NEWS OF THE WORLD.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 15608, 11 November 1912, Page 7

NEWS OF THE WORLD.

Th« following cablo messages were pub lislied in tho Sydney Sun last w«k

J/iiiUon, Uctoiw W.

Simpson Bros., u wcu-kikiwu mm of stock-jubticrs ou the South Atricau market, navo been dodaiod delimiters, and forced to liquidate. Sir Artnur yuilliur-Oouch, tho wellknown novelist, poet, and essayist, ii;is been appointed l/i'oics&oi' ol l>tigl"-sti Literature at Cambridge University. John Aieohau, tlio originator oi tho quick-lunch counter in iNew lork, died ui that city today. By tho irony of lato this nun's death was due to acute indigeduon. Moohan had ain-issod a big iortuiw, aixl diod worth UzCfcJ.llOl

Ttio ideal life for city workers was one of tho questions discussed at tho Health (JontcreiKxi at tlio Guildhall to-day. It was urged that .'til oity workers should havo an hour's rent every day, a day's rent ovcry wecK, a woek-<-Jid tup once a month, ;md a good holiday every year. Earl Clrey, speaking on the uousui" question at a cnurch oonferenoo at Mowcastle, said that one of the principal functions of tho Church wad to see tuat thero was a auilioiont provision of wholesome bouses obtaiiutblo at moderate rent by tho jworost pooplo. If potumlo, ho added, such liouaefl should bo ill reliued and attractive surroundings.

Tlw greatest secrecy is being preserved regarding tho responso to tho loan of £3,000,000 thai tiro' Now South Wales Government ia endeavouring to float. It is asserted in tho city that. tlio loan lias proved a failure, and that tho underwriters havo been compelled to take ;tp from 70 to 00 per cent, of tlio amount This disappointing result w attributable to tlw general iguoranco that prevails with regard to tho resources of New South Walea, aud to Uio almioo of publicity in connection with tho loan. Thoro is an impression In the money market that tho underwriters will have to take at least, 90 per cent, of tlw Now South \VaJO3 loan. Dealings in tho scrip took placo to-day at 11-16 discount fur cask October 30. Thirty-eight Mexican rebels who wcro captured in a skirmish with Government troops yesterday wero given short slirift, tlio Federal commander ordtriiig thoir execution without trial, or without even going through tho formality of ascertaining their mimes.

A graft scandal ha.i ariisen in tho oommirauiat department of tho Amoricaa luivy. Hitter complaints havo betai mado by tlio Ecamon as to tho quality of tho food, and it ia alleged that an organised system of graft, involving lingo sunis of money, hiui long Iwen in forw.

Tlw dock strikers at Miir-soillcs quarrelled with tlio canal men, and tho jiolico intervened and arrested 11 of tho former. Tbo strikers' wives broko into tlio police station and attempted to rot tlio placo on fire, but tho pobcc, rcinforccd, clogged tho mob, firing their revolvers. Ouo striker waa killed and many injured. Thcro waa moro excitcinent at tlw Parliament ilouso in Budapest to-(by. A cordon of soldicr3 was drawn up aruuiul tho building to prevent tho return of tlia members of tho Opposition party who wcro cjoctcd. Headed by tho leaders, tlioy triod to forco their way in. Violent BociKa followotl. Tlw sitting of tho Ilouso wna licld in tho alisonoo of tho rioters. Tho landlord of an hotel in I'reston, Lancashire, suffered a horrible death hist night. Alter tlio remainder of tho house, hold had rotirod ho repairod to an adjacent browhonsc, and whilo attending to tho fires fell into a vat of boiling boor. Tho unluclcy man managed to scramblo wit of tlio tub and to crawl back to tlio hotel, llis icrics awakened bin wifo, who hastened lo her husband's assistance. Tbo victim, however, was so dreadfully Bcaldod that ho died within a few minutes. October 31. From trustworthy information received from Beirut, it is learned that a plot to assassinato Uio leading European residents of tho town lias boon discovered, A Frtaich warship is cruising iii Syrian waters, and a closo watch is being kopt on i.ho movements of tho Moliammcdan authorities.

A parliamentary paper slimva that during tlio last 20 years the iiiiiiilkt of lascars on British steamers increased bj 21,583. In tho stuno timo tlio total d foreign soamcn roso by 4845, and ol liritiiili seamen 9013.

Refusing lo servo on juries in cas<« against women is the latent scheme originated by tho inalo suffragists as a means of accomplishing their purpose. They declare that tlwy liavo conscientious objections to tho immorality of trying women by men under men-mado laws.

Profc6sor L'lomer, of tRo ltockofeller Institute, a well-known authority on bacteriology, delivered tho "Huxley'' locturo at Charing Cross Hospital to-day, and assoxtod that tbo nasal mucous niembrnno waa tho site of Ixillt tiro iiigrcsa and egress of tho virus of infantilo )>aralysis. It nsccndcd by way of tho norvc3 of smell to tho brain, multiplied in tlio olfactory lobes, and in timo got into tlio cerebrospinal fluid, which carried it lo all parts of tho nervous system. This did not excltido other modes of possible infection. Tho profftwr suggested that ill eases that doveloped in summor flies were tlio pofeiblo contaminators.

lierlin, October 31. Thcro lias been great industrial unrest in Germany during tJio past year. The number of striks is ofticiully given at 2917, involving 325,253 persons, 10 per cunt, of whom wero woman.

St. Petersburg, October 30. Dotails aro reported to have leaked out of tlio recent plot to seize the Czar and to forco him to abdicate in favour of his brothor, tho Grand Duko Michael. It was planned that tho men of tho Royal yaclit SUuidart wero to hold tlio Eml>oror prisoner, but tliis design, it ia said, was frustrated because tbo Czar became aud in his nervousness tied from tho yacht. Adminil Cliagin, who waa in oamniand of tlio yacht, and regardiujr tho eanso of whos«* suicido variona stories havo been told, is said to have ended his lifo bccauso 110 luul Ihx>ii warned by telephone that tho iwlite wore about to seardi his quaitere. li is now averted that a blotting pad wns found, 011 which was impressed a letter tJmt Admiral Chagin had writU-n to tJie Grand Duko Michael, saying that ho could be "counted on to drive straight homo wlien the inoniuig came." 'lho Czar ;md his brothor havo not been 011 spwiking terms for tho last two years; not, in fact, sinio Uio latter tried to elopo with one of liis mother's maids ot hommr.

Chicago, Octobur 29. Tho hearing of the diatge agaihst .lacl; Johnfon of having alnlneted Idtcille Cameron hasboen txwtponfd until Xuvetnber 20.

Willi a towel stuffed into her mouth, athl hor body l>t\u-iny many marks of vioIwvoc, Sophia Singer, a young unmarried woman, w;is found dead at a looming house in the city this morning. The girl luvd Ix'Cii brutally done to dOath, through Iviiy strangled, and the suite of tlw room in whuii Iht lto.lv was dia-i-ovoTixl dairly slewed what a fi(;lil alio must, .haw ni;ule for her lift', llobbery was evidently tlu- motive for tlie CTitiM, n.l £9 ill moiu-y and £200 worth of jowtllery which the vii'!>::i \v;is known to bavi in her poe*e.v;ion were missing. Tlio poliro are now trying to discover the whereabouts of t'hnrlvs Conway, a professional high diver, uj*m whom suspicion las fallen. l.onwav oivu|wod a room not far from Mi.-is Singer's apartment, awl an elimination of the lloor resulted in the discovery of l>U>d S |Hits loading from one room to' the .-ther. There axo fairs regarding the f.itc of .Mi'-y lie.v tricu Rydcll, amwiei young woman who had a room at tho kuuc establishment, and who has mysteriously disaprvaivii _ Vaniwiwr, CVtolvr SO. Tho, Australian who pjjy t >l their filial mateli in CoJir.ti.i ye.;k'rday, wlion they dol'c;it<\l a '.'am r.-pm-onlinij British Columbia by 452 runs, left by tho H.M.S. ilxuvuna to-Avy oa their return homo. New York, OctoJ>cr 31. Mr W. C. J. Kelly, ictiiH,' on Itohalf of Mr llugh D. M'lnloxh, has signed np with Joantitta. tl>? boxer, to visit AraJralia. The contract is for fivo oontosts, Jcwtotto hnvinp bf»n piarantwd a gubwivitial ram. H<> hr\a tho option of hiring 25 por oont. of tho jjaw, au-d will

bo allowed fivo ronnd-trlp tickets for himself, hie manager, and sparring partners. 11« will leave San Francisco lato in November San Francisco, October 20. Interviewed in Ijos Angeles yesterday, Dr 1/cnoir, who holds tho rank of lieutenant in a Gerin.ui regiment, tlio Kaiser's Own, declared that Lord Itoberta waa rij;ht in his statement that Germany was ready and anxious to fight, which was "a fact of the most ominous truthfulness." Germany, tho doctor went on to say, had had a long era, of pencc, and army ollicers and the highest exccutivo oilicials wcro now anxious to show tho world tho great military advances tho country It,id mado in the last 30 or 40 years. Br I/inoir, however, does not believe that his countrymen would win in a war with Britain, but ho [wrintfl out that even if Franco fought with England, Germany would destroy so many ISritish l>attleships that tho United States would beeomo tho greatest naval Power in the world.