TO-DAY'S NEWS OF THE WORLD.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 30 January 1913, Page 3

TO-DAY'S NEWS OF THE WORLD.

[BY KMtCTIUC TELKQIIAI'H— [PBR I'RKBS ASSOCIATION-] (Received This Day, 10.55 a.m.) DISGRACEFUL GRACE. LONDON, January 29. Grace Burbridge was endeavouring to place phosphorus in a letter-box, hut tho phosporus dropped 011 her arm, burning her. Bur bridge was medically treated, and remanded. TIIJC RUBBER SCANDALS. Alalia has cabled to the Putiimayo committee that he is coining to London to give evidence. HOME RULE BILL IN THE LORD. Li the Lords, Lord Selboiirne said that the union of South Africa was 110 analogy to Ireland; there was 110 Ulster in South Africa. There was a case for Irish Home Rule, but none for the present bill. GREEK SUCCESSES. A'l HENS, January 29. The ''Crown Prince" sliellod and blew up a Turkish magazine at Bigam. 'Ifie Greeks captured two lines of entrenchments. PARIS APACHES'. PARKS, January 29. Six youths, armed with revolvers and daggers, held up a tranicar and stole the takings. A sharp tight ensued with the officials and gendarmes. in which the youths fired at the tram. Four of the lads were arrested. VINDICATING THE LAW. LONDON, January 29. Williams, who was convicted of tho j murder of Inspector Walls, and Hopwood (the murdered of Florenco Dudley) have been hanged. THE ALLIES' NOTE. The Allies note has been handed to Reslied Pasha. 'I ho Roumanian and Bulgarian representatives held another meeting in London, under shadow of the Ambassadors conference. REAL PUNISHMENT. Mrs Drummond. who refused to pay her fine, on being sentenced to a fortnight's imprisonment in tho second division of prisoners, exclaimed, "For shame; you mean first division: there will be a hunger strike!" Several others received similar sentences. A KNITTING MACHINE MATTER "Wheeler, who was arrested at Yokohama without a charge being preferred against him. represented the Genz-W heeler Company, which obtained so many orders for knitting machines that deliveries were be-hind-hand. The firm believes this fact was the cause of the trouble and opine that the authorities have been guilty of high-handed procedure. THE WAR. ' Router states thai: the Porte is proposing peace concessions on a basis entirely new. likely to effect a solution of the present trouble. 1 ■EAGLE AND ORESCENT. CONSTANTINOPLE. .Jan. 29. Count A\ angenhoim, the German Ambassador, in a speech at the. German banquet, .said that, Turkey's future lay m Asia-Minor. Germany's interests there were bound up with liM'keys. and Germany's injunction was 'hands ofl Turkish possessions in Asia Minor!" RUSSIAN PRESS OPINIONS. ST. PETERSBIfRG, Jan. 29. 1 he Russian press condemns Germany s financial help to Roumania at the present junction. (Received this day 11.5 a.m.) POLITICAL LEVIES ILLEGAL. LONDON', Jan. 20*. -Mr Justice Neville yave judgment restaining tl;.e Lancashire and Cheshire Miners' Fedeartion front expelling Joseph Parr, and declared that political levies were illegal. "AN EMBARIi.VSSf~NG GIFT." Mr G. Roberts, ALP., presiding at a conference of the Labour Party at Lambeth, criticised Canada's offer of battleships, which, he said, would greatly add to Britain's annual expenditure. He went 011 to say that if the Hon. Winston Churchill's assurances were accepted that tlie defensive Forces were sufficient, three more vessels must be in excess of requirements. Moreover, giving the colonies representation was fraught with far-reaching consequences, and most be subjected to searching inquiry. PLENIPOTENTIARIES NOT I']. A note states that the plenipotentiaries awaited a reply for three weeks, but that events at Constantinople appeared to destroy the hope for peace, and therefore negotiations broken off.