NEWS OF THE WORLD.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXIX, Issue 10780, 31 May 1911, Page 4

NEWS OF THE WORLD.

The following items have appeared in the Australian papers which employ the independent cable service:— Berlin, May 19. A law suit, is pending in the Bavarian town of Wurzburg, in which the relatives of the late Erntilein Undress are endeavoring to recover a bequest ot CSOOII that was made by the deceased

to the Pope. Although in poor circuinsiances, the relatives themselves inherited nothing under the dead woman's will, and the.v are now-seeking to prove that the testatrix was of unsound .mind, and therefore iiieapable. her property. ;The suit, is' Ijping . contested, but uegotiatiohs are in progress for a settlement of the case. The equanimity of the Reichstag was completely upset yesterday evening bv the antics of t a woman., The "stranger would insist' oil jnakiiig a speech ( from the gallery.' tier paiticuhtr grievance was that members did not "speak up' wheji addressing the House, their voices, as she declared, being <iiaudiblo to occu"ants of the gallery. She said she .wanted to hear the debates. An attempt was niadc to induce the woman to sit down and compose herself, but she persisted iu her protests, aud was finally removed shrieking'at the top of

her voice. Vienna, May 19. One of' the Vienna papers" announces that .after a long series of experiments the 'military authorities have evolved a perfect automatic service rifle, which is 'said, to be ' and of smaller calibre thaii that now used. Brussels, May IJ. • For the first time in 12 years the Vatican will have a diplomatic-repre-Kpntative at-The Hague. Ihe I apal Nu'icio liere luvs be« v ii authoriseir to make the selection... It is thought thatthe concession has been granted in view of the proposed visit of the Queen of Holland to Rome this year. The breakill the relationship between the atican and The Hague dates, from 189!), when the Czar of summoned the first. Peace Conference. • Tokio, May 21. The American police have notified the authorities' here that three suspects who are wau.tedd for complicity 111 the dynamite outrage at the Times office in Los Angeles aro known to be in Japan. The Japanese police arc requested to search for the fugitives and endeavor to effect, their arrest. ' Peking, May 21. Messages from Y ladivostock report an exciting outbreak on the RussoCliinese border. The Chinese garrison at Blagovieshtchensk, on the Ainer River, mutinied and killed their officers when the latter sought to arrest some anti-foreign agitators. The mutineers afterwards attacked the Chinese town of Kromokhc, where all the shops weer plundered., Many, fugitives have, crossed the border into Russia for protection. . : . • , r ' Copenhagen, May IV. In an elaborate defence of Captain Amundsen's effort to reach the South Pole, Dr. Nansen, the famous explorer, says lie. is certain that the president of tlie Royal Geographical Society expressed tlie feeling of the British nation when lie declared that no explorer obtains any vested right merely by exploration, and that all foreign competition in the Antarctic continent should be welcomed whenever it appeared. Constantinople, May 2j. The War Minister, Chefkef Pasha, who recently threatened to establish a dictatorship unless the '"Voting Turks ceased keeping the country in a state of turmoil by party squabbling, now makes tlie pronouncement that parliamentary.{rovornnient is not suitable for •-lev: ' Chefkefc Pastia favors the appointment of a Cabinet chosen by a council of notable. This Cabinet should have an indefinite number of members, all of whom, however, shouTc! be men who 'are conspicuous for their great services, and who have the confidence, of the .army and the people. It is generally thought that il a dictatorship is entered upon it will almost certainly succeed.

London, May 21-. Reyardiug-the difference between the Lord Chancellor (Lord Loreburn and i lie Cabinet with respec l . to the ap|H>intmcnt. of justices of tli" peace, the Hon. Neil Primrose's complain that Liberals were persistency overlooked in favor of Conservatives received scant attention. When, however, the complaint was reiterated by the- Ministerial Whip it evoked the response that no further appointments were being considered. The next tiling heard was that six Conservatives ill the Isle of Ely bad been added to ' the magistracy. The lion. Neil Primrose thereupon penned a sharp note to Lord Loreburn, in tlm eouise of which he wrote: "I venture to think that there are better, men and with better claims among the Liberals in that district, and great dissatisfaction prevails tliere that the party which raised your Lordship to your present high position should be treated with this studied neglect." ' 'May 22.

Tlio While Siinr liner CVltie', which reached Queenstown from Now York yesterday, reports having passed what were' supposed to lie the remains of an airship, which was seen half-submerged oil" the InYh coast. There is no missing dirigible that lias not been accounted for, but possibly the one sighted by the Celtic is the balloon that was abandoned b.v Ml" Walter Wcllnian during his recent unsuccessful attempt at a flight .across the Atlantic. Koine, May 22.

A mysterious tragedy was brought to light to-day in Milan. Signor Setagalli, director of the Lombard Bank in that, city, was fouiid dead in his office, and that he had been brutally murdered was evident from the number of stabs about his body, from which blood was oozing. The victim's pocket-book was missing, but the gold ' rings ho was wearing had been left untouched. An examination .of a safe in the. room showed thht that had not been interfered witli. The police, while searching the part-inept, discoveerd a hock Jif female hair, which was no unnaturally suggested that the clime was possibly the result of some woman's terrible vengeance.

There has just ben an odd sequel to the arrest of a man who was apprehended in an Italian town on suspicion oi' being "Peter the Painter," that elusive individual who is' Wanted for his complicity in the murder of three LOll- - police officers at Hpundsditeh on December 1 last. Though the suspect soon satisfied the authorities that the case was one of mistaken identity, the nolico decided to detain him a little longer, because of the mystery by which he was surrounded. He had been living like a Sand.v" on a,liberal allowance that hereceived"regularly from a peasant couple. The latter professed to bo acting secretly for the young mail's parents', -who, they said, were very rich, out whoso identity was unknown to them. The mystery, however, has now been partly solved. A nobleman lately presented himself.to the -authorities of the town where the prisoner was in custody;, and, recognising the suspect as his' son,'•'promptly secured his release. New York, May 22. Five-girls, all sisters, were burned to death; iii TJtica, Kansas, last night, as a result of a mistake which their mother made. The Victims were/the children of Mr Harvey. Rochei the proprietor of a restaurant, and, their ages ranged from seven to ; 1G years. Mrs Roche had filled a lamp, iiot with kerosene, as she thought, but with gasolene, which was in a can close, to that containing the other oil. The lighting of the lamp was immediately followed by an explosion, with the result that a large con of gasolene standing; close by became ignited: 'ln an instant theiflanies were shootnjg'up the stairway leading to the children's bedroom. ;llie:.father rushed lip ' tlionigh the flaines, and clutching the youngest of his six girls failed upon the others to follow. -Gaining one of the front windows, Mr Roche, with his little daughter clasped in his arms. gob outside on to the sill, and lumping to the pavementJanded safely. The oilier girls never reached the winlow. the five hapless children perishing in the flames just outside their loino.