Second Edition British and Foreign.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 26 September 1913, Page 3

Second Edition British and Foreign.

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[per press association.] ADVICE TO AFRICANS

Capetown, Sept. 25. Botha, at Wakesstrooin, said he did not believe in ruling the natives with the sjambok. The natives had no direct representation in Parliament, and as far as he was concerned they never would; therefore it behoved whites to treat them with justice, fairness, and honesty of purpose. He aunounced a forthcoming reduction of five hundred a year in each Minister's salary. The meeting condemned Hertzog's Young Boer attitude. AUSTRALIAN CRICKETERS. London,. Sept. 25. The Daily Citizen says the Australian cricketers in Canada have mysteriously disappeared. Several cables from the London newspapers in the past fortnight have failed to ascertain their whereabouts.

PAST DEEDS RECALLED. London, Sept. 25. Lord Salisbury, in a letter in reply to Mr Lloyd George, refers to Hansard to show that his father in a case of compulsory purchase in 1877 claimed compensation upon terms, which in view of certain precedents, the House of Commons in Committee considered excessive, while the Lords in committee, in view of other, precedents, considered justified. Moreover, when the Commons supported their own Commitee,' the late Lord Salisbury had advised the Lords to yield lest their action be open to misconstruction. ENTHUSIASM AT BELFAST, London, Sept. 25. A scene of enthusiasm occurred when Lord Londonderry and Sir Edward Carson entered the hall at Belfast,

Both speakers empliasised the Ulstermen's determination to defend their rights.

Lord Londonderry, who was presiding, was greeted with ringing cheers when he remarked; "We await the signal. We can to-day say to the Government, 'We are ready; you "can strike where you please.'' "

Sir Edward Carson, m a calm, unimpassioned speech, ridiculed the Radical attempts to convert what was the essence of Ulster's loyalty into treason. If the Government drove Ulster into resistance, if it split society from top to bottom, it would paralyse trade and have a disastrous eil'ect. He remarked that men whose solo aim ought to be government if tho Empire and its defence were already dividing into hostile camps. Sir Edward said he knew of no alternative to the establishment of a provisional Government. Surrender was out oi the question.

Lei them remember that when Irish unionism was accused of lighting against England there was a majority of 32 Englishmen in the Commons against the Bill, and it was only possible to govern and develop Ireland with Britain as arbiter between the two parties.

He added: "We may, perhaps we will, be coerced in the long run into submission, because they have an army and a navy. If England, with a majority of 32 against Home Rule, allows the army and navy to be used, we may be coerced; but in that event we will be governed as a conquered community and nothing else.

U.S., TARIFF BILL. Washington, Sept. 21. The Tariff Conference is unable to agree on the proposed tax on the trade in cotton. It was decided to refer the whole question to both Houses. Several conferences were held at White House, but were fruitless. The conference decided to favour a tariff rebate of o per centum on goods brought in American bottoms, those countries the treaties with which prohibit discrimination remaining unaffected.

Tlie conference defeated a retaliatory tariff provision, enabling the president to assess extra tariffs against countries discriminating 1 against the/Uuited States. The latter decision makes it unnecessary for the passing of any supplementary measures for continuing the existing trade relations. The Bill retains a clause giving the President authority to negotiate reciprocity measures. (Received This' Day, 11.30 a.m.)

WILL SOON BE BURIED. London, Sept. 2b. Pegoud, at Brooklands, before a large crowd. ,was strapped to a Bleriot monoplane, climbed three thousand feet, dived and turned the aeroplane over headlong, then sideways, and recovered and volplaned to earth. He twice repeated the performance, completely "looping the loop,'* gliding upside clown for seven hundred yards. There was intense excitement, and the crowd shouldered Pigoud around the enclosure. While the flying was in progress flame* broke out in the midst of hundreds of motor ear« belonging (<• the spectators, owing to the smashing of a petrol tank. The whole line v. Ms threatened, because the ears wove closely packed, but extinguishes confined the fire to four r.u.s,

"THE ALLIES." Servi:i ha- protested to the Towers against Bulgarian officers leading the Albanian insurrection. She requcr:s the Powers to require their wilhdrawal. Servia is coneentrafiug troops to retake Dibra. THE REBELS. Belfast', Sept. 25. Subscriptions total nearly a quarter of a million sterling. Lord Londonderry and Mr Liddell, a Belfast manufacturer, gave ten thousand apiece, and Mr Henry Musgrave seventeen thousand.

Mr Samuel McCaughey has cabled the treasury to ask him for any sum required. Sir Edward is on the verge of collapse, and the doctors have ordered'him to bed. If one of the heads of the great industrial undertakings, railways, collieries, or shipbuilders arc amongst the promoters of the fifty million scheme. "Berlin, Sept. 20. Two men were killed and twelve injured by an explosion in a dynamite factory at Pory, on the Rhine, caused by the carelessness of a woman in handling matches. The factory was completely wrecked.