WORLD'S NEWS-

Manawatu Times, Volume LXV, Issue 1819, 10 January 1913, Page 7

WORLD'S NEWS-

FROM THE CABLES. A wireless r messago from Advent Bay, Spitzbergen, states that Herr Scroder, Stranz, Sandleben (a geologist), and two others of the section of the Scroder-Stranz expedition, debarked at Treurenburg Bay on August 15 on a sledging expedition into the interior. Their fate is unknown.

The land discovered by Lieut. Filchner extends from latitude 67.35, longitude 32 south to 79.2 west to the Grand Barrier. Commander Bashel died in the Antarctic from heart disease. The secretary of the South Australian Petroleum Syndicate States that a Melbourne firm of high repute is acting on behalf of the Standard Oil Company of Australia in negotiating with' his syndicate with the purpose of raising capital to thoroughly test Kangaroo Island and open up oil deposits which are believed to exist there. The capital for development will come from London. The North Eastern railwaymen at Newcastle-on-Tyne and Gateshead, as a protest against Knox's second suspension, have adopted dilatory working, adhering strictly to the rules, the methods being similar to those adopted in the Italian strike of 1905.

At the North Mt Lyell Commission, Tasmania, the minutes of the Lyell branch of the Federal Mining Engineers' Association were produced, and showed that the secretary on June 10th, wrote to the Mines Department that the means of escape in "the North Lyell mine were insufficient. Two more bodies have been discovered, making ten out of forty -two victims. It is expected others will be discovered in a few days.

Mr Gubbins, chairman of the Per-uvian-Amazon Rubber Company, gave evidence in London before the committee inquiring into the rubb( r horrors that he had not heard of the atrocities until they were published in the newspapers. He did not think the directors, even Arana, knew all that was going on. He considered the directors were not responsible for the outrages. After the disclosure it was the Peruvian Government's duty to punish the criminals.

The strike at the Maestag colliery, Britain, over the employment of non-unionists has been settled, the non-unionist party having joined the federation. A wall collapsed and destroyed a house at Rome occupied by several families. Twelve persons were killed, including Mrs Claire Buxton, of London, and several were injured. Lord Hardinge, the Indian Viceroy, is progressing from his wounds, but his hearing is affected. Robbers at Johore, India,£ hacked Oakley, manager of the Sadenak rubber estate, with an axe. Oakley's injuries proved fatal. Twenty-one cows have been poisoned with arsenic at Billingford, England. Twelve died, and the condition of six others is serious There is no clue to the perpetrator. Bowles, who shot Inspector Henry, commander of the London police, two months ago, was sentenced to fifteen years' penal servitude. Inspector Henry appealed for leniency. MMr Winston Churchill. British First Lord of the Admiralty, replying to Captain Archer Shee, said the dockyard officials were responsible for allowing the Torch to proceed to sea, and they had been censured for lax administration.