Beyond the Dominion

King Country Chronicle, Volume III, Issue 169, 1 July 1909, Page 4

Beyond the Dominion

CHOLERA IN RUSSIA. J St. Petersburg, June 28. Since the outbreak of cholera in St Petersburg this summer 802 cases have been reported to the authorities. Two hundred and forty cases have succumbed, while one hundred fresh cases are recorded daily. COLLIERY FLOODED. Lisbon, June 28. An underground river burst through the walls of a coal mine at Carbajo, Portugal, and flooded the mine. Rescue parties have recovered the bodies of fourteen miners, but 37 are still missing, and it is feared have been drowned. AN. EXPLORERS' FATE. London, June 28. Reuter's Pekin agency reports that number of Chinese attacked a Native surveyor in the Indian service, named Hazrah.and an interpreter named Sowerby, both belonging to a meteorological expedition under Lieutenant Clark, an American, near Lunan Chou, Nazrah was killed, but the other members of the expeditiion rescued Sowerby. LONDON LIQUOR DUTIES. London, June 28. A meeting of Liberal members of the House of Commons, representing London, today declared that the levying of a license duty on the basis of the annual value puts London licenses at a great disadvantage compared with those in other parts of tne Kingdom. The meeting expressed the belief that publicans preferred to pay 6d in the £ upon all liquor consumed. As the Bill stands, Eondon licenses contribute 30 per cent, of the yield of the whole Kingdom, though they represent only a tenth of the population.

FORESTALLING BEEF TRUST New York, June 28.

According to the New York Times, with a vew to forestalling the Chicago Beef Trusfc half the capital is being subscribed in America and half in England, to establish a company to run five steamers, commencing in October next to bring Argentine and foreign beef to New York and return with coal. The company intends later to erect a packig plant at Buenos Ayres.

AUSTRALIAN FLOODS. Sydney, June 29. The floods in the Riverina are still subsiding. A rabbiter named Marshall spent the whole night on a log amid the flood waters, his boat having been smashed. He was greatly exbaushed when rescued.

In the Tumut district many farms have been submerged, and the maize crop i are ruined. Seven hundred sheep were drowned in one lot near Cowra.

SIR JOSEPH WARD. Perth, June 28. Sir Joseph Ward was met on his arrival by the mail steamer at Freemantle today, en route for London, by a member of the Government. The Governor, Sir Gerald Strickland, entertained him and the numbers of the West Australian Ministry at luncheon at Government House. CANADIAN BISLEY TEAM. London, 'June 28. Canada's rifle team, consisting of 22 members, has arrived at Bisley. The men are considered the 22 best shots in Canada. GERMANYS' DREADNOUGHTS. Berlin, June 28, The new Dreadnoughts Nassau and Westfalen, each armed with twelve llin, twelve 6in, and sixteen 3 l-2in guns, will enter the German service during the coming autumn, and the third Dreadnought, the Rheinland, in the spring of 1910. IMPERIAL DEFENCE. London, June 28.

The Times incidentally strongly deprecates Lord Beresford's premature remarks regarding our preparedness and defence as an [mperial whole, considering his views are still under consideration by a sub-committee of defence.

The Daily News attacks Lord Charles Beresford and warmly supports Admiral Fisher, who, it claims, while enjoying the confidence of both Conservative and Liberal Governments, b rough the Navy to a condition never equalled before.

The Morning Post and Standard emphasise the importance of Lord Charles Beresford's speech. The Daily Mail sums up the results of the Press Conference as another milestone on the road to Imperial unity,

PRESS CONFERENCE. London, June 28. The Times describing the Press Conference says it was a memorable success. Commenting on Imperial defence it suggests that inasmuch as battleships must act in concentration while cruisers defend the Empire's communications, the a-sistar.ee of the Dominions, as far as it consists of ships, might take the form of cruisers of the best standard in interchangeable with the Motherland's. They would embody and express the organic unity of the Imperial Fleet much more effectively than a battiesnip could

ABDUL HAMIDS' FORTUNE. Constantinople, June 28. The German. Ban!-: of Constantinople holds five millions sterling of the exSultan Hamid's private "estate. The fallen Sultan has also large sums in A DEADLY TORPEDO. Paris, June 28. A torredu of tremendous power, inthe River S>dne. The torpedo, which costs : '-3'>'i'j sterling', is charged with li'i'd;; of dynamite, is directed from the parent ship or from shore by wireless waves, which, acting upon a contrivance which moves the rudder, enables the steersman to control the course of the missle from the time it is fired until its energy is expended. According to the Daily Chronicle, the tests proved wonderfully successful.