NEWS OF THE WORLD.

Mataura Ensign, 15 January 1913, Page 6

NEWS OF THE WORLD.

K 1 THE BALKAN WAR. v; |t v BOWERS' NOTE DELAYED. KtECTEJC TEtEGTOAPH.—COPYRTQHT. aSITED PBESB ASSOCIATION. . LONDON, Jan. 14. - rowers' joirit Note to Turkey has delayed. The German Government - i&ade certain comm'enis, necessitating itsj resubmission to the Peace- Confer>'enee. - It is expected that it will be ore- ■'.} 'seated on Thursday. , - iThe 'Daily Telegraph' says-that one U of r jmep.lßsntente Powers suggested at the r ' iAinbassadors' Conference the delimita„iijSif ,<jf.■Sie Albanian frontier, but this! f«{ - nofe't>6 discussed until Austria and demobilised. Russia had de- . her preparedness to demobilise btft"Austria had refused. ? r>, ' V NOT FOR PEACE. CONSTANTINOPLE Jan. 14. The decision of the Grand Oounc'l will probably be reached uo-day. It is s. expected that it will not be for peace. BRITISH POLITICS. . ■ ' HOME RULE FOR TRELAND. I • <. ■ ' LONDON. Jan. It. in the House of •Commons .mo i A. ■ ( Balfour (ex-leader of the Opposition) feave notice of motion for tlfe, reja- tian of the Home Rule Bill on the order for , the third reading. THE ipiSH PARLIAMENT. i'y. 4 , ' LONDON, Jan. 12. i* The committee stage of the Homo :J. Rule Bill lias been finished in the House of Commons. Amid Nationalist and Ministerialist cheers the Government carried a motion "7V -fixing the summoning of Ihe Irish ParEK;.» liament for not later than' four months after the first Tuesday in the. eighth .r . jnonth after the passage of the Bill. _ Mr Tim Healy (Independent National-. ■ v isfc member for North-Easc Cork) con- •/ -tended' tliat the delay of a year had i ":_been invented to permit the submission pf the Bill to a general election, on the results of which the' Irish Party ■, was asked to gamble its existence. The clause represented a triumph of Orangeism. » { He remaining . clauses were passed under the guillotine. -■V'..- t

; ; if • THE UNIONIST POLICY. - ' - LONDON". ...Joa. 14. ' HoA. Austen Chamberlain (who was of the Exchequer in .the last Unionist Minstrv) ma. speech : B*ated ~f that he d<d not w'sh to 1 increase his leader's difficulties, whoso Ash ton - • speech had failed to allay the restlessness created by his Albert Hall speech. • Although he was not consulted about the Ashton speech, while he did not i wholly agree with it he was prepared .to subordinate his views to those <if his •*' J! leader, and was still ready to do so if tjio position were unchanged. The }■. timid ones had become frightened and .• the strong upholders of the policy had ;,j v become puzzled. The uncertainty had spread along with a widespread movement to postpone preference. He believed that food duties were necessary fv. to afford justice to our own agriculr, \ tare and that it was impossible to se- !, „jcure community of interests between -■ '.different parts of the Empire without them. He urged his colleagues to throw -* their whole strength into the campaign s|., and not to cease their efforts until they J had destroyed the misrepresentations which their policy had been cloudHe still believed that to be the S-fvitoost courageous and wisest course but ("I the party's decision was against him. for the first time was xinable to share .the responsibility for the decision. ■ He could not turn his back on himself ;* .and unsay what he had said or pretend >. to like the changed attitude.

J .'ONLY ONE i)IFFEBj}NCE. LONDON. Jan. 14, v -v. ~ Mr F. E. Smith (one of the Unionist !, - - leaders), speaking at Cricklewood, said : that the only difference amongst the ••Unionists, was whether, if fopd taxes • were decided on, th& proposal should be -: submitted to the country by a referen- ,, dnm or a general election, ; NAPHTHA FIRE. ! ST. PETERSBURG, Jan. 13. A great naphtha fire is raging at Grosnyi, in Northern Caucasia. Five v boring- towers and doveral reservoirs are '* hurnniiy.