NEWS OF THE WORLD.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 11685, 21 June 1901, Page 6

NEWS OF THE WORLD.

£50,000.000 DEAI

Ni.w York. May 17. Herb Bau.in. the director of the HamburgAmerican Company, sailed from here to-day in the steamship Deuischlaud. having completed arrangements with the Santa Fe Railway for an outlet on the Pacific. Herr Ba'iiin said the new scheme of girdling the world with railroads and steamship tornmunications will involve an expenditure of £50,000.000. Negotiations were also in egress for the purchase of railway.- in Europe in order to complete the enterprise, which is mi vast that he was unable to give a comprehensive ides of its magnitude. By its means transport between Europe and Asia would be greatly reduced. He denied that there was any intention on the part of the enterprise to embarrass she NkaragtiaU Canal, shippers here see behind the Ham-burg-American Company's transactions the German Government, which, it is held, is backing the scheme, and behind the German Government the Kaiser with his Imperial sea ambitions.

PERILOUS SPLENDOUR. St. PnxKßSitrßtj, May 14. The peat review of troops by the Tsar look place to-day. The weather was super'). ! and the spectacle was a brilliant success. , Owing to the report of the secret police i '■ hat there was reason to fear that an attempt I on the life of the Sovereign, precautions of : the most exceptional character were taken. i '1 he route by which the Tsar was to pass j was guarded by a whole army of police. | troops, detectives, and spies, and even the j Great Summer Garden, which His Majesty] had to traverse with his escort in order to | reach the Champ de Mais, was closed to the public, who were not admitted until after j the review was over. Strong detachments of police, gendarmerie. and Cossacks were j also posted at the different entrances to the i city, where the soldiers were kept concealed j in courts and elsewhere. SHAH'S ILLNESS SERIOUS. Tifijs. May 17. j News has just reached here that the Shah | is suffering from consumption of the kidneys, and will never more be able to leave his kingdom. He had been ordered by his physicians to go to Contrexeville for the cure, but it is now wo late for him to ! undertake such a journey, and it is even ; said that the end cannot be far off. His j successor is a youth of 19. who is already > under the influence of Russia, and it is said ', that the Shah's death will be the signal for a j Russian coup in Persia, involving the whole territory of that kingdom, right down to the Persian Gulf. TO OUST BOSS CROKER. ; Ni.w York. May 17. The livening Sim asserts that Mr. Carroll, a prominent and very wealthy Tammany politician, and one ot Mr. Croker's chief lieutenants. has taken advantage of Mr. Croker's prolonged absence in Europe to organise a formidable anti-Croker friction in Tammany for the pin pose of ousting Mr. Croker from the leadership. Many of the I most influential members of Tammany have | joined Mr. Carroll owing to their belief that j the continuance of the Croker despotism would jeopardise the success of Tammany at I Hie forthcoming autumn municipal elections. CHURCH TROUBLES IN SPAIN. ! Rome, May 15. The Spanish Government has submitted to j the Vatican a plan for revising the Concor- I dat, which now governs the relations be- j tween the Church and State in Spain. This | revision includes three points, viz.. a reduction in the number of bishops, a reduction in the salaries oi the high church dignitaries, and a rigorous control by the State of the religious orders. It is believed that the Vatican will consent to these conditions in order to avoid a conflict with the Spanish Government. The Queen Regent j has written to the Pope begging him to offer j no opposition to the Government proposal, j DEFENCE OF THE KAISER. j Berlin, May 15. | The Weserzeituog, in an interesting avid well-informed article, bitterly attacks the Conservatives for -hostile attitude towards the Emperor owing to what the Germans call his " Englanderei." The paper | says that the famous telegram to Kruger in I 1896 was a mistake, which clouded the rela- \ tions between England and Germany. The j Emperor changed that by his personal ini- j tiative. England made the first step towards conciliation over the Samoa affair. I Since then relations have continued to im- J prove. The journal says that any alliance ! with England is impossible, but events; in '■ China had proved how necessary it was to I obliterate the bad feeling created by the telegram of 1896. A TRAGEDY OF GRANDEUR. j Paris, May 17. j The Comtesse de Tregnain (the only 1 daughter of Admiral Baudin), once a great ! heiress and one of the beauties of the Courts j of Louis Philippe and Napoleon 111., finds | herself, at the age of 85, in a starving con- i dition. She inhabits an old tumble-down j house, once her own. near Ville d'Avrav. ! A reporter called there a couple of days ago, j and the Countess took him for a bailiff. She had not then tasted food for 30 hours, the \ last coppers- she had left having gone, to j feed half-a-dozen starving dogs. The Countess expressed her regret that no tramp j had ever broken in to murder her, and end her misery.

MASSING TROOPS ON THE RUSSIAN FRONTIER. Berlin', May 16. The Hamburger Nachrichten sounds a note of alarm in an article entitled " Massing of Troops on the Russian Frontier." It reminds its readers of its long-held and firm conviction that friendship with England is prejudicial to Germany's interests as estranging Russia. It quotes Bismarck's speech prophesying trouble in 1888, when troops were similarly massed on the Russian frontier, and characterises the present concentration as a sure sign of impending danger, and connects with it M. Delcasse's recent visit to St. Petersburg and M. Lanessan's speech at Lyons, in which he declared the French army was strong enough for all eventualities. While expressing the hopethat its fears ate baseless, the journal points out the danger that Germany runs of being engaged in a war with France and Russia, with England as a gleeful spectator. From all this the paper concludes that it is necessary to strengthen the army and to avoid plans of world policy and canal struggles. DIVORCE RECORD. New York, May 16. The Divorce Court here sat continuously from ten o'clock yesterday morning until midnight, disposing of 119 cases. It continued to-day, breaking all records, PEERS AND PUBLIC-HOUSES. London", May 17. By a Parliamentary return, obtained on the motion of Mr. Summers, M.P. for Huddersfield, it appears that the Upper House is largely interested iu public-house property. The following is a list of peers, with the. number of these establishments, which, according to this document, each owns : — Lord Salisbury 11 Lord Dunraven ... ... ... 11 Lord Derby 72 Duke of Bedford 50 Duke of Devonshire ... ... 47 Lord Hartington ... ... 6 Duke of Rutland 37 Duke of Northumberland ... 36 Lord Dudley 33 Lord Cowper 22 Total ... 325 It. may be answered, however, that manv peers run public-houses, not for profit, but to ensure that the " poor man's club," used by their workmen and tenants, shall be properly conducted. THE IRISH PEOPLE AND MINISTERS. London", May 17. Yesterday's issue of the Irish People contains a long article commenting on the seizure of last week's number. Here are some representative passages from the article itself: — "If we had any interest in seeing English law respected we should be as angry as some of our saner English friends at the con-

i tempt for law and order just displayed by | Mr. WynHiara and bis pals in Lis quarrel ! with this newspaper. ! "Being on the contrary. well assured that ! English Jaw in Ireland 'if a compound of ! hypocrisy, which cannot too often ).■ held up to contempt and loathing, we rejfjice that Mr. Wyndiiarn should constitute himself the foremost and clumsiest of law-breaker*."' Thecal 1.- summed up in the. phrases: — " Flagrant violation of their own laws, mendacity in exercising it. cowardice in shrinking fnin the nibitrarrtent of a trial even in their atn degraded courts, trial bj telegram substituted for trial by jury.

"Tons the ioi:hie-s. th« lying, the treachery of English 'justice' in Ireland is as old ; , "ston. p< the •-. -1: of Dublin C'-nie wine that wis despatched to poison Shane O'Neill.

'• \Vh«le\er leai? off the m ■■■■'< from Pk lo.ithsone brow is welcome. We exult in Mr. Wyudlnni's. lawlest-tie"." In sinpur'.y chaste terms is the seizure lost wee; attributed to the attack on Mr. Wyndbau. who was wanr-d to he prepared to face an agnation which will make Ireland too hot for him

There will be no difficulty, however. <• -nc'tides tie article, -'in di«po-ir;g <■'. Mr. Wyndhan. th.- -hie;, the sneak, the Wrbiter, tie breaker of hi-i owr; la*!*. lis* traitor t* his own Kin;.'.

! All tell ornamental language. '■' '.-.■.:*>. a ! designed to divert the attrition of --.he In-;» ; people train the real offeree commit ted. the ; cowardly slander on the King, by sugge*t- : in» that Mr. Wyndham's action was , 'Stitaq jo :>K3}sui '.C.iuod Ai;t?d .\<\ paidinojd ! as it actuilly was. the e.tpreswon of a na- | tional sentiment of loyal indignation.