NEWS OF THE WORLD.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 15098, 22 March 1911, Page 2

NEWS OF THE WORLD.

The following' items have fpreared in the Australian papers employing tho independent cable service :— : : NEW YOEK, March 10. v

Sir Thcs. Shaaighneesy, president of .the Canadian-Pacific Kaihvay, says that tho company coiitempl.iUs spending £7,000,010 during the fciu'rent -year ■■ on improvements. Tne-C.P.K, will also build two IO.COD-tonners as additions the Pacific fleet, even thsugh Canuaian feeling be against reciprocity.

The lawn teaiis autkorit'es hero arc not quite pleisod with the preliminaries to thu Davis Cup contests. They conskier that the Unitrd States team is not likely to go to. South Africa., nor tho South African to vifiit the United States. The English Association has euggjs'.ed that the preliminaries and the toriii-fin<i|s slnll be played in England, the winrer ta go to Australia to - meet the present champion. At present it looks as though all the matcks wi.l be played in A.stralia.

March 13.

Lamed, Wright, and M'Ljughlin will probably be the contestants to represent tho United Stats in the Davis Lupan- : tests. Melville, Lcng, and Jiundy,.thi63 promising.players, were' considered' too young. toT. the champiiariship .. ch:s. i\l;Loughlin nominates Larntd cs the world's greatest player. .

PEKING, March 10.

The Chinese Government contends that it was uninformod-regarding Russia's intention to place police boats on the Amur River. The" Russian Legation alleges that these boa's are for quuantine purposes'only. The melting of the snow and ice is anxious y awaited, as if Russia andJapan have aggressive dteigus en China, this will inkrie.e with the movements of troops and allow of sufficient delay to permit of the settlement of controversial questions. The financial losses.' direct and indirect, through the stoppage of Ihe railways, is faid to be onormou-.

: ■ • VANCOUVER, March 10. ; The R.M.S. Woana t«i>orts' that she kid a : tiying and dangerous.. experience while crossing U:c Pacific Ocean. For seven days before reaching Honolulu her . crew weie battling. with a firo in the bunkers, .but at h.st managed to subdue the llamo:. :

ROME, March 11.

: The first day's proceedings of the tTiiil , of the' Camoir.sts at Viterio were of-an exciting-nature. Bloodshed was naiTowly averted at this evening's fcssicn. A fight brbko-out among, the piisonei's, who .were confined in a big. steel 'oige- close to-the jury-box, and a force of carbineers lv.d ,io- be fitatior.e-d around the cage to prevent a-tragic ending to the fraos. It ,is. thought that.the fight started at asignal from confederates in the body of the court, and at; the first eign of trouble a. cordon of soldiers hid'the prisonc s from the spectators.

CHICAGO. March 10,

There was widespread panic throughout tile c.ty and suburbs yesterday evening. About 8.30 o'clock many of the buildings' were' shaken aixl windows b:6ken, and people rushed from the then ties and hotß.'s thinking that an - .earthquake was in progress. Some of.the "skyscrapers" were actually reeking., It .yae -. difcoveied afterwards that one. of the meet disastrous explosions• in the'annals' of the United States history had wrecked the Dupant Powder Company's huge werks some distance from the city. The cnli.e plant covered 19 acres, and there \v:i-j quite a village at the place where the workmen lived. In the ilcrcs weie kegs of finiehed and 25,000 kegs of w> fimshed powder, ales 150 tons of finished and 130 tons of unfinished dynamite. All this went to swell , the smash. Hundreds of houses were razed to tho ground in a moment, a.nd buildings 10 miles away were damaged, while glass windows a hundred miles away were broken. Of the iOO inhabitants of the village 300 weie injured, but owing to tl:e lact that t.e factory was temporarily closed there were only one or two fatalities. Four explosions in separate magazines followed tho first in such rapid succession that they seemed but one groat explosion. Hundreds of horses and cattle were killed, and many of them hurled in pieces through tt.ible walk

A now Irish dub, with the aim of promoting the union of the four Irish provinces, is being inaugurated under tho united auspices of the Irish-Association,

the Ulster Association, the Gallic League and the Irish Literary Society. Tho club will be non-partisan and ncn-s«tiii;m. Although it is more than a centujy since the British frigate Lutine, wh : ch had en board bullion valued at £1,C03,(X0, was lost en the Dutch ccast, another attempt is to be made to find the treasme-ship. She carried 10 tons of gold and silver sent by English merchants to support their credit abioad. The Lutine's ball, which has been recovered, is used at Lloyds whenever an overdue vessel arrives. •

WASHINGTON, March 12. The matter of party leadership in the Senate and House of Representatives hss become a question of paramount political importance. The Republicans, who have lost their big. men, AMrich and Hale, must return, to the old. system of leadership through a syndicate, as no one Senator has sufficient following,or power of domination to establish himself sole director of affairs. Four or six Republicans will combine interests and become "the big four" or "the big . six" in the management. of routine. Aisia'ement is made in the World to-day that William Jennings Bryan was oifsred £230X03 while he was a member of Congress. The offer, it is said, was mad: while he was a member of the Committee of Ways and Means in the Cleveland Administration, so that Mt Bryan should not bring in a minority report on a bill'- to issue £30,000,000 in bonds, payable in gold. Mr Bryan is credited w.'th saying that there was r.ot enough m ney in Wai street to buy him. SOMERSET (U.S.A'.), March 13. In the course of' a strike resulting from the refusal of the Queen and Crescent Railroad Company to give an assurance that whits firemen would have preference over negrc«s on a line in course of construction, there was a cerious fight ■ between the two factions. The striking firemen' and the strike-breaks fought viciously, end five negroes were shot dead, yesterday, while engines were passing through a< mountain district, four other negroes apd two deputies were killed. The officials have been served with ,an ultimatum by belligerent mountaineers, declaring..that unless the negroes are all discharged they will te killed, and the company's bridges blown up. SAN FRANCISCO, March 13. ■ A morality crusade has been started at J.ongbeacli, the famous eurfing resoit near S;n Francisco, and a great deal of amusEinent his been got out of the propaganda, of the reformers, They are agitating for better observance oi the proprieties on the beach, and ako on the theatrical stages of the city, and they want, £o they say, more adequate costumes to be worn, neck to knee at kact. •Aβ a consequence stage managers have been sending their cudierces into roars of laughter by'wrapping the le:s of tables and chairs in sheets and tacking.

RIO DE JANEIRO, March 13.

There lies been anti-clerical r'ot'.ng \at San Pawlo, following (he dieappearance of a young girl from the parieh. school. The clerics failed to produce her at the demard of the mob, 'arid fi«ktiiig io-ulted. Ihc military police charged the arrested 150,- nnd killed and wounded several others.

PARIS, March 13.

A considerable lime ago the miners , at Jlrircenux demanded incrca : «s • of • wages,

but the Blanzy Company replied that this was impossible, end oficred the men sn annual conus equivalent to hilf of any increase in the dividend. To-morrow the rn«n will divide, according to meiit, ±!48,000, which is thoiT share for the year under the new system,