NEWS OF THE WORLD.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 15301, 15 November 1911, Page 9

NEWS OF THE WORLD.

The following items have appeared in the Australian papers employing the independent cabta service:— LONDON. November 3. Earl Grey, lately Governor-General of Canada, is to be given tho freedom of tbo City of London in recognition of his tcrvicw to the Empire. Tho TariJl Reform Association, in its annual report, claims part of the credit duo to those who brought about the defeat of the Canadian reciprocity projKMals. The report declares that tne progress during tho jxut year was tho gTeatcsl tlie association has made rince it was established George Gfay, tho losing-hazard marvel, and 11. W. Stevenson, tho champion cueist of tho world, were matched to-day to play three games of 18,000 up for a stake of £1000. Tho gamca mil take place on tables, with bonzoline balls, probably in December, January, mul February. Fred Lindrnm, Austinlia's champion, "arrived to-day. November 6. Mr F. W. Woolworth, a wealthy American, announoos the formation of a combine for merging practically all tho penny arcades in Great Britain, the colonics, and the United States into one huitc business concern, with a capital of £15,000,030. The combine will have 700 shares, and a controlling interest in tbo Woolworth Company, England; Messrs Goldman, Sachs, and Co. and Lehmann Bros., of America; also Messrs Kleinworth and Sons, of London. Mr Woolworth lias an enormous fortune, which he mode moetly in England. lie owns 40 ftores in England and 130 in the United States.

. NEW YORK. November 3. Colonfcl Cody, otherwise "Buffalo Dili," the erstwhile* mighty hunter and celebrated scout, has retired from show life. It is reported from Riohmond, Virginia, that his Wild West Exhibition has been broken up. (Tlio story of how Colonel Oody won the name of Buffalo Dill is interesting. When the first raiiwav track wiifi being laid across America it was continually broken by herds of buffaloes, and eventually the contractors paid Colonel Cody £100 a month to supply their labourers with buffalo meat, thus, as it wcr", "killing two birds with one stone." Accompanied by only one man, on a wiry pony Colonel Cody .would set nut, round up the buffaloes, and turn them in the direction of the Tailwny. Then, when they were near enough, he would pick thein i;ff. while travelling- at full speed, with bullets. Thus ho not only provided the meat, but, so to speale, delivered it at the door of the consumer. For 18 months he thus kept an army of men in food, killing nearly 5000 buffaloes. " Well, it was becauie of shooting these buffaloes." said tho Colonel to on interviewer. " that the boys out there on the plain called me 'Buffalo Bill.' I kicked at fixet,. but tho name lias stuck to me.") In a.figned article in tho current num. bcr of tilic Outlook, the New York weekly, of which he is associate-editor, Colonel Roosevelt, writing against the proposed international arbitration treaties, points out that tho Turkish-Italian war .has proved the utter inefficiency of paper treaties- where national honour is concerned. Treaties.- declares the ex-Prcsi-dont. are useless unless the power of arms is behind them.. WASHINGTON. November 5. President Taft's recent tour of the United States has ended, and the President is now resting at the hot springs of Virginia, preparing his address to Congress. During the tour 13,000 miles wcro covered. It is announced that Mr Taft will urge upon Congress the nooessity ol building two super-Dreadnoughts yearly until aitch timo as the Panama Canal has actually proved of benefit to tbo navy.