Beyond the Dominion

King Country Chronicle, Volume III, Issue 168, 28 June 1909, Page 4

Beyond the Dominion

LONDON BEGGARS. London, June 23. The chairman of the London Mendicity Society, an institution designed to assist the deserving poor and to inquire into cases of fraud upon the charitably inclined, states that probably £IOO,OOO is given away annually to street beggars in London. CZAR AND KAISER. London, June 23. The Kuiser, in a speech at Cuxhaven after his return frorrMiis visit to the Czar,declared: "The Czar and I agreed that our meeting must be regarded as vigorously strengthening the cause of peace. GERMAN BOY SCOUTS. / London, June 23. A party of German boy scouts is returning the visit of English boy scouts who recently visited Germany. The German lads are touring Britain under the guidance of the boy scouts.

RUSSIAN PARLIAMENTARIANS. N . London, June 23. The delegtaion of members of the Council of Empire and of the Douma, sent to Britain to cultivate the good relations between the two nations, was entertained to luncheon at the House oc Commons today. Mr*Asquith cordially welcomed the delegation. FROZEN MEAT TRADE. Brisbane, June 24. A meeting of freezers and others interested in the frozen meat trade discussed the causes of deterioration in meat prior to arrival in England. It was decided that present methods of perparing for export are unsatisfactory, and a committee was appointed to inquire and report. COLLIERY DISASTER. New York, June 24. An explosion in the Wehrum colliery, Pennsylvania, entombed €5 miners. Twenty-foudr, mostly Poles and Hungarians, were killed outright. A HOLIDAY TRAGEDY. London, June 24. While a party of nine tourists from London and America were crossing the Lower Lake at Killarney a sudden squall struck their boat, capsizing it. All were drowned.

HEAT WAVE IN AMERICA. New York, June 24

New York is sweltering under a heat wave, and the people are, wherever possible, living and sleeping out of doors. The thermometer today touched 90 in the shade, and many deaths oc curred from sunstroke and heat apoplexy. Twenty thousand of the poor, driven from the slums by the intense heat, are nightly sleeping out in the open on the beach at Coney Island.

SEEING BY TELEPHONE. Copenhagen, June 24. Experts speak well of the invention of the Brothers Andersen, of Copenhagen, for the transmission of light and colour over a telephone wire. By the use of the system a telephonist is visible to the person with whom he is speaking at the other end of the wire, and is able to show anything he likes across the wires. GERMANY'S AIR FLEET. Berlin, June 24 Several Wright aeroplanes are now being built for the use of the German army.' AUSTRALIAN WEATHER. Sydney June 25. * Heavy rains have fallen in the Riverina and the rivers are in high flood. Large areas of low-lying lands have I been submerged. A portion of Albury is flooded, and the flood waters ]-.&•:■.- isolated Tumberumba, bridg-s ;..-.:: culverts having been wash-.; u :.;.. Melbourne. 'j'c:.t -~j. ■ The Murray river at V.'o.b nita is r:'-:- , ing rapidly, and the iowi.:- parts of the I town are flooded. Many places along the river report floods. I