Beyond the Dominion

King Country Chronicle, Volume III, Issue 171, 8 July 1909, Page 4

Beyond the Dominion

NAVAL MEAT CONTRACTS. London, July 3. The Admiralty June contract for preserved beef has been divided equally between the Queensland a->d Central Meat Export Companies, whilst the contract for mutton has been given to the Sydney Meat Preserving Company. THE GERMAN DREADNOUGHTS. London, July 3. The Berlin correspondent of the "Daily Mail" gives details of the new German Dreadnoughts—the Nassau, Westfalen, and Rheinland —the two first named being practically ready for sea. Each is 459 feet in length with 90 feet beam, and of 18,500 tons burthen, with 20,000 horse power, and a guaranteed speed o£ 19 knots. The fourth Dreadnought, the Bleuch er, is 507 feet long, with 82 feet beam, and of 32,000 horse power, and a speed of 24 knots. AUSTRALIAN LAND TAXATION. Melbourne, July 5. The Victorian State Government is preparing a Land Tax Bill, estimated to bring in £400,000 annually. The object of the bill is to induce wider use of land for settlement, but it is not specially designed to burst up large estates. COLLISION AT SEA, London, July 5. During a fog last night off Dungeness, on the south coast of Kent, the French cargo steamer Circe collided with the New Zealand Shipping Company's steamer Whakatane, bound from London to Auckland. The Whakatane was struck hard amidships, her engineroom being flood ed, and she commenced to settle down, but was kept afloat with the assistance of tugs. Meanwhile the Circe brought the Whakatane's passengers to Dover, and there they will, with the mails and valuable stud horses, be transferred to another of the same company's liners. The Whakatane was towed to Dover, and beacned. She was badly torn by the stern, the crew being mustered in her forepart. All damage done is below the water line.

A DISASTROUS PANIC. New York, July 5. A cry of "Fire" in a big drapery store at which a bargain sale was proceeding caused a mad rush by the 600 women within the building to the stair cases. During the struggle for the exits 60 women were injured, many of them seriously. GERMAN DIAMOND FIELDS. Berlin, July 5. Reports have been published of wonderful finds of diamonds at Luderitz Bay and Spencer Bay,in German South west Africa. It is alleged that valuable stonts are being picked up in such quantities as to make Berlin a possible future rival of Amsterdam in the cutting industry. Herr Dernburg. tne German Colonial Director, estimates the value of the diamantiferous deposits in German South-west Africa. ANARCHY IN INDIA. London, July 5. Mr Victor Grayson, one of the Socialist members of the House of Commons, speaking a Huddersfied on Saturday night, said the murder of Sir Wm. Wyllie was very regrettable, and with his relatives he expressed the deepest sympathy. "I do not condemn the act," concluded Mr Grayson, "but extend my sympathy to the poor Indian, mad and exasperated on account of the horrors endured by his people." The "Daiiy Graphic," calls Mr Asquith's attention to Mr Grayson's speech. The Bombay correspondent of the Times says that opinion in India regarding the double tragedy is remarkably unanimous.The newspaper "Parsi" remarks that the majority of the cowardly scoundrels responsible for betraying young Indians into dastardly paths are well known, and the whole of India ought to demand that these moral lepers be brought to book in India and Europe. Reuter's Agency reports that there is a renewal of political excitement in Eastern Bengal as an outcome of the recent speeches by Mr Arabindo Ghose and others sympathising with the Natives who have been deported. "The Englishman," Calcutta, connects Sir William Wyllie's murder with recent events in Bengal, and blames professedly lo3*al public men and writers in Indian newspapers, who while denouncing anarchism, lose no opportunity of inflaming students against the Government. The Native papers/'Bengalee" and "Amrita Bazar Patrika" express horror at the murder.

Bombay, Julyo. At the inquest on Sir Willaim Wyllie the police stated that they found in Dhingara's lodgings a record of his pistol practice, together with incriminating papers and the letter from Sir William Wyllie in which he invited Dhingara to meet him at the India Office, this invitation being the outcome of a letter :'r rn the- assasinks brother, in which, he a-ked Sir Wilj Ham to remonstrate w;:h tr.c young j man and wean hit. :>c; company. ! A verdict o: ".vikkk murder was re- ; turned. A witness at :k,inouest on Dr Lalca!a dec'.a:--.-"! his was rirngg.-- ; with ohang. a preparaciia:. seamen fr-n, the- docks went unsolicited to a meeting hek: on Saturday to express their abhorrence of the murder.