WORLD’S NEWS IN BRIEF.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume XVII, Issue 4, 5 June 1914, Page 1

WORLD’S NEWS IN BRIEF.

PER GABLE. A 00-operative Congress is being j held at Dublin. It represents a trade of 130 million annually, a share capital of 41 millions, a trading profit of £14,260,000, and a. membership of 3,011.390. The Chicago Municipal Court has decided not to board out children to childless foster parents unless the Municipal Psychological Laboratory has certified to the physical and mem tal soundness of the latter. home sea .scouts who were sailing iu a cutter were, capsized oil SomerLoytou, iu Sulfolk, when hoisting a sail. Three instructors, including an ex-navy man, and three hoys were drowned. The Irish papers were Jilled with accounts of demonstrations, of bonfires on every ili«ill, of processions, and meetings, and bands playing in every town in Ireland because Homo Rule was won. At the Irish Trade Union Congress now being held at Dublin, Mr James Larkin was elected president. Mr Larkin will visit New Zealand very shortly. Mr Roosevelt declares that he has weighed the Democratic Administration iu the balance and found it wanting. The relations between the United States and Japan a re drifting into a dangerous stale. i Sensational stories arc appearing in the American Yellow Press, that the Empress's ciew were cowards. Miss Townsend, of New Zealand, declares that such statements arc absolutely wicked. The. crew did everything they possibly could. On inspection the S tors lad's bows indicate that it was impossible for the, stem to have remained locked In the Empress's side', as the bow is twisted out of shape by the Empress’s motion. It is stated positively that nineltenths of the victims whose bod Los have been recovered were not drowned, but killed by injuries received durum the collision, or by the debris.

The identification of Mrs Price, of New Zealand, was made after about sixteen members of the crow claimed that the body was that of the stewardess.

The Mayor of Quebec had to decide the parontship of a child who was killed on the Empress, which two fathers claimed. The ‘Mayor compared the features of the fathers, and also those of the dead mother, and awarded the colfin to a Toronto claimant.

The tinal o Ificia, 1 figures are—lo 24 lost, 432 saved.

Throe men were charged with attempting to duck ■ suffragettes in a pond near London. The Magistrate lischarged them with a caution, without hearing their defence. Colonel Moore, wdio is (Organising Nationalist Volunteers, says that they stand to resist the claim of Unionists to exclude counties where Unionists are in a minority,

-Sir E. Carson addressed a meeting' l , of women in East Belfast. He said despite the Government’s fleet and all the preparations that wore being made, Ulster was going to have more Mausicrs, and would never give upthose they had. The Trade Union Congress in Dublin rejected proposals to exclude Ulster from the Home. Buie Bill by 82 to 2. A; hitch has occurred in the peace negotiations, owing to the Constitutionalists' request to be included in th;C conference. They point out that they expect to reach Mexico City within a week. Carranza has declared himself Provisional President.