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Waikato Argus, Volume XIV, Issue 1557, 15 May 1903, Page 3

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A SCIENTIST'S PROPHECY. London, May 13. Professor George Darwin, F.R.S.. Plumian Professor of Astronomy in the University of Cambridge, in the course of an address at the Royal Institution, said that the days were calculably lengthening, and that the time would conie when one day would be equal to two present days, the earth rotating only eight times monthly. THE KING. London, May 13. A thousand people attended the King's levee at Holyrcod Palace, and 600 ladies, who wore mourning dress, the Queen's Court. A picturesque bodyguard of archers, under the Duke of Buccleugb, was on duty at the palace. The King conferred a laionetcy upon Mr James Steel, Lo;d Provost of Edinburgh. ROOSEVELT AND THE PACIFIC. Berlin, May 13. German opinion regards President Roosevelt's Watsonville speech as an alarming development of Monroeism. The newspapers do not anticipate that America's preponderance in the Pacific will be soon realised, and suggest that President Roosevelt is trying to arouse enthusiasm as regards the navy, and is iudulging in Presidential electioneering. MOROCCO. London, May 13. Six tribes, numbering 12,000, are attacking Tetuan, a seaport town in Northern Morocco. The suburbs are ablaze, and the famous orange gardens have been destroyed. The British Consul and all British subjects have left the town, which is almost deserted. The Sultan is sending 3000 reinforcements. THE TRANSVAAL LOAN. London, May 13. The Bank of England has abandoned allotting small applicants in full. Owing to the enormous proportion of ' stags,' no successful applicant for the loan will be allotted less than one hundred. LABOUR TROUBLES. New York, May 13. The Clyde engineers are resuming work. The industrial struggle in New York has been intensified by the master builders agreeing to reject material from firms employing uuion dray drivers. An acute stage of an industrial crisis that has existed for some time past has just been received at Valparaiso. The men burned the quays as well as the offices of the South American Steamship Company, and worse results were feared. The stiikers, however, eventually came into direct conflict with the police, and ten were killed and 200 injured. THE DYNAMITE PLOT. New York, May 13. The police have traced the Umbria's infernal machine to a New York lodginghouse, and are now endeavouring to trace the maker, whose trunk contains shavings, tools and pieces of clockwork. A NARROW ESCAPE. Paris, May 13 The French submarine boat Algerian was manoeuvring at Cherbourg when the quartermaster and several of tho sailors were nearly asphixiated. MISCELLANEOUS. London, May 13. The Countess of Louyaz is suing King Leopold (her father) for 17 million francs as her share of the late Queen Marie's property. King Leopold offers her 600,000 francs. The House of Commons has agreed ' to an lid income tax, a reduction of 4d upon that of last year. The Mullah's followers laugh at the small wounds caused by the British solid bullets, and declare the Mullah causes them to heal quickly. The British Government has invited Mr Marconi to attend the International Telegraph Conference to be held in Loudon. Applicants for the Transvaal loan for amounts under £2OOO receive nothing, and those for £2OOO and upwards 2 6-10ths per cent. Mr W. T. Maud, artist and war correspondent for the London Graphic, after a narrow escape during the recent attack on Colonel Gough's column in Somaliland, died at Aden of syncope. "In the House of Commons Mr Chamberlain stated that all the recent interruptions on the Pacific cable had occurred on the land lino between Bamfield and Vancouver City.