TO-DAY'S NEWS OF THE WORLD

Horowhenua Chronicle, 9 May 1913, Page 3

TO-DAY'S NEWS OF THE WORLD

!.BT KLKCTIUO TELEGRAPH-COPYRIGHT^ (Per Press Association.) (Received This Dya, O>U nm..) EMPIRE DEFENCE. LONDON, May 8. The Hon. Herbert Samuel, Post-master-General, visits Canada in the autiinin ui connection with the proposed St a to-owned Atlantic cable, to link up with the Pacific. He will attend a subsidiary conference on defence. THE MADJIAGETTES. A liomh was discovered outside a jeweller's establishment at Tottenham, inscribed ''votes for women. The fuse was not burning. CONCILIATION BILL. Mr A. J. Balfour explains that »i< would have voted for tho Conciliation Hill. UNSTABLE JOHN. Lady Carlislye. at the "Woinon's* Liberal Federation, denounced John I'Jiirns for refraining from giving a vote for women's suffrage, and said that a democrat forsaking a cause because militants threw flower pott> at him was not a stable palititian. COLD STOKAUE FOR MADRAGE'ITES. .Sir James Cric'hton-Hrowne. at the Cold Storage banquet, suggested that some women would he nil the better for a cooling, and it would be a groat relief to the public to ico them down in cold storage and hand them on to the next century <lootor6. W harry was fined £50 for preventing service of a writ on his suffragist daughter Lilian, in connection with the damage done at Kew. •'YOrXG HOT BLOODS."

The Druniniond siucl Clayton ease has lieun rosuinotl. Evidence was culled as to inflammatory .speeches, and the issue of inflammatory letters and circulars relating to the formation of a Young Hot Bloods Society, consisting of unmarried members of the Social Political Union. The stands adjourned until May 1.1. Unth nccuswl were granted bail.

UEDMONDS BUST. A suffragette was captured in Dublin Ait Gallery daubing Mr .Redmond's bust with green paint, in re vengp for the manner in which he voted on the Suffrage Mill. GLASGOW LAHOUHERS' STRIKE. Three thousand builders' labourers at Glasgow liavo struck foi- increase of wages. (Received This Day. 10 a.m.) Obituary.— The Dowager Duchess ;>t Xeu'castlo.

WHITEWASH. A bill relieving Sir Stuart Samuel M.l*., of penalties imposed in connection with the sale of silver to the fndia office has been read a first time. IMPERIAL TRADE. The Hon. Mr Ilarcourt has announced that he hopes the Imperial Trade Commission's report will be ready before the time for holding the next Imperial Conference. INDIA'S OPIUM The Hon. Mr Montague. .Parliamentary I'ndcr-Sem-tary for India, has announced that India this year is not soiling to China a single ounce of opium, and the Indian Government is prepared to relinquish the opium revenue (of eleven millions) by revising the treaty of 1911. provided China steadfastly extinguishes opium growing in her own territories. STILL IMPROVING. The Duchess of Connaught has imsed a fair night, and her strongth is maintained. INCREASE OF WAGES. The South Wales coalawnere have increased wages by 2J per cent.