NEWS IN BRIEF.

Otago Witness, Issue 2996, 16 August 1911, Page 52

NEWS IN BRIEF.

Latest news states that there is little improvement in connection with the strike of transport workers in London, Liverpool, and Glasgow. All the leading railways have decided to resist the strikers’ demands, and to insist on the resumption of work and an appeal to a Conciliation Board. A Sydney cable states that there is a strong and active demand for wheat. Spot parcels are quoted at 3s Bd. The Millers’ Association has advanced flour ICs a ton. Best brands are £3 10s. Melbourne reports a similar advance. A serious race war is feared at Durant (Oklahoma); following the burning of a negro who had assaulted a white woman. A posse of white men found the negro ■ascaning across country, and fired a volley at the fugitive, who fell pierced by bullets. The body was then burned. A cable from Aden states that the steamer Fiteshiro went ashore 20 miles south of Gape Guavdafui, and sank. Seventy-five passengsrs and crew were landed at Aden. Two boats with 30 souls aboard are missing. The . .. PV British Transport is searching for them. ,e total quantity of wheat and flour afloat for tho United' Kingdom is 2,880,000 quarters, and for the Continent 1,670.000 quarters. The Atlantic shipments were 258.000 quarters. Hie total supplies are:— Europe, 880,000 quarters; Argentine, 60.000 quarters; Russia. 265,000 quarters; Damibian provinces. 70,000 quarters; India. 111.000 quarters; and Australasia, 20.000 quarters. . A motion was passed at the last meeting of the ospital and Charitable Aid Board to consider the ad visibility of purchasing alive all requirements in the way of meat, and also the advisability of keeping its own •grocery stove. Mr J. F. Arnold, M.P. for Dunedin

Central, and Mr T. K. Sidey, M.P. ror Dunedin South, have declined to sign the pledge of the Dunedin Branch of the New Zealand Labour party. Both take exception to the stipulation that if nob selected by the Labour party they shall refrain from, standing for Parliament. One of the bluejackets of H.M.S. Challenger has written to the Auckland papers expressing the indignation felt by himself and his shipmates at being refused admittance to one skating rink while in uniform, and at not being allowed on the floor in another rink.