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Otago Witness, Issue 2735, 15 August 1906, Page 24

Tn order to prevent the importation of Chinese for the mines, Newfoundland is enforcing a poll tax of £60. A similar tax of £100 in British Columbia ie causing a great scarcity of unskilled labour in the Salmon canneries, and the proprietors are petitioning for a reduction in the amount. August 10. King Edward sent to the Ancient Order of Foresters, who are meeting at King's Lynn, a hearty welcome, acd said he was pleased to recognise in the order the same spirit of self-help and good-fellow-ship as prevailed amongst the other national friendly societies, in whose welfare his Majesty was so keenly interested. __ Seventy-five Alpine accidents have occurred during the present season, and there nave been 15 fatalities during the past fortnight. The Tribune states that Japan is pressing Russia for the overdue payment of the cost of maintenance of Russian prisoners of war. The convention between Great Britain and China has been published. China adheres to the Anglo-Thibetan Convention, and agrees to open some of the Thibetan markets to Indian trade, to construct telegraph lines; and to give Britain preference as regards railway concessions. Prior to the. race for the Worthing Plate the horse Marigold IV collided with the filly Centre, unseating the latter's jockey, H. O. Madden. Marigold then savagely attacked the fallen man, biting him badly in the face ' and peck. Madden states ' that Marigold suddenly reared and caught him by the neck and pulled him off the saddle and knelt over him, biting him savagely. Another jockey states that Marigold kept picking up Madden and shaking him like a rat. Brady, who was Marigold's rider, jumped off and attacked Marigold with his whip, finally beating him* off, otherwise Madden wc'ald undoubtedly have been killed. August 11. A man named Harry Elijah Bond, a contractor and a member of the Leyton Urban Council, was charged with having defrauded the West Ham Guardians of £200 .by supplying coal other than that contracted for. He pleaded guilty, and was sentenced to six months' imprisonment. Mr H. J. Gladstone (Home Secretary) has appointed a committee to inquire into the dangers attending building operations.' The committee will prepare whatever 'fresh regulations are found necessary to ensure the safety of workers. The new German armoured cruisers will Be increased to 15,000 tons displacement, and • will carry eight llin guns. Every shipyard is working at high pressure. The Daily Mail believes that the British cruisers of the Invincible type will . receive four 12in guns and eight or ten 9.5 in guns. A; London syndicate has chartered the 1 Steamer Naema to proceed to an un- 1 named island off the African coast in search of diamonds. It is reported that some diamonds, which were found on an island, were shown to Mr William Griffith, the late manager of the De Beers mine, by a seafaring friend, who subsequently died. Before his death the man gave Mr Griffith full particulars as to the location of the treasure on the island. Many influential personages are interesting themselves in the project, no fewer than 20 peers and eight judges being among the shareholders. August 12. After hearing extraordinary evidence regarding the marital relations of the Marquis of Townshend and the brokerage and commission paid to the introducer of the Marquis to Dr Suthero, the jury found that the Marquis was capable of taking care of himself, being neither dangerous to himself nor to others, but that he was of unsound mind so far as managing his affairs was concerned. Mr Justice Bucknell commented strongly on the part taken in this extraordinary and painful case by Dr Suthero, whose conduct reflected very little credit upon him $r his profession. In- February lasfc a reception order was granted by the Commissioners in Lunacy •gainst the Marquis to the Marchioness, and the Marquis was placed under the car© of his wife. The Dowager-Marchioness, {however, contended that her son was not jns«.ne, and insisted that there should bo a. public inquiry. The Marchioness was {Bliss Gladys Sutherst, and the marriage \$A some extraordinary, features. The

Marquis's estates had been impoverished by his near ancestors, and he decided to contract an advantageous marriage. A friend of his offered his services in selecting a bride, and a prospectus was drawn up, setting forth the advantages of a match with the Marquis. The friend introduced Miss Sutherst to the Marquis, and received, a promise of a brokerage of 10 p<?r cent, on whatever sum the bridegroom received from the bride's family. August 13. The Daily Mail's Aden correspondent reports that the mad Mullah attacker) and killed 1000 members of the Raresoron tribe, dwelling at Ogaden, on the Abyssinian frontier, and captured 10,000 camels. Despite Sir Edward Grey's firmness in obtaining from the Chinese Government reassurances concerning the Customs administration, Reuter's correspondent indicates that there is a strong feeling at Hongkong that tihe abolition of the new board and the reinstatement of Sir Robert Hart to his former powers is imperatively necessary to protect the interest of bondholders and to ensure fair treatment for traders. A correspondent informs The Times that the Persians long ago resented their humiliating subserviency to Russia, whose subsidies were bolstered by oppressive government. The collapse in Russia has intensified this feeling, and has precipitated Persian reforms. PARIS, August ?. The Matin says that the Pope has instructed the French clergy to accept the Separation Law preliminarily with a view of giving it a trial. The Figarr» urges the necessity of an increase in French artillery, owing to the dispaiity in the number of guns resulting from the recent renewal of German artillery. The latter has now 3500 available guns, against France's 2000. The cage fell in a coalpit at Marshienne, near Charleroi, killing nine miners. A serious dispute has "arisen between France and Turkey over the Sahara oasis of D janet, which was transferred to France under the terms of the recent AngloFrench Convention, which Turkey has never recognised. A Tunis correspondent states that both French and Turkish troops are racing to occupy the oasis. August 8. The Emerande, of the new type called a submarine cruiser, has been launched at Cherbourg. The vessel has a speed of 12 knots when submerged, with a higher speed on the surface, which enables her to accompany a fleeii Two other vessels of a similar nature are being built. General Negrier and General Andre fought a duel in Paris owing to certain statements made in the latter's memoirs. General Andre fiied, but missed his adversary, lrho did not reply. Mrs Maude Gonne Macßride has been granted a separation, but tfie court refused her a divorce. August 9. A divorce was not granted in the action brought by Mrs Macßride on the ground that she and her husband were Irish and that Irish Catholics did not permit divorce, and also owing to the fact that her husband's domicile wa6 in Ireland. August 10. The Matin and other newspapers state that the % Pope makes a distinction with regard to the acceptance of submission under the separation law. He forbids Public Worship Associations, but permits Canonical Associations, the membership of such to be, under the approval of the priests and bishops. BERLIN, August 10. The Rheinsche Zeitung publishes a letter from a soldier in South-West Africa stating that a scouting expedition captured five women. As it was impossible to shoot them, lest the noise should alarm the natives in the vicinity, the women were bayoneted by the officers' orders. LISBON, August 12. The seamen of the Dom Carlos and other ships of the Portuguese navy who mutinied in Lisbon Harbour on April 9 are awaiting their trial at Lisbon. They belonged to the Black Cross secret society, which is supposed to be revolutionary and to have ramifications of a very widespread nature amongst the men of the fleet. ROME, August 6. The cause of the fire at the Milan Exhibition, which destroyed the decorative arts section, and did damage to the extent of £500,000, kae been traced to Anarchists.

August 9. A youth whose family fortune had gone to the Propaganda, entered the Vatican during a public audience and asked Cardinal Valpe for assistance. On being refused he boxed the Cardinal's cars. ST. PETERSBURG, August 11. The diary of M. Politovsky, who was Admiral Bozhdestvensky's chief engineer when the Baltic fleet proceeded to take part in the Russo-Japanese war, has just been published. In describing the Dogger Bank outrage, when the fleet fired on a number of trawlers, M. Poljtovsky says : "The Russian fleet suspected that Japanese torpedoers were all round. We allowed the ships that were sighted ahead to come near, and we then let fly. Words fail to describe the disgraceful action that followed. Small fishing vessels, tossing helplessly in the sea, served as targets, and we concentrated our guns on them. The second and third steamers were helpless, and not a soul was on deck. Admiral Suvtroff did not fire on these. They were probably fishermen, but they were greatly to blame, as at our approach they ought to have abandoned their nets and hastened aside. The world will ring with- this shameful outrage.'' August 12. The Bourse Gazette of this city, reports that the programme of the Ministry of Marine includes some 2Q,000-ton battleships, with a speed of 21 knots. They are j to be o.Dnstructed # in the Russian yards. BELGRADE, August 8. Sixty anti-regicide Servian officers have been dismissed for calling a great meeting demanding that the army be purged of regicides. j CONSTANTINOPLE, August 11. I The Sultan of Turkey is ill, and there is much excitement in Constantinople in consequence of a rtimour that an operation will have to be performed. August 13. Though the Sultan of Turkey is in -a . critical condition, his life is in no "immediate danger. { TEHERAN, August 11. J The Shah has granted the people's demands, and the refugees have left the British Legation, while the fugitive priests have returned to Teheran. j At the end of last month the Shah of Persia dismissed the Grand Vizier Ained Doulaha, whose repressive policy caused unrest in Teheran, and resulted in 868 students, shopkeepers, and artisans takinpr refuge in the British Embassy, fearinpr , persecution. j August 12. J The Shah of Persia has decided to form a National Council composed of representatives of the princes and clergy, the royal tribe of nobles, the merchants, and j the tradesmen. Each member of the ' Council is to be elected by his peers. j WASHINGTON, August 10. j To avoid disturbance in the silver mar- • ket at Washington, the United States . Treasury obtains control of considerable j future deliveries of silver. ! NEW YORK, August b. Mr Daniel Bnird Wesson, a millionaire of Springfield, and head of the well-known firm of Spring and Wesson, revolver manufacturers, died of anxiety caused by the Italian Black Hand Secret Society's demand and threat of blackmail. August 7. : The Milwaukee Avenue State Bank has closed owing to shortages amounting to 1,000,u00d01, chiefly due to real estate speculation and commeicial ventures. Several of the officials are missing. There was a great run on the bank, and the services of the police were necessary to quell a disturbance. The Milwaukee Avenue Bank is a Chicago institution. , A great heat vave is sweeping over i New York. Eight deaths from apoplexy are reported. Thousands are sleeping in the parks, on the ftotpathe, and 011 Coney Island beach. August 8. Heavy rains rmi<t.d the Colorado River to overflow and devastate Southern Texas. Several towns have been isolated and relief trains cut off. The wires are down. Twenty-five persons are known to have been drowned, and hundreds are homeless. The death-roll is growing larger hourly. j Bogus notes representing £140,000 have been found in the Milwaukee Bank's vaults. A warrant has been issued against Stansland, the chairman, who is believed to have escaped to Canada. His son Theodore has been arrested on a charge of

accepting deposit* knowing the bank to be insolvent. August 9. Johnson, a balloonist, at Little Falls, in the State of New York, quitted his balloon at a height of 3000 ft. His parachute was not working, and he tried unsuccessfully to open another at a height of. 1000 ft, and was killed in the presence of thousands of spectators. Mr Elihu Root, Chief Secretary of State, who has been attending the Pan-American Congress at Rio de Janeiro, in a speech at Santos, said that in the near future Brazil and the United States, acting together, would form a single and eternal guarantee for the integrity of America. Theodore Stensland, of the Milwaukee Bank, who has been arrested on a charge of accepting "deposits knowing the bank to be insolvent, offers to hand all his father's real estate and personal property to the official receivei*. It is believed that the depositors in the Milwaukee Bank will be paid in full. August 10. For the first time since 1893 the Treasury at Washington has resumed the purchase of silver bullion for subsidiary coinage. One hundred thousand ounces are required weekly. Mr Watcborn (United States Commissioner) is, visiting Europe with the intention of inquiring as to whether the measures for eliminating undesirables at the sources of supply and obviating 9 fruitless voyage can be improved, upon. August 12. Fifty thousand people are still living in tents in San Francisco. The erection of business premises is monopolising attention. No skilled or other labour is available for house con. etruction. August 13. The first conviction obtained in 'the ' State of Caiolina for lynching negroes hag been secured at Salisbury, where a ringleader named Hall has been sentenced to 15 years' imprisonment. 1 The Panama Canal Company is eugag- j ing 2500 Chinese coolies for work on the ' canal. j OTTAWA, August 12. I British Columbia, proposes to import Hindoos in order to relievo the labour difficulty, the poll tax of £100 levied on Chinese immigrants having caused a shortage of labour in connection with the salmon canneries. RIO DE JANEIRO, August 12. The police at Sergipi, in Brazil, revolted and attacked the Governors palace. CAPETOWN, August 7. After an unemployed deputation had waited on Dr Jameson, the Premier, a number of hooligans, largely coloured persons, pillaged the shops in the poorer quarters. August 8. The Cape Colony Government is making representations to Lord Elgin (Colonial Secretary) (showing the danger to Cape interests involved in railway competition from German and Portuguese territory. Strong measures are being concerted in Capetown in order to restrain the coloured population, whose disturbance is attributed partly to Ethiopianism. JOHANNESBURG, August 12. Two hundred Chinese on the Rand have applied for repatriation under the first notice, and 370 under the second. TOKIO, August 8. The Mikaea. Admiral Togo's flagship, which vrae 6unk after an explosion caused by a fire which broke out on board on September 12. 1905, while hhe was anchored off Sasebo, has been refloated. August 12. Japan will make no protect to America respecting the- shooting of the Japanese <eal fiahcifi off the coast of Alaska.

ili<? States of part of their surplus for tha I purpose. . The Federal Government is calling for tenders for the deportation of the kanakas next month. The Government undertakes fuU, responsibility in the- matter, and the Queensland Government has promised its cordial co-operation in the work. It is estimated that conveyances will have to be provided for 2500 persons. August 9. The Juvenile Smoking Prevention Bill has passed the State Assembly. The official correspondence in connection ■with decimal- coinage was laid on tha table of the Federal House of Representatives. Sir J. Forrest states that when in London he was informed that the Imperial Government was willing to credit Ausralia with the profit on silver coins used in Australia, but it objected to a separate currency of different denominations being introduced into the Commonwealth, as it would further break the uniformity of th» Empire's currency. August 12. An earth tremor was experienced a* Mirboo'on Friday night, and lasted fouc seconds. Articles on shelves rattled, butf no damage was done. - > " August 13. The. steamer Larese, from Capetown;, brings news of a fire aboard the BurgermeiKter Hackmann, which was en route to • Australian and New Zealand ports. Shs put into Capetown to repair an accident to her pumps. While lying in Table Bay i a fire was discovered, her 6pare bunker I coal having ignited in three separate places. Luckily the fire was found before it had damaged either the vessel or cargo. , Seven hundred tons of coal had to bo removed before the seat of the outbreak was reached. When, the Laresz left Capetown the fire was reported to be practi* cally under, and it was expected that th: 1J urgermeister would resume her voyage iv a day or two. • SYDNEY/, August 7. The 20001b of tobacco grown at Tumut» , which was awarded the prize offered by) j the British Australasian Tobacco Company, ' and purchased by the company at 8d a. pound, realised 4d to 4£d on the London market. August 8. A heavy easterly gale is raging at Norfolk Inland. The wind attained a velocity of 75 miles an hour, and heavy seas prevail. The timber-laden vessels which arrived from New Zealand to-day report having had protracted passages, this being dn» to a long succession of westerly and southwesterly gales. , % August 9. An _ application was granted, on the motion of the defendant, ordering a stay, of proceedings in the cafie of Crick versus Mr Justice Owen. The court :00k t}»« view that Mr Justice Owen, as Lands Commissioner, was endowed with the powers and ioirmmkies of the Supreme Court. Madame Dolores was accorded a tremendous ovation in the Town Hall on her i reappearance in Australia. The Premier was questioned in the Assembly as to whether be was awarethat tramp steamers, manned by Chinese, I Norwegians, and other foreigners at low, wages, were at present engaged between Australia and New Zealand in unfair competition with vessels which were manned by Britishers and colonial?. The Premier promised to investigate the matter. It is persistently stated in shipping circles that negotiations are proceeding' between the New Zealand and the Commonwealth Governments with the objecb of arranging that the steamers of the