NEWS OF THE WORLD.

Mataura Ensign, 4 November 1913, Page 3

NEWS OF THE WORLD.

THE BALKANS. BULGARIANS ATTACK TURKS. BX ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH COPYRIGHT. PEE UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION. FRT.GIMDE, Oct. 1:. Bulgarian Comitajis between Davian anil Strumnitza attacked 20 Turkish families who wore returning with Bulgarian pernv&sion to their former homes in Bulgaria. Twenty individuals were billed and 37 injured. GREECE AND ALBANIA. ATHENS, Nov. 3. The Government maintains that Greece's attitude in Albania has been ■ah'sohitely correct throughout. Recently Austria's and Italy's representaives on tho Delimitation Cbmmissiotn congratulated the 'Greek officers and administrators on the manner in which they were performing their duties. The Greek Government emphasises ,that the Greeks were the original people living in the contested territories. BRITISH POLITICS. "THE HAMMER." 'LONDON, Nov. 3. Hon. John Burns (President of the Local Government Board), in a speech at the ceremony of the unveiling of a memorial to the late Sir H. CampbellBannerman (who was Prime Minister before Mr H. H. Asquith) at Stirling, irecalled one of Mr Asquith's freetradJe speeches in the House of Commons. Sir Henry was delighted, and asked Mr Burns how he would describe it. Mr Burns replied that an engineer would say that it was a speech by the i miMv Sonne time later Sir Henry want- ' ed Mr Asquith's presence and. support in the House very badly. He saw Mr Burns and said, ' 'John, go and fetch the hammer." Mr Burns added, "Tho time is now coming when another nail must be driven. The hammer is ready and the will is there." When the nail was driven they must see that it was clinched beneath.—(Cheers.) BRITISH LAKD CAMPAIGN. LONDON, Nov. 3. Mr William Ewing Gilmour has offered Hon. D. Llovd George (Chancellorof the Exchequer)' 100.000 acres, chiefly in the mountainous districts of Ross and Sutherland, at £2 per acre. Mr Lloyd George is consulting the Development Commissioners on the matter. ANTARCTIC EXPLORATION. | "LONDON. Nov. 3. Sir Clements Markham (late president of the Royal Geographical Society) is apr.iealing for furds for Mr Shackhouse's expedition to explore the coastline of Ross Quadrant. He says that Mr Stackhouse's plans will be a continuation of the late Captain Scott's researches from the McMurdo Sound base, and adds, "With a stout ship, trained and resolute navigators, and favorable seasons, there is a prospect of another great and important addition to our knowledge of the Antarctic."

KAISER AND SON. BKRLIN, Nov. 3. The newspapers are discussing two incidents since the Crown P;-niee's pretest relating to Hanover, showing the widening of his breach with the Kaiser. The Crown Prince, when revising the proofs of his book dealing with military problems, selected Kossak, a Polish artist, as the instructor. Kossak in 1912 refused an Imperial invitation to attend a function at Marienhurg in celebration of Prussian supremacy in Poland. Since then Kossak has been in disgrace. The second incident was that the Crown P ince and suite on Saturday attended ;■ performance at the Deutsche Then J •., which the Kaiser has boycot' '. since the production of Hauptrr vi's Socialist play "The Weavers" i some years ago. It is now stated that the Crown Prince expected to" relinquish the eom-1 mand at Dantzig and assume the command of the Potsdam Foot Guards, and the Kaiser vetoed the arrangement, hence the Crown Prince's exile to Dantzig, dating from- his demonstration in the Reichstag. TRADE BOARDS IN ENGLAND. LONDON, Nov. 3. The Board of Trade is establishing trade boardsi in connection with the sugar, confectionery, food preserving, sihirt-making, metal holloware, linen, cotton and embroidery industries. The decision affects 200,C00 workers, including many women and girls. NOAH'S ARK IN THE AIR. PARIS, Nov. 3. A new form of parachute, with a cage ; containing a rabbit, hen, pigeon, goose, I sheep and pig, was dropped 700 ft. from a balloon near the Eiffel Tower. The cage struck the ground with some force, but the inmates were uninjured, except the sheep, which was dazed and motionless. SUTTEE IN INDIA. ALLAHABAD, Nov. 3. The High Court has rejected the appeal of the five relatives who were sentenced for abetting the Brahmin's widow who committed suttee at puri, and increased one sentence to four years. The defence was that the flames descended from heaven. A "suttee" is a Hindoo woman who immolates herself or is immolated on the funeral pile of her husband. The act is regarded by the women 1 as evincing excellence of wifely character. The practice, although abolished in British India by law in 1829, is not wholly prevented. RIOTOUS SCENES AT WISBECH. "LONDON, Nov. 2. A thousand villagers and sympathisers with Dt Dimock crowded Wisbech on Saturday night arid riotous scenes occurred near the doctor's residence. The crowd resenting police reinforcements threw bottles and fireworks. Several of the police were injured, also a civilian, in baton charges. LABOR & MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS. LONDON, Nov. 2. T'.ie, municipal elections in England and Wales, excepting in London, resulted in a' Labor gam of 20 odd seats from the Unionists and Liberals, chiefly in the industrial centres of the North. "WHAT CAN'T BE CURED MUST BE ENDURED!" Science nowadays has discovered many valuable remedies, but none more popular for what it has really accomplished than Tonking'e Linseed Emulsion, the sure cure for coughs, colds, influenza, etc. 6 ls6d, 2s 6d, 4s 6^—Chemists and Stores.

■ EX-KING OF ZULU LAND. CAPETOWN, Nov. 2. • '.."-faction is expressed amow; the Zu at the Government permitting Di: :ulu (ex-King of Zululand) to br bin 1 in the royal kraal in Zululand. Th< isands were ryrescnt from all parts. -I):; ailu was recently converted to j Christianity, and native elergvmon of• 1 ficiaiod at the graveside. I _—! SOUTH AFRICAN UNION. CAPETOWN, Nov. 3. Hon. L. Botha (Prime Minister), addressing a public meeting atNylstroom, s£d that the time would soon come to consider the advisableness of Rhodesia joining the Union. He wanted them all j to study what they could do to achieve I their greatest object—namely, to get a united South Africa as far north as posI sible. The bulk of the speech was devoted to the Hertaog controversy, and was frequently interrupted. A vote of confidence was carried by 396 votes to 263. TIMES'-'SUN' SPECIAL CABLES. DAMAGE IN MEXICO. t*t BLECTEIC TELEGRAPH COPTEIGHT, TIMES—SYDNEY §WN SPECIAL CABLES. MEXICO CITY, Nov. 3. After the Monterey defeat the rebels burned railway workshops and warehouses. Six hundred waggons, 200 of which were loaded 1 with merchandise were dynamited', and also 19 engines. The damage amounted to £370,000. ALASKA AND CANADA. WASHINGTON, Nov. 3. Congressman Smith, of Maryland, submited a resolution to Congress at the instance of the Universal Peace Union in favor of ceiling the Alaskan territory to Canada, on the grounds that it bars the access of the Yukon land Mackenzie basin to the Pacific, and that besides winning Canada's gratitude" the concession would stand the United 1 States in good stead when the question of am alliance, against the yellow race arises. WIRELESS WOULD GIRDLE. LONDON, Nov. 2. The Marconi Wireless Telegraph Company ';> reinforcing wireless services between America and England by the erection of daditional high-power stations, and al*o with San Francisco, Hawaii, and Later the Philippines. Brazil, and the Argentine will be included, making a, wireless girdle round the world. THE RUSSIAN TRIAL. ST. PETERSBURG, Nor. 3. In regard to the trial of the. Jewish clerk Beiliss on a charge of murdering in April, 1911, the Christian Ixiy Yushinsky, the Government is determined not to allow excesses against Jews whatever the result of the trial may be. Bureaucratic circlets generally disapprove of the ritualistic charge. AUSTRALIAN DEFENCE. LONDON, Nov. 2. Hundreds, of protects are reaching the Commonwealth officers from residents in Britain against Australia's universal mi lit'ai"y service.. , The Commonwealth is instituting .a fresh campaign to counteract the effects of the. National Peace Council's propaganda. The change of the season is always a dangerous time. Look well to your health, —and you cannot have good health if you do not digest your food. Nature lias provided us with certain herbs which assist the digestive organs to do their work, and Baxter's Pills — Compound of Quinine —are made only of certain herbs which act on the liver and the digestive fluids. See that you get silver coated pills, or they are not Baxter's and Baxter's is the only kind that will give you perfect satisfaction. They will make you eat well, and sleep well and generally restore your health, —ls 6djwx._ _ ..„___„_ ,_„ J%