BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS.

West Coast Times, 4 May 1914, Page 4

BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS.

[rsn rai-ss association.— cot’vuioht.] BLAZE IN* BELFAST. LONDON, ;i .-The iic ‘ l “’ h ' t Opera House and Urn Hippodrome adp doing are ahlaxe, and it is feared that they will ho destroyed, ACSTBIAX ARMY ESTIMATE'S. VIENNA, May 2.—The Army Estimales are tUiCOMO!) above those, ol did iu order to carry out measures to wlneli Parliament has'a I ready agreed. SAFETY- AT KEA. BERLIN, Mav 2.—The Reichstag passed tin- Safely fd Era -Hill through all ils LONDON. -May 2.—Mr. Lloyd George will find a large portion of the additional revenue required ol the supertax downwards by the gradual ion of the* ii:(oii!c tax. SANATOTUr.M BENEFITS. LONDON, May 2. During the eighteen months ending January, l-l,lf)d insured persons or ll.eii depemlenfs in the Foiled Kingdom, out of r)2,1190 applicants, reeeived sanatorium bein' tit s costing TSdb,-.-,on BISHOP OF BRISTOL. LONDON, .May 2.—The Lev. Niekson, of Yarrow, has succeeded the Bishop of Bristol, who resigned. GERMAN LEGISLATION. BERLIN, A hay I.—The Reichstag read for the first time a hill embodying an international agreement regarding the safely of the .shins at sea, also the Mail Subsidy Bill, and the latter showing c. decrease Irani (i,000,900 marks to 1,200,000, mainly due to the Hamhurg-Amerika and Nerd Deulscher Lloyd continuing the Far-Kast--rii service without .subsidy, and the abandonment of tin' Nord Dentscher Australian service. RECORD AIRSHIP. BERLIN. May I.—The Schiiltehuiz airship, the largest yet constructed for the arniv, (ailed by half an hour to fulfil the. War Office conditions. It [ was compelled to land through losing gas, and struck the ground heavily and was partially wrecked. SENT TO GAOL. NEW YORK, May L—FpUm Sinclair and several women relused to pay small fines and were sent to gaol lor three davs. Sinclair declared that he was on the verge of a physical breakdown, but he would rather go to gaol and declare a hunger strike than pay bis fine. T R AITOH S SENT EX FED. BERLIN, May I.—A German balloonist named Berliner and two companions, who landed at Berm on February 10th, have been sentenced to six months' solitary, eoidinenient for obtaining rdam-. of torpedo construction and descriptions of forts.. There is much indignation in Germany, where it. is I,,'lieved that the flight over the frontier was accidental.

fi.KRMAX AVAR TAX, lil'.Rl.lN, May I.—The Imperial hxrlu ijnor is honotitlii.o enormously by tho Finaiu-.* Secretary's clover ru«o l»v )U‘.>)riisin o- Hot to lake i.ldirial proceedhigs against those who had not tied tired their, full income in previous years if they now do so as a patriotic duty. There is every prospect that the war levy will far exceed C00.00f1.000. ■ STKAMKH IX TROCHLK. TDK 10, May I.— The mad steamer SiW-ra. going to Manila, repeated wi.v----h ss rails for help when off the shore at Formosa with 70 passenger.';, dim messages were gelling more indistinct. Several steamers are hurrying to her assistance. MANILA, Alar 2.-The Siberia has arrived living distress signals. idho exelamed that she hared another vessel was involved.