NEWS OF THE WORLD.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 15826, 26 July 1913, Page 5

NEWS OF THE WORLD.

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

London, July 16,

Prince Ernest of Cumberland bad a narrow escape from death yesterday. He was taking his troop of Hussars.across a railway near Rathcnow. in Germany, when an express clashed past, and narrowly missed the soldiers and their leader.

Entries closed to-day for the hydroplane competition that is being promoted by the Daily Mail. The entrants include Sopwith, Cody, M'Lean, and Radley. Competitors are lo make five flights on and off land and water, and the prize offered is one of £500.

A man named Brunn, the station-master at Modane, a small town in France, near the mouth of Mont Cenis tunnel, went out for s. carriage excursion yesterday with his wife and three children. The carriage was overturned, and fell 200 ft down one of -the precipices of the Alps. The mother only escaped with her life.

July 17.

' In his presidential address at the Wesleyau Conference in Plymouth the Rev. S. P. Collier said that the Idethodist Church had a message for the twentieth century. A revival of the old-fashioned Methodist spirit was what the world needed to-day. Much of the best modern socialistic work, he declared, was only a return to the methods of early Methodism.

An International congress to discuss the subject of religious progress is now being held in Paris. In the course of an address to-day the president, Pastor Wagner, said he believed that a new spiritual world was being born, He welcomed the delegates to the country that had produced Joan of Arc, the Crusaders, the Huguenots, and champions of the rights of man. A novel lawsuit came before the High Court of Justice in Dublin to-day, when two sisters, both suffragettes, sought to obU'tin damages for their expulsion from the Irish Women's Franchise League because of their refusal to "'hunger strike" while in prison. The Master of the Rolls dismissed the action, declaring that all the parties were engaged in a criminal conspiracy.

Vancouver, July 16. The Methodist Church proposes to establish a moving-picture show in every large city in Canada "for the purpose of educating itlie public on safe and sound lines." The undertaking will be controlled by a company, which is now being formed, with a capital of £20,000.

Chicago, July 16. The superintendent of the Anti-Cruelty to Animals' Society in this city is endeavouring to remove the popular prejudice against horse flesh, as an article of diet. One way in which be hopes to achieve this object is by means of a banquet at which horse flesh will be the principal dish. The superintendent points out that the popularising of horse meat will prevent much cruelty. Chicago, he says, has 250,000 horses which will last on 'an average five years before becoming disabled. In his opinion the horses, after five years, should be butchered for food instead of being worked longer.