BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Otago Witness, Issue 2949, 21 September 1910, Page 24

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

LONDOJN, September 12. The Transatlantic Company is completing a New York passenger liner. She will have a length of 686 ft, be fitted with Jurbine engines, and have a speed of jnots. Lord Tennyson, the Rev. Charles Booth. Mr William Jlossetti, and others carried the late Mr Holman-Hunt's ashes in a marblo urn, placed on a bier and covered with Day leaves, to St. Paul's Cathedral, and there deposited the urn in the painters' corner. . September 13. Reuter advises that at a private conference the executive of the Pure Food Congress (Paris) decided that the next congress shall be held in England in 1911. Meanwhile the delegates of the various Governments have internationalised the methods of analysis; hence in future foods subjected to analysis must conform to the international standard. Mr Albert Hoch, a well-known Liverpool cotton broker, was killed in a motor accident, and Mr Hodnet and his wife were injured. Half a ton of saccharine, valued at £I7OO, has been stolen from Southwark. There have been no arrests. The five Chinese lawyers who were commanded by the Emperor to tour the world are impressed with Scotland Yard, the Old Bailey, and the Law Courts. They state that it is the intention of the Chinese to institute police reforms. Mr Lloyd George has convened a small conference at the Treasury for to-morrow, and has invited the attendance of those specially conversant with land-owners' difficulties in filling up the land tax form. Three million pounds' worth of six months' Treasury bills have been allotted at an average discount of £2 19s 9d per cent. Mr Claude Meynell, on behalf of the Clarke-Meynell Company, has arranged to produce the musical comedy " The Chocolate Soldier " in Australia. The same firm has engaged Miss Ethel Irving and her London company for Australia in 1911. Mr Derwent Wood, the sculptor, has been commissioned to execute the first statue of General Wolfe in the British Empire. It will consist of bronze, the figure will be 93in high, and it is to be irected at Wolfe's birthplace, Westerham (Kent), on January 2 (the 184th anniversary of his birth). September 14. Captain Boyle has been severely reprimanded for negligence in connection with

the stranding of the cruiser Duke of Edinburgh. « Mr Snowden, the Labour member for Blackburn, in an article on the outlook for trade unionism,, emphasises the fact that the existence of a crisis is far more i serious than the Osborne case. He says j that members are seriously divided ' against themselves, and unless wisdom can prevail and unity be restored the trade unions will be disintegrated and destroyed. Ernest Mileson, radiographer at the London Hospital, and a martyr to the i X-rays, has been operated on for the sixth time. He is relinquishing X-rays j work. ' I Ninety-six Territorial officers resigned ! during the month of August. A special committee unanimously recommends the Clyde Navigation 1 Trustees to construct a Dreadnought ■ graving dock at Renfrew. September 15. South Australia has an excellent display of food products at the Grocers' ! Exhibition, Islington. Forecasts in India indicate a shortage ,of eight million bales of jute. The ! markets in London and Dundee are excited. There has been an advance from 70s to 380 s since Friday. The Imperial Conference next year will consider the recognition of the High Commissioners of the oversea dominions as l political representatives, naturalisation, inter-imperial migration, and the steps to ! be taken to exclude from Great Britain foreign undesirables who have been expelled from the dominions. September 16. Mr Ponting, Captain Scott's artist and photographer, is a passenger by the Mace donia. Mr Joseph Devlin, M.P., in a letter to the Government, urges the institution of a public inquiry into sweating in the linen trade at Belfast. The estate of the late Hon. C. S. Rolls is valued at £30,925. Three milkmen who had been terrorising South London were sentenced to two months' imprisonment. Their successful burglaries were the result of their knowledge that the families were absent holi-day-making. Property relating to 15 burglaries was discovered. Contrary to Mr D. J. Shackleton's advice, the Trades Union Congress, by 1,147,000 votes to 272,000, condemned the Labour Exchanges as now managed, and demanded the communication to trade union officials of the particulars regarding wages offered through . the exchanges ; secondly, the enforcement of trade union rates; and, thirdly, the not filling of I vacancies due to disputes.

September 18. The Czar and his children and the Grand Duke and Duchess of Hesse, when motoring near Friedberg, collided with a waggon, which was flung into a ditch. The party transferred to another car, and had a second collision when returning.The Egyptian Nationalists propose to meet in Brussels. France's prohibition of their meeting was dictated by friendship for Great Britain, and because the leaders were manifesting pan-Islamic tendencies. September 19. Five hundred natives of Leicester, who are emigrating to Australia, New Zealand, and America, have just held a reunion, the festivities extending over a week. The Union Jack Industries League proposes to guarantee a fund of £500,000 for an exhibition in 1915 displaying the agricultural and manufacturing capabilities of the Empire, each Dominion erecting its own building. PARIS, September 12. Thfc Dockers' Union at Havre voted the death of a " blackleg," who was murdered. The Temps demands the condign punishment of those who were guilty of this "deliberate and ferocious murder." September 13. Ninety French chambers of commerce recommend the inauguration of penny postage with Great Britain. September 14. The French Minister of Public Works is establishing national touring bureaux, and is centralising information and increasing facililties for travel throughout France. September 15. Mademoiselle Claudia Jancowacapa, a well-known Russian actress, was found shot in her hotel in Paris, where she lived alone. The son of a St. Petersburg banker, who was in the room, declares that she committed suicide. The Echo says that France has prohibited tiie proposed meetings of the Egyptian Nationalists in Paris. BRUSSELS, September 13. Great Britain's renunciation of all claims for compensation arising out of the Exhibition fire is warmly appreciated here. September 19. Two hundred members of the British Institute of Journalists are visiting Belgium as the guests of the Brussels Exhibition Committee. BERLIN, September 16. The Kaiser is selling Wilhelmsthall Castle, near Rassel. He has refused an offer 0f'3,000,000 marks. September 17. The Socialist candidate defeated the

National Liberal at the bye-election for Frankfurt-on-Oder. This makes the ninth Socialist victory in succession at bye-elec-tions. September 18. As Lady Bache Cunard was leaving the opera-house at Munich a motor car dashed on to the pavement, killing two other ladies and overthrowing Lady Cunard and her friend. Both were extricated from under the car, and were found to be uninjured. MADRID, September 16. Senor Macias Casanova, the eminent novelist, was electrocuted in this city by coming into contact with the electric tramway. His body was completely carbonised. j LISBON, September 19. Sixteen Liberal peers have been created in Lisbon, giving the party a majority in the Upper House. King Manuel conciliated the Liberals by granting an amnesty to the Republican journalists. VIENNA, September 14. The Emperor Francis Joseph, in replying to Lord Rosebery's address, referred to King Edward of dear memory. He said: "I am happy to maintain "ties of profound friendship with the third generation of the British Royal Family." The Emperor's cordiality" is reflected in the Austro-Hungarian press. ROME, September 14. During a cyclone in the Gulf of Taranto the Italian warships dragged at their anchors, and some collided, doing damage to the extent of £40,000. ATHENS, September 14. King George of Greece has opened the National Assembly on its meeting after the recent general election. ST. PETERSBURG, Sentember 13. Three hundred houses at Kavkas. a suburb of Tsaritsin, were burned to the ground, and 4000 people are homeless. The fire ie still raging, and threatens the timber yards on the banks of the river Volga, FEZ. September 19. Mulai Hand has pardoned his brother Mulai Kebir. the Pretender, who was the cause of unrest on the Algerian frontier. WASHINGTON, September 13. Mr Lawrence Murray, Comptroller of the Currency, addresfinj,' the bank supervisors, declared that the weak banks would be forced into liquidation in order fo prevent the continuance of big overdrafts, which during June amounted to £26,000.000. His department was unable to control existing conditions. NEW YORK. September 13. Gold dust to the value of 57,000 dollars was mysterioufly stolen from the steamer Humboltk while she was &n route to Seattle from Fairbanks. Pig lead was found instead. [

Twelve people were killed as the result of a fall of rock in a cutting on th* Erie railway at Jersey City, and 10 were injured. It is believed" that 15 members of a launch party were drowned at Belling"ham (Washington). The launch has not been found. At San Rafall (California) Miss Florence Pardu, the daughter of a former Governor wpi California, was killed in a motor .smash. At Nashville (Tennessee) two negroes were lynched for attempted assault on white girls. September 14. The town of Kassan (Alaska), which was mainly concerned with canning, haa been destroyed by fire. Two miners were killed and five injured by an explosion caused by a defective miner's lamp at Linton, in the State of Indiana. Three hundred men had just been moved from the shaft. Ernest Gerbracht, a former superintendent at the Williamsburg sugar refinery, was .sentenced to two years' imprisonment and fined 5000dol for conspiracy, in conjunction with excise officials, to defraud: the Government. September 15. The Yosemite Falls, in California, which were drying up as a result of a drought, were restored to activity with appalling suddenness. A cloud burst, and a wall of water swept down. The roar was beard milea away. A panic ensued at the hotels, but' the guests were uninjured. The Controller of the United States National Banks has ordered suspected tinsound institutions to strengthen their position in the next three weeks. The alternative will be compulsory liquidation. Adolph Rothbarth, of the London office of the firm of Martin, Rothbarth,and Co., hop dealers, pleaded " Guilty " at New York to a charge of the lav. eny of £2OOO from the banks. He awa ; ie trial. Tlie amount altogether involved exceeds £20,000. George W. Fitzgerald, an ex teller in the Chicago Sub-treasury, has been arrested on a charge of the theft of £30,000. Washington estimates of the world's wheat crop state that the acreage is larger than that of last year. The yield will be small, but the quality better. Mr Robert C. Winter, a municipal oflicer in New York, uniquely resigns his post, which is worth 4000dol a year, because he .says there is no need for such an official. Sept-ember 16. Mr 6 Winship, aged 80 years, has been

enrolled as a student at Columbus (Ohio) University. The area swept by the forest- fires in the States of Montana and Idaho cowprised 15,000 acres. A female teacher named Bellinghair. saved her pupils from being burnt in a forest fire by leading them into the surf. A movement has been started to give her a medal tor her valour. September 18. The late Aaron Burnett, of New York, a blockade runner during the Civil War, has left an estate valued at £40,000,000 to his son and daughter. A niece and grandchildren will contest the will. BOSTON, September 16. Congressman Watson, an ex-Republican Whip, admits that the next Congress will be Democratic. SAN FRANCISCO, September 16. The police force of San Francisco is a hotbed of graft, and the Mayor has given orders for its reorganisation. He also orders that the dance halls must be closed OTTAWA, September 12. The Labour Congress, which will meet at Fort William, will discuss the question of the formation of a Canadian party. September 14. The official report of the GovernorGeneral's (Earl Grey) overland Hudson Bay tour is favourable to the adoption of the proposed grain Toute, which, it says, is as pleasant as summer sailing on the Atlantic. Navigation is easy for four months of the year. September 16. The Canadian Government is ready to open Tariff negotiations with the United States. VANCOUVER, September 13. Forest fires have destroyed the township of Whiterock, and many farmhouses over an area of 30 miles south of Vancouver. September 16. A band of masked Tobbers held up two automobile parties at Portland (Oregon), and secured much money and jewellery. September 18. Professor Ross, of Wisconsin, a Chinese traveller, on being interviewed here, declared that China was on the verge of a crisis and a revolution —peaceable or other \vis«. HONGKONG, September 14. Sir Frederick Kugard, Governor of Hongkong, has appealed for £IOO,OOO in order to place the university of Hongkong on a thoroughly satisfactory basis. PEKING, September 19. The Chinese welcome to the foreign delegates of the Chambers of Commerce of the United States and the Pacific coast was extremely cordial. The delegates are now at Hangchow, and thence they will proceed to Nanking.