NEWS OF THE WORLD.

Clutha Leader, Volume XL, Issue 40, 18 November 1913, Page 3

NEWS OF THE WORLD.

SHIPS AND THE SEA. A STEAMER ON FIRE. l OTTAWA, Nov. 15. A report from Cape Race states that the bpanisli steamer Balmes is on fire. One hundred passengers were transferred to the Panuonia. PROCEEDING TO BERMUDA. mu » , EW YORK > Nov - 10 ' i'he Ualmes is proceeding to Bermuda under her own steam, accompanied bv tiie Pannoma. STEAM COLLIER SUNK. OTTAWA, Nov. 15. Wreckage at Bird's Island Rock, in the bt, Lawrence River, indicates that the steam collier Bridgeport has sunk. *orty-two of the crew have been drowned and 10,000 tons of coal lost

1 BRITISH POLITICS. % HOME RULE PROBLEM. I Ar*, LONDON, Nov. 15. Mr Redmond (the Nationalist leader) speaking at Newcastle, said that the , ; at , 1 , ona '! sts would welcome a settlement : of the Horn'j Rule problem bv consent and would consider any demand consistent with the principle of national self- | government. The Marquis of Salisbury, sneaking to Ily mouth Unionists, said that tkw ■ would be glad to consider any properlvnc\ iscd measure lor t'be further cxtonsion of local government, but would not give Ireland a Constitution under which she might become independent. LAND POLICY CAMPAIGN. • LONDON. Nov. 15. 1 reparations are being completed for a great speech-making campaign throughout the United Kingdom after Christmas in support of the Government s land policy. THE SUFFRAGETTES. MR REDMOXD STRUCK. A o nt LONDON, Nov. 15. A Suffragette before a train reached Newcastle struck Mr Redmond (the Nationalist leader) on the face with her handbag. She was arrested. HON. A. BIRRELL REMINDED. LONDON, Nov. 15. • Hon. A. Birrell (Secretary for Ireland), while addressing the Youn"' Liberal Party at 'Bristol, was struck hard oil the client with a dead eat thrown by a man. who shouted, "Torture that instead of defenceless women." FASTING MAN'S OFFER. NEW YORK, Nov. 14. Tanners, a fasting man living at Hartford (Connecticut), expressed a desire to marry Mrs Pankhurst (the English militant Suffragette leader), pointing out that abstention from food constituted an ideal link between them. Mrs Pankhurst, w'lien besieged by reporters, flushed with anger and * described the offer as insulting. She added: "I am a politician and not a marrying person.!' THF. MEXICAN SITUATION. MEXICAN CITY, Nov. 15. ' The Senate failed to sit, the Catholic , Party abstaining from attending, a quo- | rum consequently being lacking. General Carranza, the Constitutionalist leader, is now treating with the , United States, with a view" to the lilting of the embargo on the importation of munitions of war. General Carranza swears that nothing less than the complete overthrow of President Huerta ! win satisfy his party. , The Chamber of Deputies met despite the Senate's failure and transacted rou- ! tine business before adjourning. , 14 WORKMEN BURIED. 1 NEW YORK, Nov. 15. ' lorly. foet of a seven-storey concrete building collaosed at Oder Rnp'ds, lowa, and buried 14 workmen. Four < were recovered injured. There is no hope for the others. 5 j COPPER MINE DISASTER, j ST. PETERSBURG, Nov. 15. ( A fal lof earth in the copper * mines killed six and injured 28. l BEGS FOR DEATH SENTENCE. NEW YORK, Nov. 18. A man named Spencer, who confereed ! to 29 murders, has been sentenced to.! death at Chicago on a charge of mur« ' derm" Mrs Reyroat He tied her to a railway track and shot her. Then he placed the body where the train would mutilate it. He annealed to the jury j i the death wnteiire and curs* 1 ed his own counsel and the prosecution. ; P. AND 0. OFFICERS' PAY. < LONDON, Nor. 15. ! The new Peninsular and Oriental ! Steamship Company's wages scale pro- ' Vides that captains of .ma.ilWit* shall ' receive £IOOO per annum., captains of ! Intel-mediate steamers £6OO to £9OO, i chief officers £lB to £25 per month, se- \ cond officers £l4 to £l7, third officers £l3 to £l3 10s, junior £B. Tlk* officers will receive throe weeks' holiday yearly.' Ihe company ie elaborating a pension scheme.