NEWS IN BRIEF.

Otago Witness, Issue 2924, 30 March 1910, Page 53

NEWS IN BRIEF.

The Lord Mayor of London has invited . team of Canadian Cadets to visit England on Empire Day. The .estate of the late Sir A. Hickman, ex-president of the "English Iron Trad© Association, has been sworn at £1,000,000. A Cotton Trade Reform Association has been inaugurated at Manchester. Many firms have joined. The attendance at the Royal Sydney chow on Friday was 78,000, and on Saturday it was 43,000. - The steamer Otway arrived at Fremaintle from England on the 22nd with a case pi smallpox aboard. The patient is' in the third tjlass compartments. Mrs Hinton's second child is dead .s the result' of injuries sustained by the explosion of a pirit lamp at Adelaide. Three high Lamas and their suites -have -reached the Indian frontier, and are<prooeeding to Dai'jeeling to consult the Dalai Lama. Mr Rearsley (Labour) has been elected unopposed for -the Northumberland seat jd the New South Wales Assembly,' vice Mr Charlton, who resigned in order to become a candidate at the Federal election. Th' annual conference, of the Australasian Commercial Travellers' Association was opened at Sydney on the 22nd. Mr F. H. King and Mr C. S. Owen represent New Zealand. Messrs Robinson .Bros., of Melbourne, «avc successfully' tendered for the supply ■»f 40 immimition waggons and limbers for the Commonwealth Government. The amount of the tender is £16,800. The Australian Shipping Conference reduced the measurement freight from Lonidon by mail steamers by 10s, and that •by cargo steamers, fine measurement ss, and others 2s 6d. •' ' Professoi Goldwin Smith, who sustained a broken thigh as the result of a fall early'last month, is recovering, and ,will orobably be able to leave his room Jfcortly. Sixty-three Australian naval brigade men have sailed from Adelaide to bring out destroyers to Australia. Arrangements have been concluded for sending a contingent of Australian Cadets to toui Eagland. The lads leave on May 18. i \

It is officially estimated that the floods in January at Nerrabri, N:S.W., caused >he loss of 25,000 sheep and 200 or 300 *arge stock. The Commercial Travellers' Conference resolved that hotelkeepers receiving the, association's certificate should be asked not to take in as permanent boarders persons suffering from . tuberculosis. Wireless telegraphy was successfully employed in connection with, the Easter encampments' in New South Wales, " Floods -caused serious-, damage to the cane 'fields in the Geraldton district (Queensland). A Chinese gardener is reported to have been drowned. . • President Taft, at the meeting of the National Geographical Society,- Washington, presented its gold medal to Sir E.Shackleton. It is expected that the British Miners' Federation will advise. the acceptance of the revised terms offered by the coal mineowners of South Wales. The drink bill of Germany is estimated at J 43 million sterling, which is twice the combined cost of her army and, navy, and five times that 'of education.

Mi Roosevelt gave a stirring address to the native journalists of Caro on their duties and responsibilities. A gun exploded on board the United States cruiser Charleston during target (practice at Manila, killing and wounding' eight men. ■ 'The dancing' room of an inn in the village of Mekoeriti, in Hungary, was destroyed by fire, and 250 persons were 'killed. The blazing roof fell in, and iburied many of the victims in- the debris. During a circus, show at Adelaide the electric, light short-circuited, and the lantern apparatus was destroyed. The audience, numbering 800, became panicstricken, and rushed the exits. No one .was injured. During the hearing of a side issue in •the English Court of Appeal it was shown ifchat Mr Henniker Heaton's action against CSoldney and the publishers of the Kentish -Gazete arose from Goldriey's letter accusing Mr Heaton of. .former, attempts to obtain _ a large sum of.mcmey from him as the p'tiee of his retirement from the representation of Canterbury. Coleman, . a bank clerk, who was earning £l2O a year, has been arrested at' Cam bridge (Massachusetts) on a charge of embezzling £SOOO. He admits gambling at faro, and not understanding the game. iHe entrusted the money to a confederate, who robbed him. There is a consensus of opinion in Calcutta that the prohibition of emigration will be &afa>«iAd uuleii. /*xq

ameliorates her treatment of free Indians.

The Hindu Nationalists of the Punjab have initiated a boycott of Mahommedan traders, and the boycott extends to the liberal professions. Heavy losses are consequently being incurred, as the Hindus generally are wealthier than oha others. A young man named Brindley, a resident of East Tamalci, riding a. bicycle on the Kybcr Pass road, Auckland, endeavoured to cross the cram line in front of the car. He was struck by the car and carried along some distance. Prompt assistrjrcie was rendered, but life was found to be extinct.