AMERICA.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XL, Issue 22, 27 May 1908, Page 8

AMERICA.

Rear-Admiral Kingsmill has accepted command of the Canadian Marine service.

Canada is stationing cruisers on the 'Atlantic and Pacific Coasts for the protection of her fisheries. t

Mr. George Sterry, a multi-millionaire, Of New York, has been murdered by his son, because he proposed to marry a young wife. ' . The United States Congress has appropriated a million and a-half dollars for participation in the Tokio Exhibition of 1912.

A divorce decree has been granted against Alfred Vanderbilt, the wellknown millionaire, who is now in England, on the petition of his wife. Montgomery, a cashier of the Alleghany National Bank at Pittsburg, charged with absconding with £27,000 belonging to the bank, pleaded that he was “money mad.” The bank has suspended payment The conference of the two Houses in Washington, relating to the Post Office subsidy, accepted the Senate’s amendment providing a subsidy to carry the mail to Japan, China, Australia, South America, and the Philippines. The House of Representatives, however, threw out the Subsidy Bill.

National Duty and Ideals.

President Roosevelt, in welcoming at Washington the members of the General Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, attributed the great and peculiar role Methodism had played in American national life to Methodism’s essential democracy and the scope it gave to individual initiative and independence. After emphasising the importance of building up the spiritual and moral side of national character, he eulogised the woman doing her full duty in relation to wifehood and motherhood by rearing plenty of healthy children. These should be devoted to high ideals, and everything constituting the right type of family life, and courage, unselfishness and other qualities of true citizenship should be inculcated.

The Panama Canal.

Mr. W. H. Taft, American Secretary of State for War, who has recently visited Central America, reports that the construction of the Panama Canal is proceeding at a satisfactory rate. He anticipates that the excavation will be completed within four years.

The Indiana Horror.

The inquest on the bodies found on Mrs Guinness’ farm at La Porte, Indiana, where many victims were murdered and buried, has been concluded.

In his report the coroner states that Mrs. Guinness was burned to death as the result of felonious homicide, the perpetrator being unknown. The grand jury has indicted the man Lamphere, who had been employed on Mrs. Guinness’ farm at La Porte, Indiana, on a charge of murdering Mrs. Guinness and her children, also for incendiarism, and for being an accessory to the murder of Mrs. Guinness’ former husband.

Hindoo Revolutionaries in Canada.

The Vancouver correspondent of “The Times” reports that three educated Punjabis and Bengalis are directing a revolutionary school at Millside, near New Westminster.

Indians on the Pacific Coast, he says, contribute money, and the seditious movement in India is directed through Vancouver.

A Labour “Protest.”

Members of an American Labour union, as a protest against the employment of non-unionists, blew up and partly demolished a new steel bridge on the New-haven-Hartford railway at the town of Bronx.

They were frustrated in an attempt to blow up another bridge on the Bronx River, and when pursued by the authorities the fugitives droppeel ninety pounds of dynamite into the river.

Tradln* Facilities.

The Senate at Washington has ratified conventions between America and Japan for the protection of inventions, designs, trade marks, and copyrights belonging to Americans and Japanese against fraudulent imitations.

The object of the conventions is to facilitate trading in Cffiiam and Korean markets.