BEYOND THE DOMINION.

King Country Chronicle, Volume III, Issue 109, 23 November 1908, Page 5

BEYOND THE DOMINION.

The feeling created in Germany through the Kaiser's utterances to an American interviewer, has greatly subsided and t'p.3 relations between the Kaiser and Reichstag have resumed a normal tone. It is reported that Germany paid £IOOOO to the proprietors of the Century Magazine for the suppression of the article containing the interview over which the national feeling was roused. The German Chancellor has introduced a bill to raise additional taxation in Germany to the extent of £25, 000,000. The story of the £IO,OOO payment for the suppression of the interview with the Kaiser has been denied by the interviewer and the proprietors nf the Century Magazine. A dreadful crime is reported from gngiand two ladies having been thrown over a cliff" by highwaymen near Howth. One lady was killed and the other is said to be dying. A subsequent cable announced that an open verdict had been returned by the Coroner's jury in connection with the Howth Cliff tragedy, and it is now believed the lady who was killed fell over the cliff in attempting to prevent her sister from committing suicide. The King and Queen of Sweden are visiting England. Following the death of the Emperor and Dowager-Empress of China, many reforms have been introduced into the Imperial Palace. There was a serious run on the Pekin banks, and fourteen had to close their doors. It is stated the young Emperor's education will be conducted on modern lines. The unrest in India continues and two students have been arrested at Dacca for killing another who was believed to be an informer. An unsuccessful litigant in the Leipsic High Court, Germany, fired ten shots when the verdict was announced. The Clerk of the Court was killed and a lawyer severely wounded. Prominent British politicians in delivering important speeches last week exrpessed sati *f action at the trend of nations to settle disputes amicably, but declared that Great Britain must maintain a navy able to overcome any combination likely to be brought against her, there being no halfway house between complete safety and absolute ruinFurther arrests have taken place in India of disaffected Babus, and the state of unrest continues. The movement in favour of cheap telegrams and cables continues. France has adopted a system of letters by telegraph, under which the sender is able to telegraph messages at night at the rate of ten words for a penny, delivery being made with the ordinary letter mails in the morning. Negotiations are also being carried out by the Canadian Postmaster-Gene-ral with the Imperial Government in reference to a State-owned Altantic cable in which Australia and New Zealand may co-operate. It is believed that such a cable would cut the rates between Great Britain and Australia to one half, and eventually much lower. Mr J. D. Rockefeller, president of the Standard Oil Trust, in the course of an action brought in the Missouri Courts with the object of dissolving the trust, gave evidence that he owned a quarter of a million trust stock, and derived from his holding an income of three millions sterling. He denied that the trust had coerced other companies into selling their stock to the combine.

The Balkan trouble has now reached the stage when a programme of subjects is being prepared for a conference of the Powers.

-The Times, London, congratulates Sir Joseph Ward on securing another three years effective tenure of power, and suggests the connection between the astonishing advance of the prohibitionist movement and the increasing determination of women to use their votes.

A gigantic fraud has been unearthed at Chicago, where a prominent citizen and philanthropist, Peter Van Lissinger, has been convicted of forgeries to the extent of £140,000. He was sentenced to an indeterminate sentence of not less than one year and not more than fourteen years. The Amateur Athletic Union of America has refused to recongnise the disqualification of Carpenter, the American runner, who was disqualified for jostlirg Halswell the British representative at the Olympic Gaines. The committee declares that members of the union will not be allowed to compete in international events unless the management is approved by the union.