THE WORLD OVER.

Manawatu Times, Volume LXV, Issue 1346, 19 June 1911, Page 2

THE WORLD OVER.

[ PLAGUE PRECAUTIONS IN J . LONDON. ) t (Prees Association,—By Telegrapfc Copyright). London. Saturday. Special precautions are being taken 1 at Shadwell (London), owing to a numbor of rats having diod of . plague. The census figures for the United 1 Kingdom total 45,216,665. There arc 17,448,464 males and 18,626,793 females in England and Wales. The ' loss by emigration during the last ten years 497,496. . Tho Kaiser is gratified at the sucj. cess at the Olympia show. He lias issued a proclamation thanking the Prussian horsebreedcrs. It is expected that Ihe Interna--3 'tional Seal Conference will agree to ) the payment of reasonable compensation by America and Russia to Cans ada. Japan will return letters relin- ' quishing the right to take seals at sea. It is probable a proportion of the seal-killing profits will be devoted to compensation purposes. Sir E. Strachey, in reply to Mr Bowerman, said it was almost imI possiblo to prove that a false trade description applies to meat owing to the difficulty in establishing tho actual country of origin. The Board i would be glad to receive particulars of specific cases. China us issuing a six wSm five II per centum ioaai, at 100J, in equal ■• parts, to he distributed' between Britain, Germany, Franco, and America. The Chinese loan was immediately . over-subscribed in London and Berlin. • • J Tho Ross-Cromarty bye-election caused through the death of Mr Weir, resulted in the return of Macphorson, Liberal, 3717; Templeton, 1253.

For Brighton, caused by the elevation of the Hon. Rice to the Peerage, the Hon. W. Gordon (Unionist) was returned unopposed. Tho shipping federation remains firm. Some shipowners at several ports have made concessions, others are unable to secure crews. The Peninsular and Oriental Company last year sent 1,214,200 tons through the Suez Canal; the Alderman lines 1,028,400; the Africa Holt line, 999,300; German Hansa lino, 831,000; Messagcries line, 565,200; Nord Deutscher Lloyd, 537,600. Horn. Batchefllor and' twenty Federal member's aaispeoted the TirAlgai' Square, Stitad, and otter sites for Commo'iivenilth offices. Almost alll agreed to the Strand site. The States Praniieire have agreed! .to recommend their respective Governments'_to combine iai cent/raising the offices in one Australian building. Paris, Saturday. The crew of the submarine Argonauto voluntarily submerged the ship at Toulon for 18 hours, which is a record. Berlin, Saturday. Joseph Remane, a reservist, wa9 sentenced to ten years' penal servitude at Leipsig for selling carbines and military drawings to France and Russia. His sister was sentenced to IS months for abetting him. A number of Senators pressed for the prosecution of the Oil and Tobacco Trusts. Washington, Saturday. Following the recent legal decision of Kansas, tho Supreme Court has issued orders that the Indiana Standard Oil and Kansas Standard Oil, Prairie Coal, and Gas Companies are subsidiaries of the Standard Oil Co., and prohibiting them combining to stifle competition.