BRITISH & FOREIGN.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XL, Issue 13172, 4 September 1913, Page 3

BRITISH & FOREIGN.

{Press Assn.— By Telegraph— Cbnyrlght.) LONDON, September^ 3> Lord - Beauchamp, replying* Ap.' ih& * London Building Industries' refused to dismiss' three men for refus; ing to strike. ' '1 >.r k :-

The Coroner has committed for Wiai Robertson, Avho is accused of murdering his children. i

.(Received Sept. 4, 9 a.fn.) ■",, Cremmerkothen, avlio attempted :.•■■',' t# blackmail Lord Rothschild, has b_eh sentenced to fifteen months' imprison-, ment.

.....:• '■-.<* ' i - l - - The prosecution of the Premier's assailants at Lossiemouth golf, links lias been abandoned. > -

Aboyeur, the winner of the Detbyi has been sold for thirteen thousand guineas, to be shipped to Russia. '■■) The estate of Miss Davison (the suffragette who was fatally injurfed on' the Derby course) has been, sworn at £.$6, which she bequeathed, m her own hand-j Avri ting/ to her mother. « DURBAN, September 3: ' The Natal branch of the Navy Leag-ie presented the warship Australia with a silver rose bowl as a reminder o£ (he great appreciation of the patriotic instincts of Australian kinsfolk.

CONSUMPTION I.N CONVENE: (London Times-Sydney Sun Special Cables) : ROME, Septemter 3., . The Pope has directed tliat the Strictest measures be undertaken to fight the spread of consumption m convents and seminaries, and has established sanatorium .treatment- for patients, and recommends the- bishops and congregatio'ia to build ' Sanatoria..

FROZEN BEEF TRADE. ■■ ; •"! LONDON, SepteraJ>|fi^.\ The annual- report: of the "-Medical Officer of the Port of London states that frozep beef from Australia and New Zealand has arrived during the year m good condition, the examination m Australia being more thoroughly and : effectually carried out than m New Zealatfd. TRADE UNIONISM.,. X '■

The primes, iii a special article i^isting ou the failure of trades unionism, says that betAveen 1902 and 1906 eleven million Avorking days were lost through strikes m Britain and m 1912 forty million working days were lost, while, the Avorking conditions have become' harder and harder, the workers .not only beitig speeded up by their employers, but ajso socially ,'screAved doAA'n- by the riew governing' classes. With trades unionism pure and simple the." workers went ahead, the paper .saysj hut with political trades unionism they are - going back - Avard. • ' :

FALLING BIRTHRATE. (London Times-Sydney Sun Special Cables) (Received Sept. 4. 8.30 a.m.) LONDON, September 3. A Blue Book shoAA-s that the births m the United Kingdom for the first quarter of the present year. Avere considerably loAver than- the average for the previous ten years.

THE MONROE DOCTRINE. The Times' Washington correspondent points out that Mr Bryan's Nicaragua*!;' plan marks the conversion of democrats to the acceptance of the Monroe doctrine, v Avhich boils doAVrt into a' declaration of intention to try to tilrn the Caribbean into an American sea, ahd affirmation of the right to make the Caribbean- republics' American "subjects Avhenever the peace of the neighborhood | demands it.