THE BALKANS WAR.

Mataura Ensign, 14 May 1913, Page 6

THE BALKANS WAR.

THE MILITANT SUFFRAGETTES. NITRO-GLYCERDsE BOMB. . 8T BLECTBIC TELEGRAPH. —COPTBIGHT. PXB BNITID P8J583 ASSOCIATION. LONDON, May 13. It is stated tliat the bomb found in the Limpsfield Tennis Pavilion contained mtro-glyc§rine. SOCIALISTS' EULOGY. LONDON", May 13. The Socialist Conference at Blackpool eulogised the militant Suffragists' work and unanimously declared that the offenders should be treated as political offenders. £117,000 IN RESERVE. LONDON, May 13. According to the newspapers the Women's Social and Political League has placed a reserve of £117,000 beyond the Government's reach. ' THE SUFFRAGETTE' NEWSPAPER LONDON, May 13. Mr Ramsay Mac Donald (the Labor leader) has decided to publish 'The Suffragette' newspaper, believing that the Government is not entitled to suppress newspapers before the "contents are known. Mr Keir Hardie (leader of the Independent Labor party) co-operates with , TOWED INTO PORT. SUVA, May 13. The abandoned schooner Lyman D. Forster was towed to Suva by the Waipori froin Tologa. Half her cargo of lumber is safe and the hull is very little damaged. The American schooner Lyman. D. Forster, from Puget Sound to Sura-, with a million feet of lumber, was caught in a hurricane off Turtle Island, in the Lau on April 15. The force of the hurricane dismasted the schooner, the rudder was disabled, all the boats were damaged, and a third, of the cargo was swept away. Captain Hillman and the crew of 10 men built a raft and abandoned the ship. The Lyman D. Forster is a wooden fourmasted vessel of 778 tons gross, built in 1882. i;he black hand. NEW YORK, May 13. Scrapiron and rocks w.tc piled on the track near Patterson, Now Jersey, in an attempt to wreck the Erie express. The driver of another express saw the obstruction in time to save the express. "Black Hand" letters notified the company that cn r.tieir.pt would be made in consequence of the employment of rtrike-breakers. P.IOT AT A FUNERAL. NEW YORK. May 13. A riot occurred at Linwood Cemetery, Ohio, at the funeral of a miner." Two men were seriously shot and one was, fatally beaten, while many were injured. The cause of the riot is unknown. PEACE CENTENARY. % WASHINGTON, May 13. The peace delegates visited the President, Mr W. J. Bryan (Secretary of State), Mr Marshall (Vice-President), and the Speaker of the House of Representatives. They attended a banquet in the evening. Mr Marshall addressed tho delegates, favoring arbitration on every difference likely to arise between the j nations. UNITED STATES POLITICS. NEW YORK. Mayl3. The Republicans' Conference in Chicago, which is seeking to reunite the Progressives with the Regulars, is procecdin \'.'y liarmonicusly. A, Nn-'-.'cral Crhvcrrtion to effect a fusion will probably bo called later. PROSPEROUS CANADA. OTTAWA, May 13. Hon. W. T. White (Minister for Finance), in introducing the Budget in the House of Commons, said that Canada's financial condition was most prosperous. The whole national debt oould be wiped out with two years' revenue. Immigrants were pouring into; Canada at the rate of 1200 daily and thev brought the country £30,000,000 j in capital yearly. I

SOUTH AFRICAN POLITICS. CAPETOWN, May 13. The Immigration Restriction Bill was read a second time in the House of Assembly.