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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXVII, Issue 12411, 22 March 1911, Page 5

CABLE NEWS.

(Australian Press Specials.) LONDON, March 14. Tho Archbishop of Canterbury and the Bishop of London have throAvn their influence into a, movement for curtailing Mormon activities m England. The Daily Mail asserts that the Home Office Avill shortly order the missionaries of this sect to leave the kingdom. Gotch has at last signed up Avith Knoch, the German champion Avrestler, nothing being barred but the strangle hold. Knoch at first objected to the toe jjiold, but Gotch- refused to sign unles&f.everytbing rough and painful was permitted. . . „ A. measure requiring only President Taft's signature authorises the United States Treasury to issue certificates against the bullion , m the vaults. There will be no more gofd coinage for three years, and it is estimated that £60,000 will be saved while the mint lies idle. Information has been received at the Board "of Foreign- Missions, Boßton, U.S.A., that there " is no plague m Peking or Manchuria, and that conditions are improving elsewhere. Lord Strathcona .has been re-appoint-ed, president of -the International Commercial Association. The Admiralty has allowed Mr Oliver, tho jiaval storekeeper at Devonport, to proceed to Canada for six months to Organise the supply-department of the Dominion Navy. — * Messrs Mars and Baldwin, two United States aviators,- have made three suc r cessful flights at Osaka, Japan, before 400,000 spectators. The grandson of the Mikado was present, and complimented the airmen on their prowess. It. is officially announced that tho Kaiser will visit the Austrian Emperor m Vienna on March 24, on his way to . A strong movement is afoot here to restore the ex-King Manuel to the throne of Portugal. It is said that the supporters of the plan hope to succeed by peaceful measures, but if these fail force will bo resorted to. '„,-,_' King George has conferred tho Order of the Garter on the nonagenarian Prince Regent of Bavaria. . . _ IA, riiimber of miners have been buried alive as the result of a cave-in at a mine m Virginia, Minnesota. It is feared that the deaths will number 16. Already two dead bodies have been recovered from- the wreckage. The authorities at Hongkong have prohibited Mars from ™*k™S flights, on Account of the fact that he would be able to view the fortifications from his aeroplane. . A. new Irish club, with: the aim of ; promoting, the union of the four Irish provinces, i* bein 8 inaugurated, under the united duspices of the Irish AssociaUop the Ulster Association,, the Gallic Leigue, -and the Irish Literary, Society. ThXclu.b' will; be non-partisan and nonsectarian. _..-.,« mr , 41 • PARIS< March 14. A considerable time ago the miners at Morcfeaux demanded increases >of wages, bht the Bbuizy Company, replied that this was impossible, and offered the men an annual bonus equivalent to half of aiy increase 'm the dividend. To-mor-roAv' tfhe. men will divide, according to merit, £nB,OOO , which is their share for the year under the new system. NEW YORK, March 14. Sir Thos. Shaughnessy, . president of the Canadian-Pacific Railway, says that the company contemplates spending £7,000,000 during the current. year on improvements. The C.P.R. will also built two 10,000-tonners as additions to the Pacific fleet, even though Canadian feeling be against reciprocity. ■' • . RIO DE JANEIRO, March 14. There has been »,*nti-clerical , rioting at San Paulo, following .' the disappearance of a young £I*4- from the parish school:" The clerics:, failed to produce her at-the demand of the mob, and fighting"resulted.. The military police charged the attackers, arrested 160, and killed and wounded several others. ROME,; March 14. t The' first day's proceedings . of the trial of the Camorrists at Viterbo Avere of an oxdMng. nature. , Bloodshed, was .narrow-ly-avejfted'at this-£ejpeiiliig's session. A tigftt broke out anieng- the prisoners, who were -confined m aHfit| steel cage close to tha. jury, box, -a«fb a . force of carabineerr; ha<l to heSßwßoned' around the cage"lo prevent a tragic ending to the fracas. It is thought that the fight started at a signal - from confederates m the body of the court, and at the first .sign- of trouble-«*rt!ordon,of soldiers hid the prisoners- from! the . spectators.