NEWS OF THE WORLD.

Mataura Ensign, 21 May 1910, Page 3

NEWS OF THE WORLD.

♦ DYNAMITE EXPLOSION. 100 KILLED; 100 INJURED. BY ELECTBIC TELEGRAPH.—COPYRIGHT. PER UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION. HAVANA, May 19. Owing to racial disturbances at Pinar del Rio, Manila, the dynamite in the possession of the Roadway Department was ordered to be transferred to the barracks. An explosion occurred during the transfer and a hundred were killed and a hundred injured. Some mangled bodies were found a mile distant. TERRIFIC TIDAL WAVE. DAMAGE TO A STEAMER. ADELAIDE, May 20. The steamer Port Chalmers, from London, after rounding the Cape of Good Hope, was struck by a tidal wave which crashed on to the deck with terrific force, doing great damage. Weather conditions continued to be disturbed till within two days of reaching Australia, and oil was used to calm the waters. ANOTHER STEAMER DAMAGED. SYDNEY, May 20. During the extraordinary high tides at Alladulla a few days ago the water, with startling suddenness, broke right over the wharf, doing much damage to the steamer Eden. The mooring ropes broke and the vessel, in order to save herself, had to steam out. She had a trying time, sometimes almost standing on end. THE FITZROY EXPLOSION. SHAW POUND GUILTY. MELBOURNE, May 20. A verdict of guilty was found against Shaw, who confessed to complicity in the arson plot which resulted in the explosion that wrecked four shops in Brunswick street, Fitzroy, a suburb of Melbourne, on March 19 4 a grocer named Crabtree, the instigator of the crime, dying from the injuries he received. Sentence was deferred.. DANCERS OF MILITARISM. PRESBYTERIANS ALARMED. SYDNEY, May 20. The Presbyterian Assembly discussed the effect of the Boy Scout movement on Sunday school attendance, to which the speakers considered it formed a danger. Professor Rentoul, while heartily in sympathy with the Scouts movement, said they must resist withdrawing children from religious influence. He was glad the Labor Party had come into power, as it was distinctly a peace party and was determined to keep the defence force purely for defence and not let it become a portion of a great military system ruled from London. Militarism in history had always been identified with strongly immoral forces. In view to the dangers to the great matter of purity they must open their eyes to their responsibilities in connection with the new movement of militarism. OUTRAGE IN SOLOMONS. CAPTURED MURDERERS ILLTREATED. SYDNEY, May 20. The Rev. Mr Danks, general secretary of the Methodist Foreign Mission, informed an interviewer that the punitive expedition organised to capture the murderers of Mr Binsken and family in the Solomon Islands in October last so ill-treated two of the captured natives that they died. Mr Danks alsc alleged that they ill-treated othei natives, and were guilty of other excesses. For Children's Hacking Cough at night, Woods' Great Pepepraint Cure. Is 6d, 2s 6d.