British and Foreign.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 29 November 1913, Page 3

British and Foreign.

ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH—COPYRIGHT. [PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.] INDIANS li\ SOUTH AFRICA (Received This Day, 8.30 a.m.) London, Nov. 28. Router's correspondent at Delhi says that Lord Ilardinge's speech has eased the tension, and the na. live press is more conciliatory. Many meetings have expressed gratitude at Lord Ilardinge's outspokenness. The Times of India declares that owing to General Botha's evasions, it does not trust his affirmations. The Bombay Chronicle says that General Botha's speech is inspited by a tone of lofty superiority almost amounting to contempt for the Indian claims. The Bombay Gazette says that Lord Hardinge' speech is not calculated to diminish the difficulty, and may obscure Indian grievances in a controversy involving greater issues. Natal, Nov. 28. An Indian Association cable alleges that the position is intensely serious. The military and police are using arms to force the strikers to resume work. Four Indians were killed at: Blackburne and sixty-two injured, twelve ser- [ iously. The casualties would probably have been more, but the South African Government refused facilities for investigation. It trusts the Imperial and Indian Government will immediately intervene. The Association also reports that thirteen leaders have been arrested AVIATOR'S FAILFEE.• Paris, Nov. 28. Daucourt's flight to Cairo, started on the Bth inst., was ended by the fall and distinction of his aeroplane in the Taurus moun-

loins in Asia Minor. Tlio aviator was unhurt. FERDINAND AND THE ACTRESSES. Vienna, 2s ov. 2S. The newspapers arc irritated af Le Matin's publication of the alleged secret agreement between Bulgaria and Servia against Aus(ria prior to the war. The newspapers savagely criticised King Eudinand, and demand his dopal ture from Vienna. They abuse him for betraying Austria's confidence and then coming to Vienna to exchange sallies with actresses behind the scenes when his country had lost one hundred thousand men, and fifty thousand are going round on crutches. The Emperor Eranz -Josef gave audience to King Eerdinand. A DARING THEFT.

Amsterdam, Nov. 28. I'iuheiro, a diamond broker, was travelling by tram to Vienna, when a stranger entered the carriage, knocked him senseless, and stole £12,500 worth of diamonds (Received This Day, 9.15 a.m.) 111 ON W 011 KERS WAGES REDUCED. London, Nov. 28. The wages in the manufactured iron and steel trades in the north of England have been reduced by sixpence a ton for puddling, and five per cent, in other departments of the mills THE ULSTER Ql ESTION. .L'he Unionist i;jwspapers view very gravely the Hon. Mr H. It. Asquith's full-steam-ahead speech. Mr Bonar Law, at Dublin today, insisted that the Unionists were opposed as completely as ever to the whole idea of any separation. The Lnited Kingdom demanded a general election. _ri he Manchester Guardian advises the Government not to let the last hours riin out before they have made up their minds as to the lines whereon their suggestion regarding Ulster may proceed. The Liberals are unprepared to go the full length of assorting the nation's authority, unless they are perfectly sure that all resources of statesmanship have been exhausted.

VICTO RIA'R GOVERNOR. The Westminster Gazette congratulates the Hon. Arthur Stanley 011 his accession lo the Governorship of Victoria. In such an important and dignified office lie will ave opportunities in democratic Victoria of filling out a career which began with such promise. A DEATH SENTENCE. Constantinople, Nov. 28. The court martial returned a sentence of death on Ivavalky, which Mustapha Pasha confirmed. It is believed that the Porte refuses the Russian Counsel's demand for release on the ground that he also committed non-politi-eal murders. Aynji Bey's appoiutment as Vali of Ad an a has been interrupted forestalling his demand and dismissal. "GOD PRESERVE BULGARIA." Vienna, Nov. 28. • ( King- Ferdinand has left for Sofia. A high Bulgarian personage declared that the Bulgarian Government has forced Ferdinand to sign a secret Serbo-Bulgarian treaty. Ferdinand hesitated for a long time. When he signed he exclaimed, "God preserve Bulgaria from the consequences." The personage lidded that all misunderstandings between King Ferdinand and the Emperor Franz Josef aroused by the publication of the treaty are now cleared up.

ROWING London, Nov. 28. \ R Burdekin, a Sydneyitc, is rowing in the Oxford trial. A. C. 8011, Geelong, and 11. -Gould, of Christchurch, are rowing in the Cambridge trials