Additional Cables.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 10 March 1913, Page 4

Additional Cables.

(Sydney Sun). I NEW YORK, February IS. Although the occasion is yet two years off,, preparations for celebration of the centenary of the Treaty of Ghent, which will mark tho close of a hundred years of peace 'between England and America, are already afoot. The 24th December, 1913, will mark tho hundredth anniversary of t-ho ratification of the Treaty and the American committee that is arranging for its commemoration pro- '. poses that the event should be celchrated by the English-speaking peoi pie on both sides of tho Atlantic maintaining silence for a period of «ve minutes on the date in quesi tion. At the last meting of tho committee Senator Root announced that this plan had met with the approval of tho British committee. : LONDON February 12. The Kaiser made a pious speech at tho Berlin University yesterday, in tbo course of which he declared that Germans feared God and nothing elso in the world. I The Public Health Committee of the London County Council has recommended tlie preparation of an extensive scheme for the treatment of tuberculosis in London. At a recent ' conference of sanitary and insurance authorities it was estimated that 50,000 Londoners suffer from the disease. The Ounard liner AquitHiiia, which will be the largest vessel afloat in theworld is to bo launched at Clydebank on April 21. NEW YORK, February 12. : Au extraordinary tragedy is reported from Evansville, Indiana, where three negroes employed at a. woodworking establishment were shot dead by their employer's son, Allon von Behren. The murderer afterwards drove, to the police station and .surrendered himself. Questioned as to what had niado him do such a desperate act, he said: "I had to kill them because they swore they would get me." Alien, who is only 22 years of age, and whoso father is a millionaire, was a patient in a san- ■ atorium two yearn ago. One form of the mania from which he is suffering is his aversion to negroes. ITpon his trial, therefore, the defence will endeavour to show that the prisoner is insane. It was feared that the shooting of the bLaeke would lead to a serious outbreak in the negro quarter of the town, winch is consequently now surrounded by a heavily armed guard ready to quell the first hostile move against tho white population.'

J LONDON, February 12. 1 A French artist, who has returned from an expedition to the Balkans, was asked what, snbjccfs lie hud secured for his canvasses. He ■ replied tersely: "Mud, Ijlood and silence." J The wearing of a monocle or single ' eye-glnse is becoming a craze among fashionable American women. ; The Iriograph film of the wellknown play "Quo Vwulis," 8000f' long, has been bought at auction fo r £7.600 This price includes fifteen copies and the exclusive rights for England for two years. Some extravagant language hafi ixNjn employed at public meetings hold in Lueknow and Madras, and there ras been a manifest tondenoy to develop a strong anti-British TeelI'lg. The Arra Khau, however, bias i n'lrlvp.vfiod the Moslems, stating tba* must in future bo an A«>atic Towei , , and that it is to Fng:.l:iikl'h interest ohnt slie should be f I great Power in oHpt to guard the road to India. Therefore, ho insists, Moslems in India must not do anything to weaken England's interests in Islam.

The Bishop of Trieste, in hie Len- ! ton pastoral, vehemently denounces the modern fashion in women's dress as scandalous and want-mi, and declares that it is adopted c r>- fVo <?olp nurnose of attractinc O'e a anc i 'he nttenfcion of men. T^n R''sliop .limits that it is not epi f rary to 'he d ; vine I.tws for women to dress ifcording to their station in society, 'nit present-day fashionable cofitumee "'0 points out) do not fulfit the main O'irpose of clothing, wind do not minister to either modesty or bodily comfort. Ladv Constance Stewart-Richavd-s'on, daughter of the late Earl of Oromartis, Fias electrified Vienna •'•itli be rdancing at \ho people's Onera House, where sho is at present ai>p<?aring in a drama entitled "Jud L ith," which is based on the Maccahoan wars. Lady Constance lately expressed a wish to dance in London, but Royalty discountenanced the performance.