From the Cables.

Manawatu Times, Volume LXV, Issue 2026, 16 September 1913, Page 7

From the Cables.

From the Cables.

(United Press-By Telegraph-Copyright.) HOME RULE. KING AS INTERMEDIARY. BRINGING THE FACTIONS TOGETHER. LONDON, yesterday. Informal suggestions are being made that the King should take the initiative in calling a conference on Home Rule, if all the parties are agreeable. Mr Wm. O'Brien, leader of the Independent Nationalists, states that neither the Liberals, Unionists nor the Redmonclites can or will refuse to participate if the King invites them. After visiting Lord Lansdowne, Mr Bonar Law, leader of the Opposition, has gone to Balmoral on the King's invitation. SIR E. CARSON'S VIEWS. NO CHANCE OF RECONCILIATION. LONDON, yesterday. Sir Edward Carson, speaking at Durham, replied to Lord Loreburn's letter suggesting a conference of parties, and said that the appeal showed the serious thinking men were at last realising the gravity of the situation, but there was no possibility of reconciling the Nationalists and Ulstermen. A conference must be abortive. Ulster would never abandon the principle of Government by the Imperial Parliament. Outside of ttert she would make many sacrifices to come to an agreement.

DISTURBANCES UNDERRATED. LONDON, yesterday. Sir Edward Carson, speaking at Durham, said Lord Loreburn had underrated the probable disturbances. There were not going to be spasmodic riots. If the Bill was persisted in Ulster was going to make Government under Home Rule impossible. It was the Premier's duty to save the King from the vortex and place him on sure ground by advising an appeal to the people. RAND SENSATION. PEACE AT THE POINT OF REVOLVERS. STRIKE REVELATIONS. J OHANNESBURG, yesterday. A sensation has been caused by Mr Poutsma stating that after the rioting on July sth peace was concluded at the point of the revolver. Mr Smuts, Minister for Finance and Defence, has emphatically denied Mr Poutsma's statement. Mr Bain, secretary of the Federation of Trade Unionists, now states that when settlement was signed. Ministers and delegates went on to the balcony of the Carlton Hotel. Soldiers had their rifles levelled, and if a shot had been fired, General Botha, Mr Smuts and Colonel Frutter, chief of the police, would not have lived a minute. Mr Matthews, secretary of the Miners' Association, states that two members of the Labour party covered General Botha and Mr Smuts with revolvers, intending to kill them if the troops below fired a single shot. A great Labour party demonstration was held in the Market Square to-day. It was resolved, at all costs, to reestablish the right of free speech and public assembly. ,

BLOODSTAINED BOTTLES. AND A DEAD MAN IN A PADDOCK. ADELAIDE, to-day. Frederick Henry Stephens was found dead in a paddock at West Adelaide at two on Sunday morning. Three bloodstained bottles were alongside him. A woman who was seen in his company has been detained. She says she does not remember the occurrence. THE COMG MYSTERY. CHARLTON'S CONFESSION. WIFE KILLED WITH A HAMMER, ROME, yesterday. Porter Charlton, who was extradieted from America on a charge of murdering his wife, told the magistrate at Como on his trial that after a series of quarrels and reconciliations his wife at to strike him. He struck her with a hammer several times on the nock and she. fled and fell a ross her bed and died. He, realising that he must get rid of the body, placed it in a box and threw it into Lake Como.

Charlton, who is the son of a Philadelphia Judge, and was formerly a bank clerk, murdered his wife while on a visit to Italy in June, 1910. The couple had been only married three months, and were living in a villa at Moltrasio, a village oh the Lake of Como. The tragedy was first brought to light bv some fishermen, who, while at work on Lake Como, picked up a trunk, which was found to contain Mrs Charlton's body. Charlton escaped from Italy, but was arrested some time later upon his return to New York. He then admitted having killed his wife in a fit of rage. Mrs Mary Crittenden Charlton was a. member of a prominent San Francisco family. Her father was Mr Hesirv H. Sott, a coal merchant. She had previously been married to a San Francisco lawyer, from whom, however, she obtained a divorce. Several years ago she went on the stage but was unsuccessful.. In August, 1909, Mrs Charlton gained some notoriety by shooting at Mr William B. Craig, a New York lawyer, whom she declared, had insulted her. The shooting occurred in the lift of the Waldorf Hotel, hut Mr Craig was not wounded. Mrs Charlton was removed to the psychopathic ward at Pellevue Hospital, but was subsequently discharged. Her brother is, or was, a captain in the American Army. Some extraordinary stories are told by residents of Moltrasio, where Mrs Charlton is said to have often been seen masquerading in men s clothes. NEW GOLD FIELD. AS GOOD AS ANY KNOWN. PERTH, yesterday. A rich gold find is reported 60 miles north of Meekatharra. It is said to equal dhything yet discovered in West Australia.

(United Press—By Telegraph—Copyright.) PREMATURE. NATIONAL INSURANCE IN THE COMMONWEALTH. NO DEMAND FOR INNOVATION. MELBOURNE, to-day. Dr Ramsay Webb, in his presidential address to the Medical Association, referred to the proposed scheme of national insurance, and said it was not evident that there was any widespread demand for the system, yet the demand had been assumed as a matter of course. The medical profession, which had an intimate knowledge of the surroundings and home life of the wdrking classes, must deny the existence of any considerable number so destitute as to justify the adoption of the scheme.

WIPED OUT BY WATER. FLOODS IN NEVADA. NEW YORK, yesterday. Floods at Goldfield, Nevada, drowned 500 persons and swamped scores of residences after a cloudburst. Communication was cut off with the village of Tonopah, which is reported to have been wiped out. ANGRY BULGARS. A SETTLEMENT. AS THE RESULT OF A CONFERENCE. CONSTANTINOPLE, yesterday. It is officially announced that Saturday's meeting of representatives of the various States gives ground for expecting that a settlement will be arrived at satisfactory to both Bulgaria and Turkey. SOFIA, yesterday. The newspapers are equally optimistic. TARIFF WAR. SOFIA, yesterday. Servia and Bulgaria are stated to have initiated a tariff war by applying for maximum tariffs. FOOL AND HIS MONEY.

ANOTHER BREWSTER. VIENNA, yesterday. A Russian labourer unexpectedly inherited £62,500. Ho immediately lived in the most expensive manner at St. Petersburg, keeping a yacht and race horses. Within a year not one penny was left. He pave a great revel and applied for the following day and obtained a. job as a crossing sweeper at £3 a month. HAYASHI'S REMINISCENCES. NOTHING NOVEL. SOME FRESH HISTORY. CONCERNING BRITAIN AND GERMANY.

LONDON, yesterday. Sir Valentine Ckirol, director of the foreign department of The Times, affirms that there is nothing novel or sensational in Count Hayashi's reminiscences concerning the Anglo-Japan-ese Treaty. The negotiations were fully known to those in close touch with the international position. One section of the Japanese Court favoured an alliance with Russia and the other preferred Britain. What was less known to the public was that towards the close of the Boer war Germany was disposed to seek a rapproaehment with Britain, but only on terms which would have involved Britain in heavy responsibilities in Europe, Africa and America without involving Germany in any corresponding responsibilities in Asia. German Statesmen always affected to suspect that Britain wanted to use Germany as her sword against Russia.

THE FLYINC SCOTCHMAN. HAS A NARROW ESCAPE FROM A SMASH. DANGERS OF MINING. LONDON, yesterday. Five coaches of the Flying Scotchman were derailed in the darkness at Chev ington, Northumberland, while the train was travelling at the rate, of 55 miles an hour. The passengers were severely shaken. There were some remarkable escapes. The wheels were buried in the ballast and prevented the carriages overturning. The permanent way was torn up for 200 yards. The cause of the accident is a mystery, but was probably due to a subsidence owing to mining operations. LAW AND THAW. NEW YORK, yesterday. Another writ of habeas corpus has been secured in the Thaw rase, which is likely to drag on a slow course through the United States Courts.

PAINTERS AND PAY. LONDON, yesterday. The painters' ballot lias accepted an immediate increase of a penny per hour. The other points, including another half-penny, hare 'been referred to arbitration. Master decorators, employing 7000 men, have agreed to the terms, and the men's leaders are asking the master builders to do likewise. AVIATOR'S AMUSEMENTS. PARIS, yesterday. Fourney, the aviator, has covered 8032 miles in 18 days and hopes to complete 20,000. He flies low in order to amuse himself watching the peasants and also motor-cars racing with his machine. GETTING BUST AGAIN. LONDON, yesterday. Suffragettes burnt Kenfon station, Newcastle. One thousand pouads' worth of luggage waa destroyed.