THE TIMES-SYDNEY SUN SPECIAL CABLES.

Otago Witness, Issue 3100, 13 August 1913, Page 57

THE TIMES-SYDNEY SUN SPECIAL CABLES.

LONDON, August 4. The Durham Conciliation Board has raised miners’ "wages per cent.

The invention of a lifeguard for motor buses, which consists of steel wire, was eubrnitted to trials by the inventor, who wa« three times knocked down by vehicles proceeding at a fast pace, but escaped with slight abrasions. He claims that the invention is successful.

In the course of his address at the Dental Conference, Cambridge,' the President declared that the profession, in attacking the scourge of dental disease at its inception, was removing the most prolific scourge of bodily degeneration. In a letter to The Times Lord Malmesbury says that the House of Lords is dead or dying, through the powerful anaesthetic administered in the form of the Parliament Act. The might of the nation .is above a constitution which has been the model and ideal of the civilised people of the world, but is being rotted by an institution which has been the wonder and envy of rising democracies for ages. No healthy body politic is safe from the knife of the ruthless" Socialist surgeon.

Four hundred irate Welshmen publicly threatened to shoot some suffragettes who were disturbing an Eistcdfodd at Abergavenny.

Three inmates of a Sussex lunatic asylum gained a prize of £IOO in a Lon don newspaper competition.

August 5-

Speaking at Cardiff. Sir A. Thomas (the millionaire coal owner) said he was not afraid of oil fuel supplanting coal in this or the next generation.

The Labourites state that a determined attempt is afoot to establish a police trade union within the metropolitan area. The authorities are certain to disapprove of any such organisation.

At the ceremony awarding the I)unmow Flitch two married couples submitted to an amusing cross-examination for three hours. Both couples received flitches of bacon, and were carried through the grounds in triumph. The judge said that 25 years of not giving nor taking offence was a proud record. A domestic, who was employed at a doctor’s house, has been sentenced to six weeks’ imprisonment for wholesale thieving. She possessed 159 pawn tickets.

At the Dental Conference Dr Wallis, of the King’s College Hospi al, said ihe poor child had a great advantage. By feeding on its mother’s breasts it grew up to school age v ith perfect dentition, whereas the rich parents destroyed their children's teeth by feeding them on sweets and cakes. August 6.

A committee of barristers, under the presidency of Lord Robert Cecil, has been formed to assist the movement for opening the legal profession to women. Tire Times, in a leader discussing Lord Sclborne’e statement, says it is strongly contended that the Admiralty standard of 60 per cent, over the next greatest Power is now inadequate, and should be extended to 100 per cent As 1916 is the earliest date when the present programme can have effect it would seem that 13 ships required to be laid down in 1913, and that was eight more than Mr Churchill was giving them. The Unionists should insist on three extra ships being laid down by next spring. August 7. At the Medical Congress the physiological section unanimously resolved that experiments on living animals had proved of the utmost service to mankind in the past, and that it was indispensable'to the future progress and interests of man and animals that facilities should be given to competent persons to perform experiments under adequate supervision. At the Medical Congress Dr Harvey Cushing, of Harvard University, read a piper on surgery. He said that, experimental therapeutics would in future doubtless give an ideal anaesthetic in the form of a drug, possibly allied to chloretone or scopalomin, a single injection of which would induce prolonged and insensitive sleep perchance of sufficient duration to allow primary wound-healing to occur. August 8. The cruiser Philomel is being recommissioned at Hongkong and will proceed to New Zealand. The colliery proprietors have accepted the responsibility for the relief of 63 dependents of the Cadder miners. August 10. A burglar, against whom were five previous convictions, was bound over for the sake of his wife and three children. The Judge said: “If the children are unable to reform you, nothing on earth can.” Dr Newman, the Chief Medical Officer for the Board of Education, stales that 50 per cent, of the school children have defective teeth, 10 per cent, defective vision, 10 per cent, are unclean. 5 per cent, are deaf, 3 per cent, have ear diseases, 5 per cent, adenoids, 1 per cent, ringworm, 2 per cent, (totalling 120,000) tuberculosis, and 10 per cent, are malnourished. PARIS, August 4. In the Senate Baron Constant, in opposing the Army Bill, condemned the German military policy. ‘‘ In view of the domestic and foreign dangers wherewith Germany is confronted it is unlikely.” he said, “that she will resort t. aggression ; therefore there is no need fur franc- to follow Germany in the mallei of bloated armaments.”

The French Olympic Games Committee is asking the Government for a grant of £20,000 for training a team. The Sporting Association is spending £4OOO annually for three years in discovering and training Olympians. M. Douin, the long-distance champion, has gone to the United States to study the methods there. August 5. The Minister of Public Works has announced that he is spending £10,000,000 during the next 12 years on tarring 6000 miles of roads, for the purpose of attracting motor tourists. He is also aiming at the improving of hotels. August 7. Discussing the Army Bill in the Senate, M. Ciemenceau (ex-Premier) emphasised the necessity of constant preparedness. Since 1870 France, without in any way provoking it, had been five times on the verge of conflict with Germany. August 8. M. Berthet cycled 26j miles in an hour —a world’s unpaced record. August 10. The War Minister was an interested spectator of the experiments of an Italian engineer to ignite explosives at long distances by means of infra-violet rays. The experiments were successful at a range of 15 miles. BERLIN, August 5. The International Miners’ Congress at Carlsbad resolved that there should be an interval of 16 hours between shifts, the maximum for shifts not to exceed six hours, and the weekly hours of labour in hot and wet places not to exceed six from bank to bank. The congress then adjourned for two years. ROME, August 7. A strike was organised by the syndicalists at Milan, and serious rioting followed. Tlie troops were called out, but they were stoned by the strikers, and they retaliated by using their swords. Fifty of the strikers were badly wounded, and 100 were arrested. Electricity for the trains was cut off for three days. The Duke D’Abruzzi was stoned while crossing the square. NEW YORK, August 4. Professor Starr, at the University of Chicago, declares that the present attempt of woman to press herself forward was harmful to the human race, and that it would continue until man had resolved to restore females to that position of inferiority to which they rightly belonged. The presence of women in occupations hitherto monopolised by man was unnatural, and indicated a racial decline. August 5. The estate of Mr Anthony Brady has been sworn at 70.000,000 dollars. His widow receives 1,060,000 dollars as an annuity, and cbari.ies receive 100,030 dollars. August 8. At Tampico a band of 17 Mexicans bound and robbed an American farmer and then outraged hie two daughters in the father’s presence. A band of Americans captured and executed the miscreants. TORONTO, August 7. It is reported that the land boom in the outlying districts has collapsed. Hundreds of estate agents are adopting other pursuits. Thousands of lots have been sold that will not he occupiable for a generation. and numerous western towns that have been divided up for building lots will now be utilised for farming. JOHANNESBURG, August 4. The South African Labour party’s manifesto states that the hopes that the Government would insure a permanent settlement had ended in bitter disappointment. Moreover. the door leading to future negotiations had been shut by the refusal of the mine owners to recognise ihe trades unions except under absurd and insulting conditions. Consequently the universal agreement offering only trifling and grudging concessions had not been accepted as the basis for permanency. The manifesto adds that the men will not he coerced into suhmision or provoked to violence. August 5. Mr Botha states that the crisis is past. The Government intends to carry out its undertaking towards the men. He declared empha ically that the Cabinet had no intention of going to the country. Permission would be given immediately for the resumption of recruiting in the native territories.