NEWS IN BRIEF.

Otago Witness, Issue 2978, 12 April 1911, Page 52

NEWS IN BRIEF.

The issue of Panama bonds has been provisionally fixed for June 1. . Grasshoppers have devastated _ the crops in the Gundagai district, N.S. Wales. Promising wolfram tinds ai v, e reported from the Northern Territory of Australia. Sixty couples celebrated their golden weddings in Rheimscn the 9th inst. A new theatre, the Adelphi, has been opened in, Sydney. It cost £30,000. Mrs Ella Wilson has been elected Mayor of Hunnerwell, U.S.A. _ The Gernian Crown Prince and Grown Princess have arrived at Brindisi. The next international bahoon race will start from Kansas City on the 9th of OccoAr child at Townsville, Queensland, opened a trunk, when the lid fell on its neck and suffocated it. _ , Mr Craigie Lippincott, nead of the Lippincott Publishing Company. U.S.A.. shot himself. John Timmins, aged 110, died in the Gollarenebu Hospital. N.S. Wales, after a lingering illness.' Heffner’s portrait of Mrs Beridge was sold by auction at Christie’s, London. It realised £6510. An All-Empire shopping week, as a sequel to the All-British shopping week, is projected. . . The new ordnance prohibits Asiatics and aliens from obtaining tin dredging leases in the Northern Territory. There is an epidemic of boy suicides in Berlin, which is attributed to the reading of cheap, sensational literature. Asi the result of the fire at Roseneath Castle, the Princess Louise’s studio was destroyed. The Easter rush to Sydney is phenomenal. . Every place of accommodation is overcrowded. Bowron Bros., London, have been admitted to bail, and a further remand has been granted. A special steamer has been chartered to convey a large party of Federal members on a six-week’s trip to Papua. A pilgrim’s banquet will be accorded to Mr Asquith, the Prime Minister, on May 25 at the Savoy. The Howard Smith Company has let a contract for the fitting of its steamers with wireless telegraphy. Mr Newton Jones, evangelist for the London Sunday School Union, has arrived at Fremantle on a visit to Australia and New Zealand. The Sydney Hospital has secured 23 parcels of radium, • valued at £4200. This is the largest order the hospital has ever placed. ■ Mr W. W. Astor has purchased the newspaper the Observer. Mr J. L. Garvin will continue to hold, the position of editor. The British add Australasian Trust and Loan Coippahy has declared a dividend of 5 per cent." and-a bonus of Is per share. Mr Asquith is suffering from a cold, and was unable to attend the dinner given to Sir J. Fuller, the new Victorian Governor. The coal exported from Newcastle. N.S. Wales, last quarter increased by 634.000 tons, compared with the col-responding

period of the previous year. In a letter to The Times, Sir G. H. Reid pays a tribute to the services rendered by the late Mr Moberley Bell to the country. Lord Crewe’s son was christened at the Chapel Royal, St. James. The King and Lord Rosebery (Lord Crewe’s father-in-law), as sponsors, signed the register. At Portland (Oregon) submarines and mines are to be placed at the mouth of the Columbia River. No explanation has been offered. A well-dressed kleptomaniac who was arrested' in a. large store in Paris, refused to give her name when taken into custody. She hanged herself with a belt to a grating in the cells. Referring to a proposal to introduce into Australia time-expired Indian soldiers from India, Mr Holman said the Government did net want worn-outs, but men able to bring up families. Miss Lalla Miranda has been engaged as a member of the Quinlan Opera Company’s Australian and New Zealand tour of 1911-12, which opens in Melbourne in May next with “The Tales of Hoffman. ■ I.n order to meet the Sydney wharf labourers’ objections to handling cement in bags, the Portland Cement Company proposes to use paper linings. The union is considering if the men shall handle the bags. ] Miss Roberts, of the New Zealand I Women’s Christian Temperance L T nion, who

is returning homo from the World's Convention, addressed the Sydney union on her work in Ireland, where she spent several months. A robber secured £2OO worth o'f slimes from the Menzies gold mine. Western Australia, and was escaping on a bicycle when a. constable intercepted him. The robber fired two harmless shots at the policeman, then 'dropped the slimes and escaped. Mr Churchill has been awarded damages for slander by a Conservative working man, who at a Chagford meeting accused Mr Churchill of breaking his parole. An apology is now offered, with the promise not to repeat the slander Some Cossacks plundered and murdered rine German colonists at Alutskain. in the Northern Caucasus. Thirty armed Terrorists attacked' the postal van. at Turek, Russia, killing a gendarme and two policemen., They tlv3n oHnamited the van and stole 47,000 roubles (about £4700). A section of the populace at Canillas proclaimed a republic, and attacked the barracks and the Civil Guard. Five persons were wounded. Reinforcements have been sent.

The Right Hon. Sir A. C. Lyall. author and lecturer on English history, died suddenly while the gruest of Lord Tennyson at the Isle of Wight, in his seventy-seventh year. On retiring from the position of editor of the Ashburton Mail and Guardian Mr John Christie was Presented by the literary and mechanical stnff with a handsome writing desk and an illuminated address. Mr Christie feelingly T'?r> Hed.