British and Foreign.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 9 October 1913, Page 3

British and Foreign.

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MINIMUM WAGE

x London, October 8 ihe Miners' Fed oration Confe enee, representing six hundr< thousand, lias carriod a resolutk 13-• asking- for an amendment of tl i's Minimum Wage Act, to obvia j'. the tendency of the Act to redui le wages from the standard to tl minimum rates. The fedora tic u decided to levy a shilling a yea >- for three years, for the support < >c Ihe Daily Citizen newspaper d thus raising- ninety "thousan pounds. j AVIATOR'S MISHAP. a The aviator Hawker fell ahm is dred feet, at JJrooklalitis, throug t> a defect in his engine. He sin d tained serious injury, and is ui •r conscious. p (deceived This Day, 10.5 a.m.) Loudon, October 8. e Lls believed (hat MacDonal i' (who, at Liverpool, shot dead Pan , Gaze and .Mary Compton, anr wounded a youth named Roberta , is a religious maniac. All th - victims belonged to the jN'ev ;• Church of Humanity. Mis :• Croinpton was instructing other in its tenets. Mac Donald wa i armed with a revolver, a razor . and a bludgeon. He visited Rob , erts's lodgings and felled him oi . his answering (he door. Robert; ■ took re I ugc in a bedroom, am ■ Mac Donald fired but missed. Thei r Ik* tied. Later Mac Donald visited Gaze, who was recently married. He accompanied him to a sitting room, where he shot him in the temple: then he went tc Mary Cronipton's residence and shot her also, in the temple. MacDonald committed suicide, dying at Oompton's side. Roberts''? condition is not serious. MADRAGETTES. There has been a sudden revival of sulTragetie activity, after quietude, since Mrs I'ankhurst went to Paris. Two houses were set lire to at Bedford, where Lloyd George will open his land campaign on Saturday. Postcards have been sent out declaring that the suffragettes have arrived at Dundee, where the Hon. Mr Churchill will speak to-night. Telegraph wires have been cut at .Birmingham. Mrs Drummond was participating in a suffragette meeting at the Pavilion when she was rearrested. She is charged with conspiracy, and failure to keep her promise 10 desist from militancy. (deceived This Day, 10,25 a.m.) HAWKER'S MISHAP. London, October N. Hawker was attempting a 100miles non-stop flight-. Engine trouble caused a sideslip, and the machine was too low to recover its equilibrium. In the fall the engine was torn from its fastenings. 11 crashed through an unoccupied passenger seat, missing Hawker by a couple of feet. Hawker's backwas severely injured, but his condition is not dangerous. £10,000 MEMORY QT'TCKEXER. Gordon, an engraver, has identified the seals on the pearl necklace box as having been made from a die cut Ity him to Silverman's order, six months ago. Witness admitted (hat the oiler of £10,000 reward quickened his recollection of the transaction. 1) E STR OY E R D .UI AG ED. The battleship Thunderer seriously damaged the destroyer Jackal, in the North Sea. Several battleships kept the Jackal afloat, and hauled her stern first for fifty miles, to Dundee, where she was docked. The dispute in Dublin concerns only thirty thousand people directly, but trade is paralysed. The loss is amounting to ,£12,000 per day. AUSTRIAN .XAA'Y, Vienna, October 8. The navy estimates propose an extraordinary vote of six million sterling. Two super-dreadnoughts will be laid down at the beginning of 191-f and two others in 1015. There is much discussion as to Austria's relations with Germany, who is dissatisfied at Austria's changeable Balkan policy, particularly in regard to Albania. Austria is jealous of Germany gaining- new markets, Avhile Austria has estranged her best customers. THE REBEL NORTH. Ottawa, October 8. Much anti-Home Rule feeling is stirred up by a rumour that the Government intends to proceed against those aiding with money and recruits the Ulster campaign. It is pointed out that Home Rule sympathisers hitherto have been given a free hand, and Messrs O'Connor and Redmond were allowed to collect money on behalf of Home .Rulers, while Orangemen were disallowed. The Government is receiving many indignant letters. ~ THE~ HO USE ADJOURNS. Washington, October 8. Interest in the world's series of baseball nitches is so keen that Democrats flippantly questioned the Chairman of the House of Representatives as to the results of the Philadelphia-New York contests. The chairman replied that the question was unparliamentary, but the Representative, Mr Mann persisted in declaring that they had better adjourn in order to learn the progress of the game. After several announcements of State the score was shouted across the floor of the House, and unable ,to secure a quorum the House adjourned. i