BRITISH & FOREIGN.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 12584, 14 October 1911, Page 5

BRITISH & FOREIGN.

(Press Assn.— By Telegraph.— Copyright.? (Received October 14, 8.5 a.m.) LONDON, October 13.

Cardinal Logue presided at a Requiem Mass, for the late Cardinal Moran at Dublin. Many prominent Catholics were present. The neAvspaper Labor Leader states that the industrial council will not remove the causes which generated the upheaval •by merely sitting as a safety valve. The Socialist press condemns the scheme. Barry, m. Sporting Life, repeats his challenge to R. Arnst, offering him £500 expense*. The Labor party is answering Mr Churchill's challenge by Mr Anderson, chairman of the party, opposing a Liberal at Keighley. Jack Johnson has declined to box Wells m Paris, Obituary : Harry Rickards, the wellknown Australian music hall proprietor,' from apoplexy. The newspaper Nation- strongly warns extremists m the Miners' Federation against precipitating a stoppage for a minimum wage. - BERLIN, October 13. At the Wolff e Metternich trial various acts of fraud of an ordinary type, were proved! He had a paternal allowance of thirty shillings monthly. He lived m magnificent style and* squandered money profusely:*. The trial causes the press to deplore the low morals of the idle rich. The prisoner threatens that when he: is released he will deal with the Crown Prosecutor.

Renee Thirion, a French teacher, has been sentenced to six • months''•imprisonment at Leipzig for • espionage. (Received October 14, 11 a.m.) . NEW ; YORK, October 13. At Seattle receivers have been appointed for. the Western Steel Corporation, whose capital is four millions sterling. Tlie petitioners were the Metropolitan Trust Company of _ New York.-.-. Wright Bros., tlie aviators, announce that they believe they have discovered the secret of the vulture's flight, andexpect that the present methods of flight will be revolutionised.

■ The Government has won a suit against the Bathtub Trust. A dissolution has been ordered unless appealed against. '..,...•'

LISBON, October 13. The despatch 6f troops' to frontier towns continues. The Government has decided to dispense with the services of the Carbonarios, a secret revolutionary society. The Premier eulogised their efforts during the revolutionary period.