BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Otago Witness, Issue 3031, 17 April 1912, Page 24

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Bim 1»U * I* ■* LONDON, April 8. Divers have so far recovered £190,000 » tVif> r s Oceana’s bullion. _ A gale wrecked Mr Grahame White s biplane during a low flight at Hendo . Mr White and two passengers escaped ecathkss. Apri l g The Naval and Military Emigration League is appealing for £IO,OOO to enable the ex-soldiers and sailors to emigrate. The league is at present selecting 300 exsoldiers for New South Wales. The imports for March increased £2,649,567, the exports decreased £149,941, and the re-exports increased £1,692,040, as compared with March, 1911. ’ „ April 10. King George has cordially endorsed tlie Primate’s appeal to the young clergy to volunteer for work as chaplains in India. He says he trusts that the Church of England will always realise that one part of her vocation is to minister to those who, amid peculiar trials of faith and circumstances of special isolation, are serving God in the great work of governing India. The King has accepted a small gold shield subscribed for by members of the Church Army, mostly in pence, and inscribed: “In gratitude to God for His protection of their Majesties during their Indian tour.” Lloyd’s return of vessels now under construction, exclusive of warsliips, shows an aggregate of 1,686,898 tons, which is n record. Captain James Morrison (U.) the member for Nottingham East, has resigned his seat in the House of Commons owing to ill-health. April 11. Tom Mann, speaking at Wednesbury, said; “ Parliament must be destroyed. I am going to rebel against society.” The Times declares that the British army in Egypt is dangerously low, especially in view of the possibilities resulting from the Turco-Italian war. It suggests that when troops are withdrawn from South Africa they should he sent to Egypt, wliich is incomparable as a training ground, being healthy and Inexpensive. , The Trinity College of Music lias reappointed Messrs Miskowski, Schikky, and St. George as examiners for Australasia. April 14. The Amalgamated Musicians’ Union has •ircularised the theatrical and music hall

managers asking that the minimum wages for chorus girls be 36s for six evening performances, and 4s for matinees. Mr Charles Bright, C.M.G., comments on the Imperial Government's progres i siveness in connection with interimperial | wireless telegraphy compared with its lukewarmness over the matter of Imperial cables. He suggests the appointment of a , commission to inquire into the relative values of cables and telegraphs. April 15. Mr Wilson, secretary of the United Kingdom Alliance, estimates the 1911 ; drink bill for the United Kingdom at 1 £162,797,229—an increase of £5,192,000 ! on the figures for 1910. PARIS, April 9. i A steel-clad motor car containing contraband tobacco valued at £IOOO dashed across the frontier at Hazebrouck from I Belgium. The officials poured in a hot | rifle fire, and riddled the tyres. The tobacco was jettisoned, and the car returned to Belgium. i April 13. ! A taxi-cab in the streets of Paris was demolished by nn infernal machine. The chauffeur and a passer-by were injured. The deed is believed to be the work of an Anarchist striker. I April 14. I A Servian student shot his fiancee dead in the street with a revolver, and then fled on his bicycle. The police pursued , him, and shots were exchanged,, the mur- . derer being killed. BRUSSELS, April 11. M. Monbach, the chief official in Albertville, in the Congo, has been sentenced to 10 years' penal servitude for punishing attacks upon messengers during j the military operations by ordering the execution of 11 natives, including four ! women and a child. HAMBURG, April 13. As a result of the Maritime Court inquiry into the Oceana-Pisagua collision the former was adjudged to have contravened the rules of the road. The Pisagua was held to be blameless. COPENHAGEN, April 15. A professor at Hanover has invented an electrical accumulator with five times the storage capacity of ordinarv accumulators. BERNE, April 14. 1 A boat containing a Swiss family on j Lake Constance, foundered. The father swam ashore with the girl, leaving his three I young boys clinging to the boat. They j all approved their father's choice that their sister should be saved first. Before the father »»-ani back the boys were drowned. BERLIN, April 8. The Parscval airship, built for Japan in Germany, had a successful trial.

April 11. 1 Owing to the movement for an inquiry I into the effects of Protection in the Fatherland, Dr Gotheim, a member of j the Reichstag, in an article in the i Tageblatt, predicts that an impartial ' inquiry will disclose the need of an en- ! tirely new economic policy. He affirms j that new commercial treaties have hin- ! dered rather than helped German exporters. April 14. The Kaiser, in a rescript, says he has j decided that the medical officer who re- ' fused on religious grounds |o fight one of his fellow officers in a duelcannot remain in the army, because he does not share his equal's views in such matters, but inasmuch as he did not give occasion for , the insult to which he was subjected he 1 is permitted as an act of grace to resign. The Government having abandoned its project for a State oil monopoly, German dealers are organising for the establish- , ment of a protection league, for the pur- ' pose of fighting the Standard Trust. LISBON, April 10. Motor omnibuses collided on a hill at Oporto, 100 persons being thrown over a precipice, of whom nine were killed and i seven are in a critical condition. VIENNA, April 15. | After a man named Labo, a land-owner, I had won an action against a man named Hansco, a neighbour, the latter fired at ' the judge. He missed, but with a second shot he killed Labo. Hansco then committed suicide. ROME, April 13. The International Tuberculosis Conference has opened. Thirty-three countries aro represented. ATHENS, April 10. ~Severe earthquakes are reported from Cephalonia and Ithaca. Several houses were destroyed. CONSTANTINOPLE, April 9. Juano Vitch, a former Montenegrin 1 Minister of Foreign Affairs, who was sentenced to 15 years' imprisonment in October, 1907, for treason, and who was incarcerated in a fortress at Podgorica, with his feet enchained, escaped with other conspirators by digging a subterranean passage. It took eight months to 1 dispose of the earth down a drain. He has reached Constantinople. Apri] 15. A Bulgarian hand destroyed a blockhouse with dynamite at Palanka, killing four Turkish soldiers. The band of dvnamitards was captured at Monastir. ADISABEBA, April 8. The Emperor and Empress of Abyssinia are reported to be in a critical state of I health.

I WASHINGTON, April 10. Two men named Kagan and Lichatkof, Social Democrats who escaped from Siberia, have been granted admission to the United States on the ground of being political refugees. i NEW YORK, April 10. A man named Edward Kinsman has confessed to a recent taxi-cab robbery, implicating others. Portion of the stolen jewellery has been recovered. Kinsman has been sentenced to 3£ years . in Sing Sing Prison. April 14. A tornado at Newcamoria (Missouri) levelled a number of houses, and several persons were killed. SAN FRANCISCO, April 11. The American schooner Americana, from Australia, reports the murder of Captain Benson. A Japanese cook was arrested and charged with killing the captain with a revolver. OTTAWA, April 8. The revenue for the fiscal year increased by 18,0p0,000d0l (£3,600,000), the total revenue being 132,000,000d0] (£26.400,000). The country's total net debt is £64,400,000. April 14. Three armed men held up the bank at Lamby, British Columbia, and wounded the manager. The robbers were caught. Dr Beattie Nesbitt, ex-president of the Farmers' Bank of Canada, which failed in 1911, has been arrested in Chicago and charged with falsely representing the bank's position. Investigation disclosed the alleged irregularities. CAPETOWN, April 10. Sir T. W. Smartt was unanimously elected Leader of the Opposition in the Union Parliament, in place of Sir L. Jameson, resigned. CALCUTTA, April 14. The Viceroy (Lord Hardinge) opened the Upper Cbenab section of the Punjab canal, which when completed will irrigate two million acres. i ■».