World’s News in Brief.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume XV, Issue 230, 22 November 1912, Page 4

World’s News in Brief.

PER CABLE. Aprotracled sitting preparatory to the closing of the session disorganised the N.S.W. .Assembly. There was an extraordinary scene lasting nearly two hours, and resulting in the ejection of six .members. Interesting developements arc expected. Owing to the scarcity of whales in the vicinity of Jervis Bay, the Whaling Company is sending its vessels fro hi Sydney lo Cuttle Bay, in New Zealand, where the headquarters will be established. At a meeting in Sydney it was decided to raise a worthy memorial in connection with the Shakespeare tercentenary in Ibid. Much interest is being taken in the proposed visit of members of the British Parliament lo Australia in 1913, if possible including some - of the best-known men at .Westminster.

The warship Thunderer with Admiral Sir Percy Scott as fire director ,scored three times as many hits with the 13.5 guns as the Orion, which is not equipped with these guns

Ur. Parkin, of Oxford, criticised the American Rhodes scholars, and declared that it was a mystery how some of them ever got to Oxford. Merit alone was apparently not the deciding factor.

At the Prime Minister’s instance the Government’s original rescinding resolution was discharged, and Sir P. Banbury’s\ amendment to the Home Rule BilKwas quietly . negatived.

The police at . Czestochowa attempted to arrest Koslowski,-the notorious bandit, at .the famous Paulist Monastery of Jasnagor. Koslowski took refuge in a 'bastion and threw bombs. Finally the troops exploded the bastion, killing Koslowski. Bloodhounds tracked Benjamin Chant to a house in Wcstbourne (Sussex), where he. was arrested on a charge of incendiarism. Terrific floods and gales have been experienced in Jamaica.

At the International Horse Show at. New York the United States secured first place and England secured second

Austria, in 1915, will have seven Dreadnoughts in the Mediterranean, besides throe ships corresponding to Britain’s Lord Nelsons. A curious case of restoration of sight is reported from the Heidelberg Hospital for Incurables, in Germany. Twentv-five years ago William llton.

a butcher, was struck by lightning blinded, and also sull’crcd from partial paralysis and was deaf and dumb. Ten days ago he recovered his sight and was able to sit up in bed and read and converse with the help of a diagram. Friction has arisen between Greeks and Bulgarians at Salonika.

Albanians in America have cabled to the Pope asking him to intervene to secure Albanian autonomy.

Owing to the war stopping British consignment to the Levant ten tinplate mills as Swansea have closed down. The death roll on both sides at Monastir is estimated at twenty thousand. The Turks had 17,000 dead and wounded. Booty worth several million francs! has been taken by the victors.

During a fire at Los Angeles five hotel guests were killed in leaping from fourth storey widows to the pavement. Six persons were killed and six injured by a head-on collision by special trains in North Carolina. ..

The Joseph Craig loaded with kauri timber has been towed off with little apparent damage. Schrank, who shot Mr Roosevelt, has been declared insane, the doctors' decision being unanimous. A fashionable cafe at Leoserg, (Austria) was filled with officers and students. A fracas occurred, and several were badly hurt, and the principals are in a critical condition. Prisoners in Rochefort, prison (France) mutinied, shot the chief warder dead, decapitated his wife with a razor, mortally wounded a sailor and injured an officer.

The Government's fresh financial resolutions on the Home Rule Bill were carried by 317 to 207. Mongols invaded Kaila, within the Chili provinces. Chinese troops in trains are proceeding northwards. A lady has anonymously given Cardinial Bourne £50,000 for the erection of a Roman Catholic Hospital at Dollishill, Ireland.

Evidence at the Putumayo inquiry showed that some workmen who emigrated from Barbadoes were shot by Indians and Spaniards. In some cases the bodies were eaten.

Dr. Friedman, Berlin, has been inundated with world-wide inquiries regarding his tuberculosis cure. He claims that it renders baciliJ non-viru-lent, and also secures immunity from disease.

Two hundred and fifty delegates to the British Medical Association conferred in secret, and as an outcome declined to render service under the Insurance Act, unless amended. The congestion of the Sydney wharves becomes daily more pronounced. Heavy classes of cargo are sacked in the open in all directions.