NEWS BY CABLE.

Otago Witness, Issue 3720, 30 June 1925, Page 45

NEWS BY CABLE.

EARL OF ROSEBERRY. LONDON, June 25. King George and Queen Mary visited the Earl of Roseebrry. PARIS POSViEsFs STRIKE ENDED. PARIS, June 26. The striking postal employees have resumed work. FUNDING OF WAR DEBTS. WASHINGTON, June 21. France and Czecho-Slovakia have intimated their willingness to open debt-fund-ing negotiations. GORDON-BENNETT CUP. BRUSSELS, June 21. M. Yeenstra has been declared winner of the Gordon-Bennet Cup, and De Muyter second. AUSTRALIAN WHEAT FCOL. MELBOURNE, June 25. In the House of Representatives Mr J. M'Neill’s amendment was defeated by 32 votes to 21. MINISTERIAL APPOINTMENT. SYDNEY, June 22. In view of his appointment to the Legislative Council, Mr A. C. Willis has resigned the secretaryship of the Coal Miners’ Federation. HOURS OF PARLIAMENT. SYDNEY, June 23. Cabinet has decided to recommend to a caucus for ratification the proposal that Parliament should sit only from 10 in the morning till 6 in the evening. W AIM ATE ASHORE, LONDON, June 23. The steamer Waimate, which was sold a month ago to Italian buyers, went ashore near Cape St. Vincent and is a total loss. The crew was saved. DISTINGUISHED SERVICES. LONDON, June 24. Mr Baldwin, Mr Churchill, and Earl Jellieoe have each been granted the degree of Honorary Doctor of Civil Laws by Oxford University. Earl Jellicoe’s degree is in recognition of his war services. LEGISLATIVE VACANCY FILLED. SYDNEY, June 23. Mr P. J. Minahan (Labour) a former member and runner-up at the last election, automatically fills the seat in the Sydney electorate rendered vacant by,.the death of Mr El. J. Birt. SIEVIER BANKRUPTCY. LONDON, June 23. The Bankruptcy Court suspended for four years the discharge of Robert Sievier. The Official Receiver reported that Sievier was guilty of misconduct in failing to disclose an adverse judgment for £33,908. POPULATION OF AUSTRALIA. SYDNEY, June 27. The Commonwealth Statistician estimates that the population of the Commonwealth at the end of March last was 6,904,592, being an increase of 127,230 for the year. NEW SOUTH WALES PARLIAMENT. SYDNEY, June 24. Parliament was opened by Commission. After membei’9 had been sworn in Mr J. Dooley was elected Speaker without opposition. June 26. Cabinet lias prorogued Parliament until July 21. THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL DEFRAUDED. LONDON, June 23. Duncan Macmillan, overseer on Sir Charles Fergusson’s estate at Kilkerran, •was sentenced to one year’s imprisonment sale of timber from the estate, for embezzling £1278, the proceeds of the JEWISH UNIVERSITY. LONDON, June 21. At a Zionist reception at Brighton Mr Bernhard Baron, who is known as “the Brighton millionaire,” and who has contributed £250,000 to charity since last October, presented a cheque for £IO,OOO for the Jewish University at Jerusalem. INCREASE IN BASIC WAGE FORESHADOWED. SYDNEY, June 24. The Daily Telegraph states that there Is reason to believe that, following its consideration of the matter next month, the Board of Trade will raise the basic wage from 82s to 85s. RAILWAY AFFAIRS. LONDON, June 25. The International Railway Congress, which is sitting in London, passed a resolution by 90 votes to 35 declaring that a Tigid oight-hour-day is impracticable, but stating that each case should be examiend on its merits. AMERICAN TRADE BUREAU. SYDNEY, June 24. With a view to better serving the American exporters in the Australian and New Zealand area, the Bureau of F’oreign and Domestic Commerce of the United States intends to open an office in Sydney on July 1. The Amercain Trade Commissioner (Mr Babbitt) will be in charge. CONSCRIPTION. OTTAWA, June 26. A resolution urging the conscription of the nation’s property and man power similar to that recently presented to Congress Iw the American Legion was passed by the Great War Veterans' Association at

a convention here following a discussion on world peace. WIRELESS TELEPHONY. LONDON, June 28. The feature of the Hendon pageant was the testing by King George of the wonders of wireless telephony. H/s ordered the squadron to alter its course 15 points outward. The message was broadcast and so was heard in all the enclosures, lne pilots turned instantly. COMMERCIAL TRAVELLERS. NEW YORK, June 23. A message from Columbus, Ohio, states that at the annual convention of the International Secretary and Treasurers Association and the United Commercial Travellers’ Association a proposal to bring doubt closer affiliation with organisations in Australia and New Zealand was endorsed. NOT WANTED BACK. SYDNEY, June 22. At the Darlinghurst sessions Tereuce O'Connor, aged 26, was sentenced to three years’ imprisonment on a charge of theft. Tlie police stated that O’Connor was an escapee from the Wellington gaol, but although the New Zealand authorities had decided on his deportation they were not prepared to pay for his extradition. DEPORTATION OF INDUSTRIAL DISTURBERS. MELBOURNE, June 26. A Bill introduced in the F'ederal Parliament provides for the deportation of persons involved seriously in industrial disturbances or concerned in offences to the prejudice of the public. It also provides for the restriction of alien immigration when this is considered necessary. MANIAC WITH SHOTGUN. MELBOURNE, June 22. A half-caste aboriginal named William Bryant, who was working on a farm owned by Mrs Drew, at Heyfield, ran amok with a shotgun. He shot Mrs Drew and her adopted daughter and then committed suicide with the same weapon. The girl was only slightly injured, but Mrs Drew's condition is serious. LINK WITH KELLY GANG. PERTH, June 23. The death is announced of Dr Gibney, former Roman Catholic Bishop of Perth, who since 1910 has been living in retirement. His death removes an interesting link with the Kelly gang of bushrangers. Father Gibney, as he then was, at great personal risk, entered the burning building when the gang was surrounded at Glenrowan, and administered the rites to the dead and wounded bushrangers. BOY EMIGRANTS. s LONDON, June 24. Mr Richard Linton has arrived from Canada, and is commencing immediately to arrange for the selection of the first quota of 250 British boys to proceed to Australia imder the auspices of the Big Brother movement. He states that he has explained the scheme to public men, churchmen, and representatives of institutions in Canada and New Zealand, and all were favourably impressed. He is hopeful to develop an Einpire-wide movement. WOMEN IN THE WAR. LONDON, June 25. The Duchess of York unveiled the famous medieval Five Sisters window in York Minster, which has been restored as a national .memorial to the 1465 women of the Empire who died during the war. Many subscriptions were received from Australia and New Zealand. IDEALS OF FASCISM. ROME, June 23. Signor Mussolini, in a speech at the National Fascist Congress, defended the Bill excluding non-Fascists from the Civil Service, and declared a ruthless determination that discipline and the concentration of all the power' in Fascist hands should be the order of the day. Amid frenzied cheers Signor Mussolini declared that he was ready to defend, with his life blood, the banner of the Fascist revolution. BUBONIC PLAGUE, BRISBANE, June 25. Queensland is declared by the Federal authorties to be a place infected. It is not yet determined whether the suspected case is plague. SYDNEY, June 25. In view of the suspected case of bubonic plague in Queensland, a conference of neaJth authorities and public bodies decided iinmediatelv to enforce precautionary measures, including a comprehensive rat destruction campaign, to protect the city from a possible invasion by the dreaded scourge. NAURU ISLAND. GENEVA, June 26. The Nauru report for 1924, which the Mandates Commission hits examined, says the only lands belonging to the State are tho Government Station and the area required for a wireless station, totalling approximately 100 ocros. The German Government acquired this area by purchase from the native owners and It transferred it to mandatory power under the Peace Treaty. It has been since then dealt with as the property of the administration. , PRIEST FATALLY ‘STABBED. LONDON, June 26. The Daily Exprese’s Rome correspondent reports that an old man, who had been in gaol because he lived by extorting

money from relatives, when released sought out a cousin who was a nun. Cshe refused to give him money, and he imagined that Canon Capozza was respon sible for the refusal. Tne old man went to the church, found Canon Capozza praying at the altar, and fatally stabbed him with a dagger. He also wounded a woman who tried to prevent the murder. DEATH OF CENTENARIAN. GENEVA, June 26. Jacob Gunziger, a watchmaker, who celebrated his hundredth birthday a week ago, refused to leave his bed, declaring that he had a long journey before him, and that he wanted a long rest before starting. He died yesterday. Gunziger suffered from consumption since his youth, and lost one lung at tho ago of 26, when the doctors gave him only a year to live. Gunziger declared that the doctors would precede him to the cemetery. He studied the treatment of his malady and took the greatest care of his health. He followed his trade till a few years ago. MASTER} OF THE AIR LONDON, June 27. A 'hundred thousand people witnessed the air pageant at Hendon in the pres ence of their Majesties. Several new types of machines, widely varying m horse-power, demonstrated their uses as fast scouts and troop carriers. Huge bombers and aerial ambulances performed innumerable manoeuvres, including looping and spiral nose diving to within a few feet of the ground. The use of wireless between the machines in the air* demonstrated how aerial drill could be carried out by four squadrons of 36 machines. MIGRANTS TO AUSTRALIA. LONDON, June 25. The Rev. Mr Mullins (secretary of tho Colonial and Continental Church Society) publishes in the Morning Post a letter from a New South Wales clergyman warning young immigrants not to proceed to Australia unless they are accredited, and quoting instances of destitution within his personal experience. Sir Joseph Cook, in replying, endorses the Sydney clergyman’s proposition that the migrants should not proceed unless they are accredited. Sir Joseph Cook adds: “Over 6000 boys have gone to Australia during the last five years under State-aided schemes. The number of failures is negligible, while hundreds are already independent farmers.” TRAGEDY AT PFRTII . PERTH, June 27. Two young women, Stella Moore and Doyle, were sleeping in a bungalow in a hotel at Rockingham. Doyle left the room for a few minutes, and returning found Moore with a bullet wound in her face and a man lying dead alongside the bed with a bullet through his head. Moore is not in a serious condition. It is stated that the dead man was her husband. He crept bootless into the room and shot her and then himself. Some weeks ago Moore, a resident of Geraldton, informed the police that his wife was missing. He traced her to Rockingham. Jealousy is supposed to be the cause of the tragedy. PROHIBITION LAWS. OTTAWA, June 24. The Government of British Columbia has passed legislation eliminating export liquor houses, and restricting the importation of liquor into the province to the Government, which will maintain the liquor stores. This legislation is intended to stop the practice which lias been operating for three years under which millions of dollars’ worth of Scotch whisky, destined for San Francisco, has been shipped to Vancouver from Glasgow, and thence reshipped by alleged export houses on board bootlegging steamers, which take it to its destination. BRITISH LABOUR SNUBBED. LONDON, June 22. The Sofia correspondent of The Times says: “Mind your own business'’ is Bulgaria’s reply to tho British Labour Party’s resolution condemning the severity of the recent sentences, and expressing the hope that civil law will soon be restored. It is emphasised that Bulgaria is an independent country, and does not expect foreigners, whoever they are, to interfere in her internal affairs, which she will herself remedy. The Government press expressed regret that the British Labourites had been misled regarding the situation in Bulgaria, as the country is struggling for stable conditions, just as any country would in similar circumstances. STATE GOVERNORSHIPS. MELBOURNE, June 24. The Victorian Government has decided not to support the proposal of the Premiers of other States that a request be made to the British Cabinet that only Australian citizens should be appointed as State Governors in the future. There is much press criticism and correspondence of a strong adverse character regarding the Labour Premier’s advocacy of the appointment of native-born Australians as State Governors. Protests are made on the ground of a weakening of Imperial ties as well as more sinister sim gestions. Demands are made that the people should be consulted before such a radical change in made and the holding of protest meetings is advocated. TRAGEDY OF THE) ARCTIC. NEW YORK, June 24. Mr H. A. Snow, *a big game hunter and explorer, who has just returned from two years’ photographing and exploration work in the Arctic reunions, announced the discovery on Herald Island of the remains of the missing members of Dr Stefansson’s North Polar expedition of 1914. The discovery clears up the mystery concerning the fate of five members of the crew—one of the two parties into which the expedition was divided when the party

left the sinking ship Karluk and started back to civilisation. The party led by Dr Stefansson arrived safely, but the other, led by the ship's doctor, was never again heard from. The bodies were 65 miles from where the Karluk was lost. FRAUD CHARGE FAILS. OTTAWA, June 24. After a long trial at Winnipeg, Joseph Myers, a former New Zealander, who was arrested some months ago in F'nglaud, was acquitted on a charge of fraud bysalting the Bingo mine. Myers came before a magistrate on March 4 for the hearing of the fraud charge on which he was brought back from England. The chief witness was Tom Dawson, a plumber, who testified that he was engaged on several occasions by Myers to file down gold bars for the purpose of selling the Bingo gold mine. Counsel for Myers claimed that “the dice were loaded” against his client, because letters and private files were in the Crown’s possession, and the defence was unable to obtain access to them. WOMEN’S WORLD CONVENTION. LONDON, June 21. Over 1000 delegates, representing 60 countries, attended the opening of the World Women’s Christian Temperance Convention in Edinburgh. The conference opened with a devotional session, at which delegates from South Africa, Australia, Denmark, Canada, India, and China gave short addresses. June 23. The World Women’s Christian Temperance Convention at Edinburgh approved of a memorial to women throughout the world declaring that alcohol is a poison, and urging them to unite in voluntary abstinence from alcohol, and to make ail well-considered efforts to limit or to prohibit the manufacture and sale of alcohol; and also to unite in efforts to protect the home, promote purity, and end war. COLONIAL MUTTON. LONDON, June 26. At an inquest at Hammersmith on the body of a dairyman, who died from food poisoning attributed to a meal of imported mutton, evidence was given that the analysis of the stomach revealed bacillus aertryck, which exists chiefly in mutton and sometimes in fish. A pathologist (Mr Bronte) expressed the opinion that the carcase became infected after slaughter either from the air, the water, the soil, or a workman’s hands. The bacillus would not grow while the carcase was frozen, but generation was probably aggravated by the heat wave. The coroner (Dr Oswald) said that some people would perhaps be prejudiced against colonial mutton, but lie considered that such mutton was safe, because the sheep lived in fine pastures in countries not over-populated. CONTROL OF UNIONS. MELBOURNE, June 27. A case having an important bearing on the question of whether or not unions are entitled to inflict penalties on t-heir members for alleged disobedience of rules is proceeding. F. Phillips is seeking to recover £IOOO damages from the Workers’ Federation of Australia and the Wharf Labourers' Union, of which he is a member, on the ground that the two bodies mentioned wrongfully refused to recognise him as a member, whereby he lost his employment. Fhillips’s case is that in February of last year lie was helping to unload sugar from a steamer. The foreman called him down the hatch to fill up the slings. He obeyed the order. I’he union’s vigilance officer thereupon came along, and called down the hold : “Stop that pie; you are putting too much on the slings. Phillips was subsequently fined 10s by the union for an alleged breach of the rules, lie denied liability, and was consequently set aside as unfinancial, and be could get no work except small jobs, and was unable to join any other union without a financial clearance. AUSTRALIAN BUTTER. SYDNEY, June 24. During a conference of dairy factory managers it was estimated that by June 30 New South Wales would have produced 115,000,0001 b of butter, with an additional 5,000,0001 b made on farms and sold as dairy butter. This is a record production. The previous best was 100,000,0001 b in 1921-22. During the 11 months ended May 31 last 842,765 boxes of butter weve graded for export. The previous best was 790,000 boxes in 1921-22. Of the boxes graded this year 42.20 per cent, was of choicest quality, 28.5 first grade, and £5.21 second grade. The president, in his address, stress?! the importance of a national brand, and pointed out the singular success achieved by Australian butter since the Kangaroo brand had fitrst been placed on the Home markets. For the first "time in history Australian butter had led the product of New Zealand in point of price, wh?ch meant quality. LONG-NURSED REVENGE. THE HAGUE, June 24 A remarkable story is associated with the arrest of Gerrit Varenhorst, who is the son of wealthy parents, or» a charge of murdering a compatriot named Delewd and his wife. Varenhorst while studying in London became involved in a smart circle, and then drifted into the hotel business. He was suspected of participation in the white slave traffic and finally deported. He returned in 1916 and was again deported. He retumed in 1917, and searching for the Delewds, whom lie ucoused of taking the proceeds of his hotel, he attempted to asphyxiate the pair by inserting a gas pipe in their bedroom. For this he was sentenced to 10 years’ imprisonment. He served seven years, and then renewed his search for the Delew ds, visiting America and Fkigland, and finally Holland, where he located them. He broke

into their house, and, it is alleged, he niiL dered them. He did not attempt to esc ape. WOMAN STABBED TO DEATH. ADELAIDE, June 25. A ghastly tragedy occurred at Gawler, whed James Robert Keats, 14 years of age, suddenly attacked with a knife Mrs F. Martin, with whom he was boarding. He killed her, and smashed an air rifle over the head of her daughter, aged nine, who entered the loom. He then shot himself through the heart with a second rifle. The unexpectedness of the attack and its apparent lack of motive have baffled the police. So far as can be ascertained the retentions between Keats and the Martins were of a most amicable nature. It appears that Keats, in company with Merle Martin, left school to attend a football practice. On the way he told his companion that he had left at school a number of books which he would require for his home lessons that evening. Accordingly he turned back, apparently to revisit the school. Instead of doing so he went home, and not long afterwards Patty Martin was seen running along the railway line screaming and bleeding about the head. Mrs Martin was found to have received 11 wounds on the left side, apparently inflicted by a sheath knife, winch wai found in the room. The girl, so far, has been unable to give any account of the occurrence.