NEWS OF THE WORLD.

Mataura Ensign, 30 January 1911, Page 6

NEWS OF THE WORLD.

BRIDE'S AWFUL EXPERIENCE. A CANADIAN TRAGEDY. BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH. COPYRIGHT. PER U:\ixliD PRESS ASSOCIATION. OTTAWA, Jan. 28. A trapper named "Wilson and his bride were on their honeymoon in the tar north of Ontario, /he trapper left his log hut home and did not return. His wife, half mad at her husband's disappearance, set out in snow-shoes to the nearest settlement and was found by "Wilson's comrade almost half dead in the snow. Her hair had turned completely white. Wolves had attempted to attack her during two days of the journey through the snow. Wilson, her husband, has not been found, and it is believed that wolves have devoured him. A PLUCKY ROBBER. NEWYORK, Jan. 28. A robber, single-handed, at the revolver's point, held up a Colorado passenger car near Pueblo, secured 100 dollars and a quantity of jewellery, and ' then leaped out of the train. Men fol_lowed and shot the fugitive in the wrist and captured him. The robber said that he was drunk THE SOUTH AFRICAN AFFAIR. CAPETOWN, Jan. 28. The facts concerning the reprieved native are these:—A woman with four children were living at TJmtali. While her husband was absent a powerful native, who had previously been employed by the family, entered by a window at midnight and found the woman's bedroom, where a prolonged struggle ensued. Afterwards the native again entered the house, but the bedroom had been barricaded. The man had been drinking. Lord Gladstone (Governor-General) replying to Rhodesian protests, states that after reviewing the evidence he commuted the death sentence to one of servitude for life because there was a distinct doubt,.and it was impossible to conclude that rape had actually been committed. Lord Gladstone's view is fortified by the judge's opinion that he would have preferred a verdict of assault with intent. Lord Gladstone concluded that the crime was unpremeditated, and that accused had presumably entered in order to get food and drink. THE DEATH OF BERON. LONDON, Jan. 29. Li the Beron case Eva Fitterman witjidrew her testimony, saying that, what she had seen looked like a shil-j ling. The magistrate is considering the question of her committal for perjury. Layman, a cabman, testified that he drove Morrison and another man from the corner of Sidney Street to Clapham. At the inquiry into the murder of Beron, a French Jew, at Clapham, Eva FittjOrman, Morrison's lover, gave evidence that she saw Morrison wearing a five-pound piece pendant attached to his watch-chain. The prisoner in court vehemently denied the alleged evidence as being lies resulting from jealousy. Other evidence showed that Beron wore a' fiverpound piece. MEDICAL VICTIMS OF PLAGUE. ST. PETERSBURG, Jan. 28. A Russian lady doctor and two medical students at Harbin have died of plague. CONDITIONS IN CHINA. SYDNEY, Jan. 28. Dr. Ashburton Thompson (President of the' Board of Health, and a prominent authority) does not think there is anything in the statement that the plague in China has been spread otherwise than in ways now known. He fears that owing to local conditions and the want of trained experts the epidemic will go on until it has exhausted itself. MOUNT OLYMPUS. LONDON, Jan. 28. Dr. Ricter's explorations in Cyprus have revealed what is supposed to be Mount Olympus. The explorer found sanctuaries and altars to Zeus, Apollo, Aphrodite and Philos, and he considers Rantidi, the Greek Mount of Divinities, existed in the fantasies of the poets %ho wrongly localised Olympus elsewhere.

DECLARATION OF LONDON. LONDON, Jan. 28. • The 'Daily Mail' publishes what it terms an official defence of the Declaration of London. The paper points cut . that the ships of belligerents have no immunities under the Declaration and that the security of food convoys is dependent on their own navies. Opponents have kept this view in the background, creating the impression that merchantmen, British or neutral, must sail the high seas unprotected and at the mercy of an enemy. The Declaration secures and defines the rights of neutrals and provides a tribunal uncontrolled by belligerents. The question therefore is whether local prise courts are safer than international courts. THE CHURCH AND THE LAW. LONDON, Jan. 28. The Bishop of London denies the justice of Dr. Tristram's position. Possibly the difficulty will reach the law courts. i As the result of Airs Pretty's marriage in the Chapel Royal at Savoy Dr. , Ingram wrote to the Chancellor objectj ing to licenses for the marriage of a , divr.v(-_":'i person cr of a person to his deceased wife's sister being issued without the written assent of the' bishop. The Chancellor of the Diocese replied that he was bound to observe the law of the Kingdom even when it is at variance with a prelate's opinion. BRITAIN'S PAUPER PENSIONS. LONDON, Jan. 28. The Government has introduced a measure defining the proportion of guardians' contributions to the old-age pensions of ex-paupers. The statement that guardians will be wholly relieved is premature. AUSTRALIA IN LONDON. LONDON, Jan. 28. Sir G. Reid (High Commissioner) has arranged to address a series of meetings of Chambers of Commerce, includ-J ing those at Luton, Leeds and Hull.