NEWS OF THE WORLD

Otago Daily Times, Issue 15578, 7 October 1912, Page 6

NEWS OF THE WORLD

Tho following items were published in the Sydney Sim last woek :—

London, September 24

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Frank Wootton, the Australian jockey, and Danny Mnher, America, have ridden exactly th'o same number of winners on English courses this season. A big strike is now in progress in tho piano and organ making trade in ,tho United States, 10,000 men having ceased work to enforce their demand for a 15 per cent, advance in wages. Tho French ■ Postal Department lias consented to accept telegrams written in Esperanto, but owjng to the. international regulations in foroo all messages in that language will bo treated as coded telegrams. Count von Hcrnstorff, German Ambassador to tho United States, is mentioned as tho possible successor to the late Count Marschell von Bicbcrstcin at the German j Embassy in Ixmdon.

The South African Union Govcrnmont has unofficially intimated that it will discriminate against all vessels that continuo tho rebate system, thus blocking the German freight-cutting campaign. King George's agents have purchased Shernbonrnc Hall farm, near Samlringham. Tho place is 700 acres in extent, and tho King now owns the whole of the parish of Shcrnbournc, of which Sandringnam is the centre.

Mr Samson, president of the Law Society, at the annual meeting of that body to-dVy said that the chief deterrent against litigation was the huge fees charged by counsel. .He pointed out that it only required the solicitors to unite to put a stop to such charges. The lime had come, added Mr Samson, when a stand ought to be taken in this matter.

Miss Keh'oo Lync, the young American who caused a sensation during the last opera season in London by striking Mr I Oscar Hammerslcin. the well-known im- < liresario. with a roll of music, is being sued by the latter for £20,000 libel damages. Miss Lyno says she hit Hammerstbin in tho course of a dispute, and it is said that it. is this dispute that is tho ground for the legal action token. Mr \V. It. Hearst's New York magazine published a further hatch of letters written lo the Standard Oil Co. In one letter Mr J. D. Archboltl, president of the .company, is invited to lunch with President lloosevolt, who, it is mentioned, wished to have a talk with him. Another and still more interesting letter is one in which Mr Archbold is asked for the loan of 1000 dollars for a certain senator, " who would do anything for his iriends." The Peace tongres3 at Geneva is being attended by 500 delegates from 15 countries;, including Japan. The president said that indifference to the peace movement was now a thing of the pas', but there were many who, while believing that the contentions of the pacificists were justified, considered that their ideals were unattainable. The chief taak that lay before the pacificist*, the president continued, was to convince people of the practicability of tiieir ideals. Herr Glitch, the German resident at Basle, Switzerland, who sold faked German military plans to the French and Russian Governments, carried out his fraud in an elaborate manner. The imitation traitor bought German military handbooks, ordnanoo map, and time'tables referring to possible strategical movements in the German provinces and on the French frontier. Then he compiled elaborate notes, invented a secret cypher, and bound the whole in cardbiiard covers, inscribed with mysterious titles. This ridiculous compilation was sold to the French Government as the property of a German staff officer. Encouraged by his success, Glitch then worked ont a " secret" plan of a threetrout mobilisation of tho German froces against Russia, France, and England, and forged Ton Moltie's nanic to the document, which ho sold for £600.

September 25. The Commissioner of Police has prohibited the distribution of handbills in the streets of tho metropolis, and Mils action will throw hundreds of |x»r men out nf

One of the Paris dailies, Ix; Journal, declares that it is unjust tfl describe as uegativo tho work accomplished in London by the lato Count von Rieberstcin, but that a conflict between Britain and Germany is ■is inevitable, to-day as was the FrancoGorman war in 1069.

Lord Haldanc, in tho course of an address at Dunbar, Scotland, said that whilo ho did not want lo moddlu with the affairs of the overseas dominions, ho hoped that they would develop still further the. importance- of the Judicial Committee of the Privv Council.

Because of the embargo thai tho Prcsilent of the Board of Agriculture lias placed on tho Irish cattle trado with Britain in consequence of the outbreak of foot and mouth disease, tho Nationalists havo become restive, and there will possibly bo a sph't with the Government. Speaking at the annual meeting of tho Canadian Manufacturers' Association at Ottawa, Mr Curry, tho president, said ho hoped that tho business negotiations with Australia would havo a successful issue. He urged all parts of tho Empire to link themselves more closely by means ,uf. tho bonds of commerce, as it' was inevitable that sooner or later they would bu welded into a unit for defence.

An Austrian cavalrv ollicer has perfected an invention which, if it fulfils all the advantages that arc claimed for it, will he an incalculable Iwon to aviators. It is a parachute designed to enable airmen lo descend from damaged aeroplanes in safety. The parachute is attached to the back of a belt worn round the aviator's waist, and' in the event of accident all ho has to do is to pull a cord, which explodes a cartridge and releases the invention. He is in that way lifted clear of the falling machine in a second or two. At the third annual meeting of the Empire Press Union, Mr Harry Lawson, son of Lord Bumham, proprietor of tho London Daily Telegraph, occupied the chair. Australia was represented bv Giloncl Reay (Melbourne Herald) and 'Mr 11. It. Dcuison (chairman of directors of the .Sun, Sydney). The chairman, in his speech of welcome to the delegates, said that he considered that- tho union had achieved wonderful results in the recent reduction of the cable rates. Mr Dcnison predicted that the new rates would thoroughly justify Iheir inauguration, and added that he was certain that within a short lime there would be another reduction to 6d a word.

Sopor Billillghursl has boon Installed President of Cent, 'the ceremony was the occasion of a great civic demonstration, in which the poorest working classes chiclly took part. The new President was loudly applauded, but there were suspicions intervals in the demonstration which suggested an undercurrent of feeling against him. Senor Hillmghutst is extremely popular with a large section of tho people of Peru and Chili, and it is hoped that his election will lead to «i reconciliation of the differences existing between the two Republics. He was born at Iquiquc, his father being an Englishman.

September 26. King George will be invited to open tho new transcontinental railway which is king constructed across Canada.

M. Paul Camben, French Ambassador in London, told a London audience yesterday that he was a great partisan of intimate union between Great Britain and France, and he believed that his feeling was shared on both sides of tho Channel by tlio great majority of the people. The close union of the two great liberal nations, said the Ambassador, was of great advantage in maintaining the peace of the world and in encouraging progress.

Tho native, tribes at Lnbango, Portuguese Africa, revolted and attacked th» fort. They were repelled by means of splendid fighting, and lost 200 killed. The Government sent a company of African troops to reinforce the garrison, but they mutinied soon after they arrival, and took a hand in attacking the men they had boen sent to help. Some of them were killed inside tho garrison stockades, ami the others lied into the open. They have not been heard of since, and it is supposed that they were butchered by the natives who originally swooped down on the fort.

September 27. Portugal complains that Spain is conniving at clandestine emigration from her shores. It Ls alleged that 70,000 people are leaving Portugal annually, and that the northern districts in consequence, arc rapidly becoming dojrapulatcd. It is rumoured that Mr F. D. Monk, Minister of Public Works in Canada, will retire from tho Borden Cabinet because he is unable to agree with his colleagues on questions of naval jiolicy. If Parliament docs not accept the naval policy it is likely that Mr Borden will makean appeal to the country. Halim Pasha, formerly an Egyptian Minister, was kidnapped at Saloniea for political purposes, and a heavy ransom was demanded for his release. The Pasha replied that he was penniless, " but," ho added, "my family, though poor, is numerous. They will inevitably organise and exterminate you." The brigands released their prisoner. Washington, September 21. General Allen has announced that two schools for the training of army aviators will be established next winter in California and Florida. The present school in College Park, Maryland, will bo abolished, and the equipment divided between the two new institutions.

September 25.

A detachment of 750 American Marines will sail from Philadelphia for tho West Indian Bepublic of San Domingo on Friday morning to compel the reopening of the San Dominican Custom-houses, which wcro closedl by the revolutionists. New York, September 24. Sam Schepps, one of the men charged with complicity in the murder of Herman Rosenthal, declares that the evidence will send Police-lieutenant Becker to the electric chair. "If Rosenthal had not liecn such a poacher," says Schepps, "ho would not have ' got himself so bad.' I don't want you to think that we killed a man of some account. 1 am tho keynote of the whole situation." District

Attorney Whitman ha 6 returned to New York from Hot Springs, Arkansas. He is satisfied from his examination of witnesses there that thero will bo sufficient evidence to establish a case against Becker.

September 25,

landslides in the Culcbra Cut are continuing to Initio, the engineering experts. Millions of cubic yards of earth arc becoming dislodged and falling into the canal.

September 26. The estate left by the Into Kyrlc ]fol« lew, the well-known romantic actor, wlic died in Salt Lake City (Utah) in the latter part of last vcar, was valued at 3642d0l (£759),

Toronto, September 24. A deputation from the local suffragettes thai interviewed tile Prime Minister yesterday with the object of urging the txtcnfiof] of tho franchise to women wis requested by Mr Itorden to address circulars U) the* Cabinet setting forth exactly what it desired that the Government should do

Chicago. September 24.

Dr Paul Walden, a Iluwian medical man, considers that it is practically certain that at no distant day we. shall bo drawing food supplies from the air. Ho points out that we have already succeeded in making a simple compound of nitrogen and hydrogon, and shows that we shall he able to make more complex compounds. An egg. he kivs, is a complex oomjtound of nitrogen,' oxygen, sulphur, and hydrogen. Vancouver, September 25. One of the largest individual land sales ever made in Canada has just been completed in British Columbia, where an area of 24,000 acres of mixed fanning and dairying country in the vicinity of Fort (ieorge has been acquired by J/ird Joicey. The purchase price was £90,000. [!/>rd* Joicey is chairman and managing director of James Joiccv and Co. (Ltd.), anil of the Lambton Collieries (Ltd.), tho two largest collieries in Durham.]