THE WORLD OVER.

Manawatu Times, Volume LXV, Issue 1453, 3 November 1911, Page 5

THE WORLD OVER.

A ST.ANDBB ACTION,

TRADE ONION SECRETARY IN TROUBLE.. OVERSEAS HOSPITAL IN LONDON. (Press Aoeociation.—By Telegraph.--Copyright). Capetown, Yesterday, Mr Frasei' (School Inspector) was awarded! a verdict for £25 'in Ms ' slander actioii against General Heiizog. Loudon, Yesterday. » The promotion! of Hwang Yung Lean has been gazetted as ConsulGeneral for China in 'Melbourne, fox tiio Commonwealth. Lord Anglesey, Sir J. Bevan-Edwavds, Captain Rason, Ben Morgan, Dr. Harvey Hilliard have raised a fund of £IB,OOO to erect in Vincentsquare (Westminster), a well-equipped Imperial Hospital to provide for patients from the oversea dominions, also the English provinces at a moderate charge. Forty beds are provided at the •outset. More adequate facilities for operations are afforded than in private nursing homes. Special consideration is to be given to patients accredited by the Agents-General. The 'Local Government Board announces that a seaman admitted at -Shotley naval barracks (Suffolk),' on October 10, developed symptoms of pneumonia. When the sputum was 'examined plague bacillus were found. The source of the infection is not ascertained. There is no other case. In the House of Commons, Mr P. D. Acland, in reply to a question regarding a treaty made with 'ltaly in 1883, said Great Britain was seeking to amend the treaty, in order to secure the self-gov-erning dominions the power of separate withdrawal they enjoy- in all recent treaties. Paris, Yesterday. Romillier, secretary of the Amalgamated Trade Union at Finist'erre, has been /sentenced to three years' imprisonment and fined 1000 francs for inciting to theft, and urging soldiers to insubordination during the recent dear food riot. Ottawa, Yesterday. A lost gold mine is reported to have been rediscovered in the Bayonne Country of British Columbia. The original ' discoverer died,, and the secret was not disclosed. Two miners named Robb and Roberts allege that they have found the \ mine, but they refuse to state where. . Four by-elections in Alberta are im- 1 perilling the provincial Government. The 1 Conservatives gained -three seats, despite < the province voting for Liberals in Fed- J eral elections. ' . The press publishes a statement that ' the building of commercial vessels con- . "vertible into fast cruisers is likely to be ■the eventual policy of the Borden Gov- . eminent. ,1 Washington, Yesterday. £ The House Committee has opened an j enquiry regarding the connection of the ' Ex-Secretary of State, Foster E. H. Con- E ger (late 'Minister to China) with a pay- j merit of £70,000 to the heirs of General s Ward, killed in the Chinese rebellion in | 1862? The money, it is alleged, came j out of the Boxer indemnity fund. It n is stated that great influence was brought c to bear on Prince Ching to allow a 40years' old claim to be paid from a re- J cently created fund.