NEWS OF THE WORLD.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 15820, 19 July 1913, Page 15

NEWS OF THE WORLD.

The following cable messages appeared in the Sydney Sun last week :—

London, July 10.

While Lord Aberdeen was opening afete at Kingstown, Dublin, yesterday, a woman rushed up to him saying: "Your Excellency, how dare you come here while women are being tortured in prison. You are the representative of the Government in Ireland. Why did you allows it!"

Lord Aberdeen did not reply, and the suffragette was removed by a detective.

Mdllc. Mestinguett, tho well-known Prench actves*, was the victim of a serious accident yeste.uky. She was taking part in a play that was being performed for a picture-show film,, and had a scene in which another actress had to strike her with a hammer. By an unfortunate oversight the hammer was not padded, as it should have been, with the result that Mdlle. Mestinguett was knocked senseless with the blow she received. Her injuries are so serious that she is likely to be incapacitated for some weeks. The monopoly enjoyed by the French Government with the sale of tobacco hits lately been infringed by the head waiters in Paris hotels, who have been selling cigars and cigarettes and charging excessive prices. One customer who was thus imposed upon appealed to the courts, with the result that the waiter by whom lie was victimised was fined £22, If the Government persist in its monopoly cigars and cigarettes will no longer be procurable at any of the restaurants. ■

Some shocking disclosures were made todav at the trial of the woman Gerald, whose flat in Piccadilly, West London's smart thoroughfare, was recently j'aided by the police. It. was shown that this woman kept three girls, all under 17 years of age, and that she shared the proceeds of their immorality with a man who stayed at The Ritz, and whose businesss it was to make arrangements for wealthy men to visit the flat. In one of his letters to Gerald this fellow wroto: "I can arrange iof three. They are the real thing, and frightfully expensive."

Gerald ©is convicted, and sentenced to three monfiis' imprisonment.

Berlin, July 9. Notwithstanding the large subsidies panted to the Zeppelin Airship Company by the Government, the balance sheet for last year shows a loss of £75,000, representing half the company's capital. The loss is explained by the Ion.? list of disasters by which the Zeppelin dirigibles have been overtaken. It is noteworthy that the price of Zeppelin airships has just doubled- in the last two vears, having risen from £25,000 to £50.000.

New York, July 9. Preparations have begun at the Brooklyn I navy yard for the laying down of America's 39th battleship. The new ship will be one of the largest afloat, and will cost £2,200.000. She will be of 31,400 tons, and wiil have a length of 608 ft, with a beam of. 97ft, and a draught of j 23ft llin.