THE EMPIRE.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 395, 2 January 1909, Page 10

THE EMPIRE.

Latest HeWS by the English MAiLi Tha United Klngtidmi . Lohtidfii November 21; An iniarestiiig statement, of. the feceiitlyfornibd Anti-Socialist. Union's aims and .'ob-jects-Ms bed'n isSbedi The tifiitin has. e'stab-.; lislied, i ' Bchool. for thfe training 6f aiitiSocialist- speikeri- ahd..'le6ttir£ifs, ; and . is rapidly ..organising) with a view to combating Socialism everywhere thrdughout the douiitryt A publid'atibh dbpartrtiht his .beflu fbi'ihSd) with d view to a national, pailipaigii against .Soclali'sih 'by.-aft.Sxtensiv« isstie. 6f, tfacts, and books. -Tho nniorij which is'ftot A pii'ty dtgiiiiiatiohj has very- influential - Tm statement points out that; there, are iibt in exist&nfcft 1100 brah'dhes of the ,tw6 principal Socialist brganisatibris alone. Fifty thbiiSand Socialist . meetings were held in thejast six months. It iisjihtehded that the; c6uitef-mbrempnt_ shall Be.dii i Jirdpbrtibnatß scale; An- iiitbresting fSature ot the iieiv mbveiheht-is tlie fadt tlmt, fof: the. fifSt time in British .politicsj_ pnioniSti: aiid .Liberals are. seriously 66M6ittiiig' to fight Socialism; ;; . England .is not,'pfte'n troubled witli colour notsj But.at Hull there was a feerioiis affray . between ' English' and ndgrb sailors, - The riot bdgan in d driiiiken'quarfel' between a ■ frhite and;a coloured, seaman; . A nirjilier of. the . negroes ran to • the .help. of their :cbmrade, and, set bit ,thb Englishman) ,whb : struck out nercoiy jintii supported in.turn.by.a.con-. tiiigeiit. or fijritistt' sailors- and, stpkerS, from thd docks; . The ;twd factions, whicn.iiicre'asdd iii hu'mbors aS the t'rbublb prdgressed,. fought with great .deterWinatiolij.the ..Englishnieii. gridually driving.the iiegrdes. b6fpfe them: A: lai-gs browd .wAtch'e'd the. fight,. but 'did . hot itteinpi to hiterfere;, Maiiy. of. th&; sailors received; ibjilribs', aiid an .Ebglish,, fiffimiiii iianied Hiigli Shehry, wds stabbed; Tlife polina; eventually i'bstotfed 6rdel ; ;.; ! i. Glasgow ' policetriaitl oA his rounds ,cHihe across, sign's of a burglarious entry into-. .a grdcerlß -wiif'ehousei.' On, cuto'rjhg he fouiid that, the:cash desk had been ftrced, aiid . a. numbef .of bbxes contairiinK, ;whisky priiiccii open; Further Search bf; a man, coverbd with a waterproof) lyihg. .u .the foot of .a lift.;. It is; considered certain'tl at he .niiilt hare fdllen doWii thb well of the lift iiid fraetufed his skull while 'cbrimiittirig the robbefy;.. The wAtsrprdbf . . placed bver . his body ivaa &wdbnc& that lib . had Had sb'iilb cciiir paiiibiis with"; hitti;Later iii th 6 day,;th6 oe£.d man. was identified, as Andrew Buchanan) a jabourbr, . dwelling iii one of the lowest quartets of the city. , . ; : ' i; '. ■ ;Mts. ' Qhrrett AndbHoii) - wis 'duly 4l(!ctfed' MSyor. .of. Aldebtirgh at .th'e : reCUiit mtihliiipal vi?ii It chiirbli on Stihdiyj sitpborted liy tM mOhiWri "if tho; cbVporatipii; Mrs; Mayor AHdedtiiij: wesSrlhg .bhainfe, bf offibte. and carrying &. •.§ilf«'?''ffi'acej led the ftidfcessibn bbtweM rdWi of lifbhbatifibH and ; Territorials;' ; thb Streets Wers lilied : 'approving ofpwds bf "bMiirSlbfiiats; ffoM . Sajacdtit towflii An, extraotdiriary 'state of affairs has pfe-, vailed, during ,the;. .week,..at ■ Coylihg, nfcar Keighley, iti the. West Jtidiug .bt. Yorkshire. The cliarred" remains of Edith .Wliitakfcrj a farmer's Werb fouhd- in.' a cbrbiier's-juty. retiiriieil an ;open verdict dii hbr -deaihi,:,-But;..6n Siinday. tho. vicar 6f. the,,.parish,- declared; ih.^his, Ser- , ttioA; that ;h§_ h.elievea -that.; tlio • gitl: . was miirdWedv,;;"l., believe,; lie said),-.''that she went : biitside t-tHb r - house, for : sdnioareasbni' 4nd was by/a.blbw;- bi: was:.strangled . hdr cloth? . ;was- set dii fire in; order to. destroy all evidence :,of ;,viblence." This - pronouncement Arbusod :tHß...w}ibl6..district/ • .It is reported that ;a. man-.with: a. khifd' had -.Been; seen: in the neighbourhood recently running about at night, naked or clothed bnly-iinvai shirt;. and ;thp .theory, of miirder Ms/generally.6 aeceptbd. i'-'ichbol-. ..hoyj.'Mi'^Fredenclc'Fazack^f.By ;bt PreStoii with' a .Rpyhi.. i Humahb Sodibty's cbrtificatbi j' Cblohbl. Trimblb); in presenting it,' ;■ bbiiiplirivented MF:■'JaMbkSfßjfv; bii ! '" his courage; aridVpromptness,';-saying that- thb was: 'the .bra'vb 1 bbt of ' a 'brivb mfi'n. Mr.. Fazackerby ."'waS.- playing golf ;Vbii;. the Ashtbii ■ 1 ihlis ; ;.tfhen 'hei: heard screams for help, .frdm the rivet lieil'r by; - He- plunged ; into thb' river '.ftiily dressed, and brought thb boy to thb'bank. - - - ■ - ... Ah ;uniiiuar*biirglary ;wai "bomMittedit Tste4yj .i& Siirrey..; i'hibves'. bibke :ifttcf thb villiigb ,'clihrch aud ' stripjied .'it 'dl; liedrly all its- brass',offlambntsj b'ai-ryin'g; blf. two large . c'ahdelaßl;a:'Weighing a hilfldredweight : bach.: togfethelv Witli"thb:. Mss fout ,!e\Vbr,. the otter; tory'plate)'' irbfc : bbiiiicl: oftertqfy - box-.: -; They. also .'-ehtered tho bburbh ; at Liflipsfibld) ...near by,-.:frher,6.: they draiili tlio la'craiiseiital: wine.;. But .the bnly Wtible vtobk. front, the- secbhd: church was thb blfertory box. • ' , ■: of th^e Abfetralidii fbotbali t-pam to 'Cambridge celebrated air organised in-thos evening;.; lie streets were full of,s&oUiing: crowds; ffiw&tiy.'.cdnijdsed'.-uni dergiadiiateSj...whb, letiblt firewbrks ahcl eii- | deavbuied to. start boiifires.As tiiey ffiiirciied from ; place; to; place they: Broke and ex,tin= guished the street lamp's, finally-hiade .a fell ;fbr...Bdmb .haysfepks ih ;a held- the' iringe' bf the..tbtfii. , One'6f these was soon iii names; ,:;Aftei;. ,;tiVd .hpiits' hard work the life brigade' and . the .police: siicceedetl' in extjngiiishing the fire and dispersing the crowd. No diiej hoivever; ¥as iirrestdd;' ... : Figures .shomhg the: feitiftrkabie df the British- hewsp&per' Pi-ess' were glveh by Mh 0. Afrdty:at a dlhher iii/aid: <jf', thb Newsvebdoii',; Benevoleiit tiiid Pfovideht ih-: stitutibh.' : '■ .'-'ln. ISiO;": he': told Ills au'diehce; i tliete . Wbfe. 500 heWspapers','' in 18T0 -thb number;, liad inbreiised'to la7ov a'hd nbwthbt ligiirb hits reached thb eiionilblis tSthl ; of type of mabiiiiiefy produced: 8000 'cbilililbtfe .cbtiieS of 1 aii- eightM'e. Wer iil oiie UPbh ; ' NbW 2bjooo copies it a tfrelity-fotil'-jiage paper are prddiicba ih the sahib time." • • - Ah-eaHifadrdiiiary. 3f. kidiiappihg Was tbld:'b|, a hoy of twelVe hanied Bebi'gb Leach'., frho feapgbafed at his libuib at Blackpool on •^ra^iy J ;-'S6r6ttb^-'.l^-.VaftSr;:Mifig.-'':lßs{.'. siiicb .last June. ' It,.appears that he was, ..ih: the street, when a man: induced him to'carry .a parcbi; tb a street iibar .by; , There the man. seized, him.'.and,-tbbk "hiih iway. . H'iS; clothes were cohfiscatedj and he tvas forced to wear. filthy ,rags and'to. act ■ fis guide for the ihah's wife,' a Blind'woman, frho .wtnt on.tramp; In order to get moiidy 'NT hbggiiig 'the. boy .frafe l fotbed to prbtbrtu' to bb the blind woman's sbh. ' Tlie thteewbiit from- tdwii 'to .twvnj sleeping uhdef; 'hayarid'the boy w ; as sb. frequently beaten that on liis Return :he was. I'ourid to Be cbvbfed with bruises. The .first opportunity lie got df 'escaping .was at .Ediiißbrgh; frliei-b he; niaiiagetl to get to the : :police .fet'dtibh; The next .day .the police sent ; :liim -hbhie; ' The' Hoh.- Maty;..Fraiices..pQwys, .whose,estate lias been pl'byed at M48,000j- has lei't iiumerous .bequests for .'the .Benefit ef; dogs, cats, birds; horses; - iiiid aiiiiiials - iii general. Among 1 the' bequest's, are £500 for . tlie .So- . cibty . for, the Prbveiitibii of . Cruelty to. Ailihials,.,£3oo ,1b the.;l)6gs', : Hbnie, £200, for tlie. Cats' ■ Home, £2.00. for the Hohie of Rest, fbi' Horses) aii'd "£3OO • for .the.. Vivisection; Society;, ".- :.... ■ , A herbic . rbsclld- tijbk pibb; Off thb cdafet of Coiliity Dowil;- AV'libli the mbfillhg Was Stili dark. -tb. the 'irihabi-. taiits of Olpughcr); a .:'villagb 'on -.the cbast; that i Ship httd - ibne ,bli rthe .rbbks ; diiring -biiriliiig - 'Aires'to sign iii - her desjifera td igHt: E jery i niah . in, tile village. olterbdj in ,f6spbllsb ti a call fof VoluhtebrS; ~tb man the lifebbat; which ;fras. bfotightT-with' thii : greatiiit , fliffi? .ouity withiii tchbli bf the ship.;, .Thb . vessel proved to B.e: the, Frfefidli', Bkrqiie Groifeset, bbubd fi-oni New, Caledbriift to Glasgow,' with a 'cai'go of inel;fl-ore; kntl-* efiTf of tweht.Ttiv6 iiieri. Theib #erts cblfipilleil to leap for their livKS ibto the plbriging lifeboat, ai tha biilT .hißtiiiS bf sifetj; aii'd by griit, gbbd i I'dfliinb tHby,; all. siicbeedid. In laiidihff' sufili' ■ iiii Board. :- L: reuiftrhaßle &nd-;.anusuai' 'Bcett6'„iyas" %iti ! ' neSsed at, Blackburn on; Sunday; Bish&p Tlldriiton challenged ill Atheiitid lectlirer to' ? take part iii a debate on till) BihliS. 'l'lib ' bhalleiigb: wiis. accd'ptedj. arid, aii: itiinieiise - crowd of oebple, numbering from 15.00CJ to

20,000, assembled,; in'. 1 the market placo U • listen to the'.debated The'secularist speaker attacked the purity of the Bible, and the Rov. A. J. Waldrbn, of the Christian Evidence Society; replied by describing tlie Bible is the fairest biography in the world. Thf ' fleeting took the keenest interest in the , discussion; - and .Bishop Thornton concluded it"' by calling For ''Three cheers for the grand <Jld Bible." Canada, : The Canadian Government is considerint the'advisability of introducing , a measure to . amend the rules.of .debate in;the'.Commons, .. '" along tho lines of thoie in'use in the British' Houbo of Commons. Aft lhlludntial deputation, representing the Merchants' Association" waited :. upon Sir Wilfrid ■LauHer tS'cbhvfey ,tb him a; message of goodwill toward Canada from the ■' business riieii. of. Boston, and:. New England; The deputatibft .invited. Sir Wilfrid to go to:.- - Boston ss the: guest of; the.'assbbiatibil;. and ■urged the advantage of a more frequent; iiatercharige of visits betwefen., the piiblic ine2 ™ Canada and the' "United States. In reply : the Premier, &aid..ihat. he always was anxious; to promote f fifendly relation's Between thb two' countries^. and ivould bo. glad to, accept the wvitation to vifeit the United States, .if ..ho ?9 U ], ,time from'.tho, public .duties - . Of country ted. if: lis, health. permitted, - would probably not be able to pay such a until aftet nfext sdssion of Parliament. : Professor. .Gebrge .Btfifbert Lbclie, fcfnltriy % '■ of oUc4go , University, and-lately:Dean' of:; : . MacDonalu College and of Education at the. JM'Gill Dnivci'sity, lias been ll ■ dppoihted Piiblib; Librarian for Toronto; • ■ The caj)ital,inyested iii the.farming industry. ■ df Ontario :is now estimated Jjy the Depart- V merit of. Agriculture at 1,200,000 dollars (£246,575,3152)', -:ftith; 'aii. ;ailiiuhl- return -to-V . 175,000 farmers. of .; 200,000,000 . dbllara • (£41,035,892); Scientific nifethbdi,of farming c;-' and -dairying have': Been generally .adopted throughout ;the rftrb'viiice. as. a result of the: . Vigorous campaign of education by way of '' ; lectures; and...the-free distribution of, literal,; 1 ; ture, etc; .The vhlbb M dAhual'-'agri'dtiltforil ; / products has inbrbiiSed very rapidly of late years; •• / Whaling -operatioris. on.-the west poasfc .of , Vancouver Island .have be® siisjWnd(id::fbr . .; the season.; . lii hll-650. whales ;were taken; ' The station oil' the eiist sitlo'bf tfre 'lsliiid-, .^here''the ; 'Mtejfß^-nro'i]?rdt§c^: , - i ff6m''o'b6M : r:'' storms, will be operated during the winter, nionths. 'The whalmgindiistry is a very : -' profitable one here; but the' herring fish'erikeii; complain that .the. ..daughter ; of. the great marine mammals is interfering witli tlio lier- ' ring catch. :y.; / : ."••"■■■ V Dr. Grenfellj : .th& . L&Bfadof missibfiary; :; 1 : Addressed a.-Jiediily .iiitetested auaieflc6 : 'in.' Trinity (Mtcli, Nefr .oh.Mtto>r- V 4nce df his 'Wotk; . .Qfl .arfivil. iii St.. Joh,n:hd -. V ". learned of the death of the captain of. hid. schooner;.-. thevLprna .Doono. Tie man was swept overboard by.a.Big sea fthile the vessbl ' TJ as her way to Boston. for siipplies fof: v the Grehfell; station at. St; Ahtbriy; , . . i.^ r ' P' Miry Cbmmissioii'er, says . .. «»t; the future ;of the dairy industry iii ~ Alberta, is; .wonderful ,to contemplate.;' -"All ' ' during the,suhiriier it was ; very diffioiilt-.to■ supply the .eveifriiic'rcasiiig defiiahd for gobt?'-.v; tfreamery butter. The .averagb. prices in this • ■province, have been higher than any other province in ;thb Ddhlinimt, frith the ekception.' • . of British Columbia:" ■.-', ;; ;. Ths_ ''Tdr6ti|oi .KeWa'|,is : & qoitnbution to ImpefinJ.aefeiicb or tlie brgahisa-. ■ tipn of a Canadian Navy. It points out that ■ ■ An; 24 hb'iirs : ai.'ene&iy'e: ships' cbiild; cause : Canada r more_ loss, 50 tiines.over r than an an- . nual expenditure ou naval defencc would ■reach- if: co'ntMed'. fof teii-days.'. Hcnce, 'a ; '* naval poliosis, tlife.. judnwat.policy^',: It says . that .-just •■ as '■ lbiig' as.. w_ belong v t'b'" ''' the ,Empire '.'juityas long inust'CSiisidtv• do :i Vher duty to :lißr§6lfvaß jiaH; of. tlie Empire. ; - Anstraliti. fngAr'ds this visit of the Uhited ; ■ States Fleet iii a nibans ■: of' ' ■ apinst ' Asiatic.invasion; ;Our Western.coast' is just .is to -the daflger, y ki\d it Is straining it;.:. Doctrine Canada'sfrerage'! ; ahd^protection:' • fl^r:best prot€(itibn :CSii3aa. BSs liot got 'either'bit-thQ''' Atlantid-or the. Pacific;,, Alistraliii proposes V to; 0 elassiarid '■ six destroyer's,' and to-put ,tliGin iri commis- .' '-~ sioniover, a-period^bf.three;years; Canada' ; can liatdly do Ifess tiihii this, thbugli" r .the'': Me-jinight ..be. mbrb (Dxteiidedj; so as tribute the cost ovet- a grdater period.''' ; - '. New Briihiwick has '.iiad. no snow yet this .y«ari;ali'd outdoor worlt,,such as railroad.constructionj goes steadily on; ■; Sportsmbh who .^iirjor.big^iuei'Km.talking' aboiit the suc-.'. cess of the tbis season; Claren- ;.i;: don is .a little ."village jbbut aii lidur's jour- "• ney. from St: Johii: ; F6tli;tfejeil :',mbbsb : hefids • ' have:'Bete;.''shipped ■ ffoia that" tillbge. witHin . ii'x weeks]' '. nieiliitiiig a;' '■:'. spread of 54iii.i another'of 58ini. Aiid,Glaren- ; •:' r but ' ofe'/ot iiianj. places' with a liko ' : record. , South Africa. j .The first apjiearnnce for niiiny yeafs'of' an . v improvement'.in: raiiwaj-': aild Jniport retiirns}' -7 coupled with the doming of the. National Con-' '; vention to Capetowhy is.silid .tB :h&ve'greatly ; ■: encouraged a somewhat depressed CQinmuhity. V: v '!• The.apjieals liave Been'heard at Pretoria of ' thb. fifty-ioilr "Indians who were sentenced tu"; fines of £50.,6f iHrde. fii6htlis'.:hatd labour foi ' fe-entoHng thd. Transvaal after having been . twlbo dßtiortdtl;Tlie Chief Justice said that ■ the' Registration. Act did;jiot a'pßlv ,t6 tlib ap- * " pellinU, aS 'thby -Triinsi - vaal,when.thd-Act ea'me into force.. The con- - Vibtionfc Wbiildi.th'erefb'rbj be ijiiashcd. ; Tlio etuiker Sqilftdroa, undef. the' command -V of Sir: Percy Scott Capetown fbiySt. Helena;jand .Eio:;de, Janeiro.;:;. It. is , bstihiated'tliat iiibre tli'aii 60,000 pdople visited ; the warships during their inchorage ill Table Bav. v ii;i'Thti. l Naihl Minister'.for,':AgHculturej. the ;' . Hon. W. A. Deane, m the courto of an InteltieWj stated that the GdvCjhinight. aro J bteadily ; pursuing a policy. of elpsfer settlehient. ; Tney ai'o engaged iii Sequiriiig more, ' - ' laKd, one'plot which Ms j&st beeii.\secured.. being 1100 acres in- extent, containing 27 homast'eads. Tlie agricultural . jifpspec'iis; he-,' : ; l.cqnoludcdj were never brighter in thd^'History .f, 1 ' ; of Natal. :; ' ', ; : Ehofhioiis .dahiags .has been doiie By stbribs ind floods at Port Elizabeth. Ofring tb the . ;' favages of the, storm the visiting . English . . :.UMls t'edM .had 'to play' the . lbbal. warns iii'- . iide the feather market.; The. visitors'.jron"all the events. :" \ ; . India, • : . The statue of . the late Queen Victoria it''' the public gardens' at Nagpur has .been^niutK\i : . lateai'; tlie ,fa6e Being diiiibed with tarj' &ridf. the hose, -fingers',; Sud; sceptre;broken-. I'he:'. ' ; il|fedctatidii: lias - fevbkfitl -gf edt '' Migration; ;, The Btatue is - dne. ( of. the Que'eA 'Victoria ■ ; ! hieiliorials .erected in :the lirbviiicb;. and was unvdilfed by Sir Andrew Eraser two years ago. •, ;'The Central Provinces and Bera'r Exhibition open it Nagpur. is;one, of -the 'largest' ever : libld iii liiditi-. .It eldqlleiitly illustrates tho : great success of Indian intiustries and tlio, progress of tho Cehtral Provinces during the last half ceiitury. ' The body of a ilhtivej who fras alleged to; ; liayp giveiv informntioii to the ailtlidrities,; regarding, a political disturbance, wdt fbuiid ; 1 shdekingly. niutilated; (it Dacca. -; The police I ', have arrested,tw-o.students on suspicion.: ". There is no doubt that the' bulk, of the - popillatibii. is: fully prepared ;t-q -siippbrt ijiiy I effort of the, Government to suppress aiiarcby.. A suggestion has been to - proclaim i 1 martial Ipr. in. CSlciittaj but this is gcherally • disapproved .as being ■ ineffective agiiiiist secret assassins. . ■ V ~ ; - A strong attack oh the Indiah educational , has -been made by Sir James Ilewitt, < Lieutenant-Governor of the United Provinfces > at tha annual convocation of 'Allahabad Um- - vifiitj'; Sir James deplored the continued' Mid systematic uoglect of vernacular litera- ; tltffti Slid especially condemned the almost tbtbl absehcS of thy; si'stoih of moral trdhiihg fof. Ibdiiiii • yoUtli-. ;_Under' the . existing systebi "■: hd.sdidj tlldri was lldthing whatever to bold tllelii.to the faith of their fathers, and notli- '- 'ing else wds giVen thelii to make Up for this - : ddl)rlvatibh;. Tlid-address caused sbmd soiisa- ' •tlpiii ; but ■ iS-;genfe¥ally.; admitted to be absolutely. iu'stified. ■ tjieut.-Geiieral Sir Edward Locke Elliot, K.C.B.j lias just relinquished the command of the Lucknow Division after forty years of practically unbroken services in Ifldia.