THE GENTLER SEX.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1735, 28 April 1913, Page 5

THE GENTLER SEX.

GRIM METHODS OF WARFARE.

BOMB OUTRAGES. j Br Telegraph—Presß Aesooiation—OopyriEti London, April 25. A policeman extinguished a fuse connected with a bomb found.oll tho doorstep of Lloyds' Bank at Cardiff, A label with tho inscription "Votes for women" on it was attached to the Ijomb. The Suffragettes exploded a bomb in tho County Hall at Newcastle. Only small damago was done. A HARMLESS BOMB. (Rec. April 27, 5.5 p.m.) London, April 26. The bomb which waa at Lloyds Bank at Cardiff contained harmless material. FAMOUS SCHOOL THREATENED. London, April 25. The police have been informed of Snffragctto plots to burn Harrow School, blow up the residence of Mr. Blair, M.F., at Weald, and kidnap tliij son of Mr. Justice Lush, who sentenced Mrs. I'ankhurst. .< Suffragettes attempting to mcot at Troubridgo were pelted with rotten orange?, eggs, rags, flour, and garbage. FIRING A TRAIN. (Rec. April 27, 5.5 p.m.) London, April 26. Suffragettes set five to a train on a siding at Seddington. Three compartments were burnt out beforo the iirc brigade extinguished the outbreak. The train was an express. SUFFRAGETTES RELEASED. lr _ London, April 25. Mrs. Despardand two other Suffragettes, charged with obstructing Trafalgar Square, were released. Someono paid their fines. GENERAL CABLEGRAMS. By Telegraph—Pro9s Association—Copyright f THE WAIHI MINE. (Rec. April 27, 5.5 p.m.) London, April 26. Tho Directors of the Waihi Gold Mining Company havo reduced their foes by -MOO a year each, and the chairman's bv j .£2OO. BARQUE ASHORE.' 1 London, April 20. The barque Dundee, bound from Newcastle to Guayaquil (chief port of Ecuador) is aslioro at Puna Island, in the Morro Channel, near her port of destination. PAUPERISM IN ENGLAND. London, April 26. Ihp pauperism returns for the end of March aro tho Jowest on record. The decline is attributable to tho operation of tho Old Age Pensions Act. NEW PETROLEUM FIELD. • Buenos Ayres, April 26. A lnrgo petroleum field has b&on discovered in til© province of Salta, in Argentina. . COOK'S ANNIVERSARY. iJO , '. Sydney, April .20, ihe 143 rd anniversary of the landing 0/ Captain Cook has been ■ celebrated at Botany Bay. Speeches, were delivered by Sir Gerald Strickland, Governor of New South Wales, and Admiral Sir George IviUR-flall, and others. , RARE MINERAL-RECORD FIND. Hobart, April 26. A prospector near Pieman River unearthed a nugget of osmiridium weighing two ounces —a world's record. AVIATOR KILLED. . Berlin, April 2G. A Russian aviator named Abraniovich was killed while flying at Johanriisthal (a town in Austrian Silesia).

FATALITY IN STEAMER'S STOKEHOLD. , Berlin, April 25. By an explosion in the stokehold of tho steamer Imporator, eight firemen wore killed andl three critically iujured. Berlin, April 26. Ilio occurrence was clue io the ox plosion of a bonzine tank. Two of the men aro dead, and threo aro dying: "OUR DAILY BREAD," Berlin, April 25. A Privy Councillor, Herr Hugonburg, chairman of Krnpps, denies the charges of bribery. He states that bis firm received dozens of': socrot reports daily. "Secret reports aro our daily bread," ho said. A POLLING BILL. London, April 25. Mr. W. Pearce's Bill fixing polling hourg at between 7 in tho morning nnd !) o'clock in tho evening. was carried in. the House of Commons by 208 voles lo 58. FANCY PRICE FOR A GAINSBOROUGH. London, April 25. Gainsborough's picture, "A Market Cart," was auctioned for 19,200 guineas. ANGLO-SAXON PEACE. London, April 25. Tho King received tho Peace Centenary Delegation prior to its departure for New York. / TURAICINA SAILS. Rio de Janeiro, April 25. Tho Turakina, recently budly damaged, has sailed. NEW ZEALANDER, VICTIMISED. London, April 25. Mr. Sims., formerly a Now Zealand milling engineer, was tho victim of a trick. His Joss ariounted to .£SOO. 600 MILES THROUGH THE AIR. j Paris, April 25. Mr. Gilbert made a non-stop, flight from I Paris to Vitteoria, a distance of COO miles, in 503 minutes. SPIES IMPRISONED. Berlin, April 25. | At Leipzig, a man named' Kohler was sentenced to seven years' imprisonment for espionage on behalf of Russia and France, and his wife lo nine months' imprisonment. ARCHBISHOP CLARKE'S ILLNESS. London, April 25. Thorc is a deqided improvement in tho condition of Archbishop Clarke, of Melbourne. FALSE PRETENCES. Tokio. April 25. Wheeler, the representative of the flcnx. and Wheeler Company, arrested in February la-l ami charged willi obtaining money by false pretences, was sentenced to four years' penal servitude. Ho has appealed against the sentence. CHEAPENING NEWSPAPER POSTAGE London, April 25. Tho Postmaster-General. Mr. Herbert Samuel, proposes in a few dayx to introduce a one-clause Bill to enable colonial newspapers to bo roposted in Great Britain at tho same rate ns British newspaper?. THEOLOGICAL DEGREES. (Rcc. April 27, 5.5 p.m.) London, April 20. The Cambridge Congregation has. adopted statutes removing existing limitations on theological degrees.