BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Otago Witness, Issue 3040, 19 June 1912, Page 37

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

LONDON, June 10. The Home Secretary (Mr M'Kemna) has transferred the Lawrences and Mrs "Pankhurst to the first division, on condition that they refrain from inciting their followers to illegal acts while they are im-

prisoned. The estate of the. late Mr W. T. Stead has been proved at £13,000. The codicil id missing. A court of arbitrators is hearing the National Telephones Company's claim of 20 millions against the Imperial Post Office. The Court of Appeal has upheld the conviction of Errico Malatesta, who was sentenced on May 21 to three months' imprisonment, and who will afterwards be deported for libelling M. Beliilli by alleging that the latter was an Italian police spy. Malatesta is a prominent militant Anarchist, and has thrice been sentenced to death. At the trial the police gave evidence that Malatesta was connected with the Hounsditch murderers. June 11. The Daily Mail protects against the half measures implied in the Malta programme. It says the Government is shirking instead of boldly facing the Mediterranean problems, and adds : —" We are not entitled to ask another Power, however warm and sincere a friend it may be, to remedy the consequence of our negligence." - ° & June 12. Mr Horatio \Bottomley has been adjudicated a bankrupt. John Todd, a quarryman, was sentenced to five imprisonment for setting fire to 10* farmsteads on the Duke of Buc-. cleuch's estate at Thomhill. Lord Northland (eldest son of Lord Ranfurly) and Miss Hilda Cooper were married to-day in St. Margaret's, Westminster. June 13. The Hon. Mr Foster, of Canada, in addressing the Royal Colonial Institute, said that if the population of the dominions continue to increase, within the next 5P years there would be a great alteration 'in the relative positions between the heart of the Empire and the outlying parte. Mr Pierpont Morgan has purchased from the Bedford Library Committee John Bunyan's copy of " Foxe's Book of Martyrs " for £2OOO. The late Mr Wernher has left his eldest son Herrick £150,000, of which he receives £I2OO yearly until he is 30, when he will have £2400. The remainder of the capital accumulates for the benefit of his widow and children. The other sons receive one and a-half millions and a million respectively, and Sir Starr Jameson (Dr " Jim ") £IO,OOO. Lightning killed three men who were working in a brick kiln in Middlesbrough. A fourth is not expected to recover. Eight suffragettes were arrested for smashing the windows of public buildings in Dublin. June 14. Mr Vernon Hartshorne, the Labour Leader,' is leading a campaign against the Socialists in South Wales. June 15. After holding a reception at Buckingham Palace the King and Queen had prolonged conversations with Mr Philip and Mr Paxton (two of the delegates to the Chambers of Commerce Congress) on colonial affairs. The Right Hon. Mr Borden (Prime Minister of Canada) has arrived here on a three weeks' visit. He makes the fifth Canadian Minister in England. His chief object is to discuss Canada's share in Imperial defence. It is intended to proffer immediate and effective ard. June 16. King George held a chapter of the Garter at Windsor Castle. Their Majesties and knights formed a picturesque procession to St. George's Chapel. King George afterwards visited Harrow on "Speeches" day. He addressed the boys, and said he was confident that the school would continue to furnish men to govern and defend the Empire. The Sleeping Sickness Commission has proved that the tsetse fly, known a* Glossina morsitans, is a carrier of the disease which i 3 well known as Glossina palpalis. Significance is found in the fact that while palpalis is frequent it is limited to the region in which it is found, while morsitans is widespread, and therefore difficult to exterminate. Messrs S. Pearson and Son have signed a contract for a new dock to be built south of the Royal Albert Dock, at a cost of £1,400,000. Its length will be 4500 ft, its width 600 ft, its depth 35ft, and the water area 65 acres. Two hundred and sixty-one thousand eight hundred and nine emigrants left the United Kingdom in 1911, of whom 210,000 went to British possession's. Those who went to Australia and ' New Zealand increased by 55,000. The members of the small unregistered friendly societies in Kent, believing that Mr- Lloyd George is likely to confiscate their funds, have decided to share out their capital funds. PARIS, June 12. Lecturing at the Academy of Sciences, Professor Metchnikoff claimed the discovery of a long-life microbe. It produces sugar, and reduces the intestinal poisons. The microbe has been tried ■with excellent results on animals. June 17. In debating the question of the tem-

porary free admission of wheat, the Minister of Commerce stated that speculators must renounce all hope for the suppression of duties. The Government was considering the problem of increasing the floating stock of corn by authorising the Ministers oi War and Marine to obtain their supplies abroad. BERNE, June 16. A military balloon successfully alighted on Mt. Pilatus, where it was packed and drawn on sledges down the rocky slopes to Lucerne. BERLIN, June 11. The German bank rate of discount is 4£ per cent. June. 16. A controversy is proceeding over the purchase for the Kaiser's museum of Van der Goe's painting the " Adoration of the Magi" for £40,000 at public auction at Madrid. The Spanish Government has declined to allow the picture to be removed. Both Prussia and Bavaria for the year 1911 showed a falling off in population of over 100,000. The Government is organising an inquiry. MADRID, June 16. Koryciorz was sentenced to 15 years' penal servitude for having bombs in his possession. Incriminating letters were found in his house suggesting that he was a member of the secret society at Cracow which planned the bomb outrage on the Kaiser's train on November 26, 1910. VIENNA, June 15. The Ruthenian Deputies, profiting by the Government's anxiety to pass a Defence Bill, stonewalled the measure and attempted to force the creation of a Lemberg University. One deputy spoke uninterruptedly for 13 hours, and was removed in an unconscious condition. A schoolmaster named Andorter, his wife, and eldest son poisoned three younger members of the family with cyanide of potassium, and then the elder members committed suicide. The tragedy was due to financial worries June 17. The Hungarian House" of Magnates adopted the Army Bill by 174 votes to 23. Count Tisza ventured in the streets of Budapest and was badly mobbed. The police rescued him. BUDAPEST, June 13. As a result of the murder of M. Hervoic at Agram by a Bosnian student named Judics several of Judics's accomplices have been arrested. One of them, named Pisacsics, has confessed that he was implicated in a plot against a number of prominent politicians. ST. PETERSBURG, June 12. Fifty-nine farm labourers who were sleeping in a barn at Tambov were burned to death. June 14. The details of the inquiry into the alleged ritual murder at Kieff show that the boy was not a victim of any ritual order, but was killed by a gang of thieves to which he belonged because he was suspected of being an informer. June 15. Herr Hinkel, a German merchant in Moscow, has bequeathed his business, with a fortune of £500,000, to his employees. LODZ June 14. Five robbers stopped a tramcar and shot and killed the motorman and two Jewish merchants, and wounded two men and two women. They then stole the victims' money, abounting to 10C0 roubles (about £150), and escaped. Mounted police and gendarmes with dogs are pursuing them. CONSTANTINOPLE, June 17. Sixty thousand-troops have been drafted to the Smyrna district. WASHINGTON, June 11. The Government is establishing a regular system of patrol by revenue cutters on the California n coast to prevent Chinese from surreptitiously landing. Fifty wlio recently landed were captured. Advices have been received that the Russians have moved three squadrons of Cossacks and two companies of infantry into Kashgar City. A number of convicts revolted in the San Quentin prison and attempted to eet fire to the prison jute mill. In the course of a fierce conflict with the warders one man was killed. June 14. Charges of intrigue against Majorgeneral Wood were made during a debate on the Army Appropriation Bill, and a measure deposing hirn ha.s been passed by both Houses. The bill now awaits President Taft's signature. A Senate Committee has favourably reported on a bill authorising the opening and c>]>eration of the Panama Canal. It has retained the provision made by the House of Representatives exempting coastwise vessels from tolls. NEW YORK. June 11. A mob of striking-waiters tried to break up a banquet to some visiting German officers at the hotel Waldorf Astoria. The police charged the mob, and violent disorders wore the result. The police arrested scores of men. •Tune 16. The Colorado River is overflowing in all directions. Many villages are inundated and homes abandoned. Rescue boats have been sent. ROCHESTER (New Fork), June 10. While Dr P. L. Alden was rushing to see a boy who is suffering from concussion of the, brain, his automobile was wrecked. An aviator, seeing the doctor's plight,

T conveyed him by aeroplane to the boy's bedside. The bov is recovering. PERTHAMBOY (New Jersey), June 14. Serious riots followed on a strike, and there were several clashes with the police. One man was fatally shot and others were wounded. There were numerous arrests. j EDMONTON (Alberta), June 11. j A general conference of the Presbyterian Church of Canada decided in favour of the cause of organic union with the Methodists and CongYegationalists. I The resolution was carried unanimously. OTTAWA, June 14. Mormon activity is increasing here, j A clergyman interfered when the MorI mons sought to induce some girl immi- ' grants at Montreal to join them. The clergyman called the police, and the Mormons were hustled from the landing stage. As the result of the wreck of a train at Moose Jaw two engineers, two firemen, and two brakesmen were killed, while a ' dozen passengers were injured. The cars fell into a gulch. The proposal to return to America the historic gun that was captured at Bunkers j Hill in the War of Independence has aroused fierce opposition. 1 The proposal is made in conjunction with the proposed 100 years of peace celebrations. June 15. It -is predicted that this year's spring wheat crops will be the greatest in the history of Canada. It is estimated that i the vield will be-250,000,000 bushels. 1 CAPETOWN, June 12. The steamer Canada Cape, which was beached a few days ago as a result of a serious fire on board, has been refloated. , TOKIO, Jnue 14. Prince Katsura, in an interview, denied that the Anglo-Japanese alliance had weakened. He said the alliance was more important than ever. It was the pivot of Japan's foreign policy and the best guarantee of peace in Europe. m