From the Cables.

Manawatu Times, Volume LXV, Issue 2027, 17 September 1913, Page 7

From the Cables.

(United Press—By Telegraph—Copyright.) HELL. A HIDEOUS WORD. ELIMINATION FROM THE BIBLE URGED. LONDON, yesterday. Dr Walsh, of the Theistic Church, advocated the elimination of the word Hell from the Bible. American revisers have already expunged it from the Old Testament. British revisers explained that it did not mean a place of torment. Of twenty-three cases in the New Testament, ten represented a mistranslation of Hades. If future revisers refused to translate Gehenna by Hell, the hideous word would be swept away.

DISSATISFIED SHAREHOLDERS. IN NEW ZEALAND OILFIELDS. LITIGATION THREATENED. LONDON, yesterday. The Daily Express says that a number of shareholders in the New Zealand Oilfields Company are promoting an action against the directors, promoters and vendors, with a view to recovering their subscriptions. They allege the property was sold at an inflated price, also that the directors loaned money to friends, who failed to repay it.

BLOWN SKYWARDS. BY A GAS EXPLOSION. BERLIN, yesterday. By a gas explosion at Coburg a house was blown in the air. Some of the inmates escaped, but 11 were killed. STRABANE TR*IN SMASH. ALLEGED DRUNKEN DRIVER ON TRIAL. ALONG WITH FIREMAN. LONDON, yesterday. Neil Fullerton, driver, and William Doherty, fireman, have been charged with causing the recent Strabane railway accident by driving at excessive speed. Three witnesses gave evidence that Doherty was drunk, and one said Fullerton appeared to be drunk. He estimated the speed on entering the station at 40 miles. An excursion train was derailed. near Strabane. One man was killed and 30 injured. The train was filled with excursionists. When rounding a sharp curve the engine was derailed and rolled down the embankment. Two carriages were overturned. There were distressing scenes in the darkness. Many passengers were scalded by steam.

RACIAL BAR. REMOVAL DEMANDED IN SOUTH AFRICA. JOHA X X ESB URG, yesterday. The chairman of the British Indian Association in a letter to the Secretary of the Interior, demands the removal of the racial bar in the Immigration Act, restoration of Indians' rights, and the removal of the tax from those formerly indentured. The letter adds: "Passive resistance will be revived, which will not be confined to the Transvaal, while women will take part in the movement." FASHION EXTREMES. CAUSE A SENSATION. NEW YORK, yesterday.

Three women caused a sensation at Pittsburg by parading the streets in latticed skirts slit to the knee, with flesh coloured stockings. Police dispersed the crowd and assisted the women to escape in a taxi.

A HARD TASK. BEFORE MISSIONARIES IN JAPAN BRISBANE, to-day. At the Anglican Congress the Bishop of Tokio said missionaries were faced with the hardest possible task in Japan, but it was not due to the language, as in other lands, or the exclusive nationalism of the people. Japan presented the highest form of civilisatioa among any of the unchmtianised countries. As citizens, Japanese were worthy of the highest respect of the white man. If the Christian Church could win them it would be a great victory, as the whole of the Orient was waiting to see the issue. AfSGALL COLLISION INQUIRY. PASSENGERS' COMPLAINTS. AT LACK OF RESCUE APPLIANCES

LONDON, yesterday. At the Aisgall train enquiry several passengers gave evidence as to groping in the dark seeking tools. They declared the rescue work would have been much more effective if there had been more appliances and better .supervision. Blander, an engineer, said he saw only one extinguisher, which somebody was squirting on the late Sir Arthur Douglas's head. Sir William Granet, general manager of the Midland railway, admitted that a portion of the coal used on the night of the accident was too small. It had not boon properly"screened, but the price was higher than that of South Yorkshire, which was regarded as the b«st. Sir William Granet added that the company since the Hawes disaster, had been steadily installing throughout its system apparatus for correcting acts of forgetfulness. Mr Pringle, of the Board of Trade, agreed that the company was carrying out the spirit of the recommendations.

From the Cables.

(United Press—By Telegraph—Copyright.) THE NECKLACE CABE. McCarthy discharged. LONDON, yesterday. At the prosecution of Joseph Grizgard, Simon Silverman, and Leisir Gutworth (Australian diamond dealers), John Lockett (jeweller), and James McCarthy (aged 82 years), charged with the theft of the Mayer pearl necklace, valued at £150,000, Mr Muir, the Crown Prosecutor, explained that McCarthy had been found dealing in bank notes paid to Lockett, but there was no proof of guilty knowledge. McCarthy was discharged and the others were remanded. Nothing has yet been revealed as to the whereabouts of the necklace. .

THE KING'S PREROGATIVE. LONDON, yesterday. The Times, in a leader commenting on the suggestion that the King should exercise his prerogative and disallow the Home Rule Bill, insists that this authority has brm atrophied by disuse, and its revival would be fraught with danger, and that it might prove antagonistic to the popular will.

FEELING RUNNING HIGH. JAPANESE POLICY NOT AGGRESSIVE TOWARDS CHINA. LONDON, yesterday. The Times Peking correspondent states that the Japanese incident discredits the view that Japan was only waiting the opportunity to seize Chinese territory. Her action would suggest that the Japanese policy in China was not aggressive and that her interests are best served by the preservation of peace. SMALL-POX. COMPULSORY VACCINATION. SYDNEY, to-day. The total vaccinations at Government depots number 203,000. One Government Department supplied seven cases of small-pox'in a fortnight. Government introduce the Compulsory Vaecination Bill to-day. DUBLIN STRIKE. EMPLOYERS' FEDERATION.

JUSTIFY THEIR ACTION. LONDON, yesterday. The Employers' Federation at Dublin, replying to criticisms, justifies its abandonment of the conference on the ground that it is impossible to make effective a greem en ts. TRADE PARALYSED. HUNCER RIOTS FEARED. • LONDON, yesterday. Trade in Dublin -is'paralysed. Price* of commodities are, rising and hunger riots- are feared. Builders have locked out labourers for refusing to sign a pledge against Larkinism. RAILWAYMEN STRIKE. LONDON, yesterday. Three London and North-Western railwaymen at Liverpool were suspended for refusing to handle Dublin traffic. Seven hundred struck in sympathy, despite the leaders' advice* CONVICT AND CRICKET. LONDON, yesterday. A spectator at a cricket match at Hitchen was arrested as an ex-convict for failing to report himself. He was also wanted at Birmingham. He was remanded in custody, although he strictly protested that it was a case of mistaken identity. He described himself as Llewellyn Davies, a clergy-

man. VANISHED ISLANDS. QUEBEC, yesterday. The San Francisco steamer Sonoma reports that Falcon and Hope Islands in the Tonga group have disappeared. Several hundred natives and a few whites were killed, presumably by a violent earthquake. WHAKATANE ASHORE. QUEBEC, yesterday. The steamer Whakatane collided with the wharf when entering the harbour and is ashore. Her position is not dangerous. It is expected she will soon be floated. A PESTILENTIAL HERESY.

LONDON, yesterday. Before the British Association, Sir Alfred Hopkinson, commenting on the modern university, hoped to get rid of the pestilential heresy that universities existed merely to give degrees. They should remember that'their function was to train men and women for commerce and industry as well as professions. TITANIC CLAIMS. LONDON, yesterday. Claims in connection with the wreck of the Titanic total £3,370,072.