The sugar crop for New South Wales and Queensland is considerably below the estimate, New South Wales's befng 16,700 tons and Queensland's 163,637 tons. Largely increased imports will be necessary. The results of having the Bounty and Customs duty increased is a net gain to the Treasury of £140,000. SHIPPING. SYDNEY, This Day. Sailed: Tlhe Koko Hiko, for New Zealand.