ADDITIONAL CABLES

Otautau Standard and Wallace County Chronicle, Volume VII, Issue 314, 9 May 1911, Page 2

ADDITIONAL CABLES

Lord Kitchener will be th© bearer of the Sword of State at the King's Coronation.

The Anti-Rent League, recently forn._tl at Rome, has resulted m so many houses being emptied 1 that a reduction m the existing tariff seems inevitable. Thousands of people are sleeping oufc m the open air, m the streets, m huls, and caves, and outside the city wall; m fact, wherever they can get. The intallation has been commenced m French Indo-China of a \vireless telegraphic station that is to have a radius of nearly 2,500 miles. This will enable the French colony to communicate with Singapore, Batavia, and Manila." The plant is to be located m Saigon, and its cost will run into about £15,000.

An unusual naval demonstration was witnessed at* Bizerta, m Tunis, where British, Italian, and Spanish warships combined m exchanging greetings and salutes with the French squadron that has brought President Fallieres on a. two-weeks' visit to the French protectorate. Secret poli;e m Monte Video, Uruguay, have unearthed a counterfeiting gang that are declared to have placed more than £20,000 of spurious money m circulation. Ex-Judge Day has unanimously been elected president of the Equitable Life Assurance Society. A proposal has s been made that the president's salary should be reduced from £16,000 to £10,000.

Sir Grenille Cave-Biowne-Cave has resigned his position as vice-president of the Boy Scouts of America m order to enter the Salvation Army Training College to qualify for an officer's commission.

Japan is angry at the discovery that portion of , the .revenue of the Mancluirian provinces has been allotted as part of the security for China's £10,000,000 loan. The Tokio Press teems with bitter criticism, claiming that China has disregarded the contention of Japan and Russia that they have superior rights m Manchuria* The uneasiness caused m Paris by the frank utterances which were lately made by the British Foreign Minister, to the effect that England had no obligations to France beyond those imposed by the Convention of 1904, and which threatened to revive the old feeling of distrust, has subsided. The gerieral' opinion now is that the entente ccrdiale stands just where it did before Sir Edward Grey's utterances, and that the Franco-British relations will continue to- be excellent as long as theterms of the Convention are adhered to. The popular impression is that the document gives Great Britain a free hand m Egypt, and France a free hand m Morocco.

The opinion is freely expressed m London that the fact that a British cruiser is hastening to Delagoa Bajj. Portuguese East Africa, indicates that Britain is taking the initiative m the complete disintegration of Portuguese colonies. The ' Daily Express ' says that control of the great port must be entrusted to a Government capable of maintaining order. Portugal, it is pointed cut, does not offer the necessary security, and must therefore come to an honorable arrangement with some other Power, and thus assure good government. Greek merchants living m Turkey are "preparing to quit the country. The growing fear of Greece' that the new militarism m Turkey is directed against her perhaps explains the urgency of the request that has been made to the British Government for the loan of an Admiral and three junior officers, who are required for the training of the Greek Navy. Applicants, however, are likely to be scarce, when one remembers the past experiences of foreign naval officers essaying similar -tasks m Turkey.

The Parisian Press are loudljr complaining of the invasion of foreigners. According to the last census 250,000 strangers are living m Paris. Of this number 11,800 arc Americans.

Acting on a report that an illegal meeting was m progress ia-St. Petersburg, the police surrounded the Jewish Synagogue, and arrested forty of the worshippers, Ostensibly because they did not possess passports. Delegates from the Emigration Conference at Kieff explain why Government passports are refused to Jews. Though hostile to Jews living m certain quarters, the bureaucracy is obliged,^by means of a strict system of birth certification, to keep on the track of every male Jew, and to impose a fine oi £30 upon either the parents or the nearest relative of every boy who is not produced for compulsory military service. This system is directed against the wealthier Jewish families, who are consistently sending their children abroad.

Commenting upon the formidable task that the United States would impose upon herself by intervening m Mexican affairs, ihe ' Spectator ' propounds the following interesting conundrum: — "If Great Britain needed 400,000 men and two years' operations to subjugate 1,000,000 Boers occupying a region half the size of Mexico, how ,numy troops would the United States j-e---quiro to deal with 14,000,000 Mexicans?" While expressing the greatest friendliness with the United States, the ' Spectator ' urges that there is danger m insisting on Monroeism without the means to mak<good.

General Reyes, a former Mexican Minister of War, who has been m Paris for several months, is preparing to return, +o Mexico, having received a special summons from President Diaz. Reyes is one of the strongest men m Mexico, and he may be called to undertake the Presidency m the event of President Diaz resigning. The United States Ambassador at Vienna reports that the Austrian public are demanding the importation of cheaper foreign meats to the extent of one-half the consumption of Vienna, which is estimated at 104,000,0001 b per annum. The Austrian Government have given permission for the further importation of 800 tons of Argentine meat, which is expected to reach Trieste by the A-ustro-American Line this month.

A further search is to be made for the Norwegian explorer Mikkelson and his companion, who are lost m Greenland. The expedition has been arranged by a Norwegian shipping firm, who .will despatch its whalers to the east coast of Greenland.

Two resolutions passed by a recent coii\ ference of orthodox Rabbis m London are receiving cpirited denunciations by the Jewish community. One of the resolutions was that dancing between men and women be discouraged, and the other was that greater care be taken to enforce the old law, commanding JeAvesses to % wear a shaitel, or ritual Ayig. The resolutions are described as verging on medieval intolerance, and calculated to imperil the unity of Anglo-Jewry. Few, outside elderly foreign matrons, are conforming to the wearing of the shaitel. Even the wives of ..the Rabbis regard the wig as a relic of Eastern Europe. The Fruit Importers' Union at New York have begun a unique crusade against the high tariff on fruit. Big shipments of lemons are arriving, and men with stencils have been stationed on the piers, painting pithy protests on every box of fruit. The" favorite inscriptions " were : — "lf lemons were free this box would cost 5s leas," or " The tariff is squeezing inc." The Portuguese Cabinet has arranged that the decree separating Church and State shall be finally proclaimed by Saturday. The beneficed clergy will be pensioned off after June 1, and all property that is necessary for the purposes of public worship will be ceded to the clergy free of cost, The

foreign clergy will be allowed to continue as heretofore, but all new cults must be authorised. An official 'Gazette' notifies the suppression of the bishopric of Beja, and orders proceedings to be taken against the bishop, who had been expelled for his activities against the provisional Government.

A message from Honolulu .states that tho grand jury inspected the. British eteaniev Orteric, which arrived there on the 13th inst. with 1,552 Portuguese immigrants, iukl on board of which no fewer than . ity-seven children died from measles duriu"' the voyage from Madeira. Allegatioiis have been made that tho ship's oÎ disregarded the regulations providing for the maintenance of hospitals on bo.mf? In extenuation of this charge, it is submitted that the immigrants carried were of- tho very lowest type, and that ifc would have been difficult to enforce sanitation. .The Portuguese Consul has taken an active pint m bringing about the investigation. A blind horse caused, a. sencation m Broadway, New York, by kicking through two plate-glaes windows. Jewellery worth £40,000 was scattered over the pavement cutfk!?. A strong cordon of police- was immediately -formed, and had great difficulty m pressing the crowd back,' while hundreds- of gems which wore amongst the jewellery were being picked up. What should constitute a pint .of beer is the interesting question, upon which the Munich courts have "just given a- decision. The point cropped up, during the hearing of a criminal case, m the course of which it was alleged that working men were swindled of huge sums annually, owing to the short measure with which they were served when calling for their "pint." It has now been definitely laid down that the standard measure, of pint or a. &lacs of lager must be all besr and no froth. The Ijjlinifiter of Internal Communications m Bavaria has issued an ordinanceregulating the . rates for accommodation charged by hotels m Munich. This action was necessary owing to the exorbitant prices that were being- demanded on account of the Passion Play at Oberanvmergau. Though the Kaiser's approaching visit to England was originally limited to two daj'e, his stay, at the special invitation of King George; may be prolonged to five days. Jt is reported that the AngloGerman negotiations for a general political understanding aro more advanced than is generally known.

With, a viev to promoting friendly relations between Koumania and Greece, negotiations are well under way to. bring about the marriage of Prince George of Greece with Princess Elizabeth, daughter of the Koumani.in Crown Prince. .

The advocates of the election of Senators by a direct vote of the people won a signal victory m the United States Senate, when the resolution passed by the House m favor of that reform was referred to the Judiciary Committee. Professor Schachner, at Berlin, referring to Australia's legislation for the -solution of social problems, says tliat the laws which have been framed proved that the Commonwealth considers first the interests of the whole community, and that the advance of the individual is secured by that -of the whole. Already, says the professor, Australia's social laws* show the dawn of a better time for that country, which has the least mortality among children and the least number of infecting maladies. He further points out that crime is diminishing m Australia, and that the Commonwealth has no degrading system of poor relief like Europe, inasmuch as -the State endeavors to guarantee a life standard to all those worthy of it.