BEYOND THE DOMINION.

King Country Chronicle, Volume III, Issue 138, 11 March 1909, Page 5

BEYOND THE DOMINION.

j British Government Tenders When heckled in the House of Commons concerning the use of Norwegian granite for the docks at the new Rosyth naval base instead of Irish or Scottish Mr John Burns, President of the Local Government Board, refused to grant the Admiralty £30,000, the difference between the cost of Scandinavian and British, for the purpose of finding work for the unemployed. The Express reports that Mr Herbert Gladstone, Home Secretary, has ordered from French and Belgian firms many thosuands of pounds' worth of mailbag canvas. The difference between the British and foreign tenders wai a halfpenny a yard. Army tyeat Contracts The War office is inviting tenders, returnable on June 14th, for 666,6801b of canned meats, deilvery to be made in September or October. 1 Texas Lynching Tragedy A crowd at Rockwall, Texas, burned a negro at the stake on Sunday for attempting to assault a white woman. Another negro was shot dea', j Indian Unrest The London Daily Mail states that j owing to the modification of the In- j dian Councils Bill by the House of I,ords, and the non-release of deported | Hindus, the activity of anarchists, J particularly in Bengal, is increasing, j Elaborate precautions arc being taken j for the safety of high Indian officials, i and hundreds' of police arc in the camp of the Viceroy the Earl of Minto, who is now in Assam.

Progressive Japan Arm«lronn, Whitworth and Co., of Newcastle, and Vickers, Son and Maxim. of Barrow, have almost completed the erection of steel works for gttn forging. The Japanese Government intend purchasing the works, the Japanese Admiralty managing them, assisted by English experts. Japan has ordered from Armstrong, Whitworth and Co., a large number of gun mountings.

Britain's Defence Scheme A discursive debate on the Army Estimates took place in the House of Commons last evening. Mr Haldane Secretary for War, in replying to several Labour members, declared that he Alliance Assurance Company was as fully entitled to employ in clerks not belonging to the territorial Army as to reject trade unionists or non abstainers Recruiting had been so satisfactory, he added, that there was now no need for the other employers to foil »w the Alliance Company's example. Later Mr Haldane described the amendment of Dr V. H. Rutherford, member for the Brentford division of Middlesex, to reduce the regulars by 10,000, which several Ministeralists supported. as a proposal calculated to throw the whole military arrangements into a state of chaos. In reply to Mr George Wyndham ex Chief Secretary for Ireland, M Haldane admitted that the War Office wa3 now ready with vital statistics and a plan in the event of conscription being decided upon.