Beyond the Dominion

King Country Chronicle, Volume III, Issue 195, 30 September 1909, Page 3

Beyond the Dominion

DR. COOKS' RECEPTION. London, September 26. Rear-Admiral Schley presided at a banquet tendered to Dr Cook, in New York, at which 1200 were present. The "Morning Leader's" New York correspondent states that Dr Cook has concluded arrangements for a lecture tour, which will bring him in a minimum guaranteed return of £50,000 sterling. Dr Cook started life as a milkman. New York, September 27. Mr. Whitney, an American millionaire, who went on a sporting expedition to Etah and returned aboard the Arctic steamer Roosevelt with the Peary expedition, says that Peary would not allow any of Dr. Cook's belongings to be put aboard the Roosevelt for transit to New York. "I was therefore forced," he says, "to leave Dr. Cook's box and articles in a cache at Etah."

New York, September 27. Commander Peary justifies his refusal to allow what he calls "Cook's stuff" aboard the Roosevelt, stating that he was aware of Dr Cook's intention to claim the Pole, and was determined not to aid the project. Mr Whitney states that Dr Cook knew that the relief ship was coming North, but owing to strained relations with Peary preferred not to wait but to go on to the Danish Settlements. New York, September 27. Professor McMillan, of Peary's expedition, states that he found a huge rock split open by frost, bearing the perfect imprint of a great tropical fern. The petrified stump of a tree 18 in. in diameter and the fossil remains of tropical animals were found near Black Cape, in latitude 81 degrees N. Fine coal seams were located. MR. CHAMBERLAIN'S SEAT. London, September 26. Mr. Joseph Chamberlain will stand for West Birmingham at the next general election. The Liberals have arranged that he will not be opposed, as a mark of sympathy with him in his illness. GREAT IRRIGATION SCHEME. New York, September 26. President Taft yesterday opened the Gunniston tunnel at Montrose Colorado, which was cut for six miles through Mount Gunniston in order to irrigate the Uncompasore Valley.

■ The tunnel will make 150,000 acres 'of land, hitherto useless owing to lack jof water, available for fruit culture. It was built at a cost of 4,000,000 dollars. ! A DEADLY EPIDEMIC. j Melbourne, September 27. « An epidemic of influenza and whooping ' cough swept the eastern coast of I Papua. Fully 500 natives die I. The I authorities did all in their power to combat the outbreak. | GERMANY'S DREADNOUGHTS. Berlin, September 27 The Heligoland, the first of the Gerj man super-Dreadnoughts which are to j be from 19,500 to 20,500 tons, with ' a dozen 12-inch guns and a crew of j 1000 has been lunched at Kiel,. I The second super-Dreadnought" is to ibs launched at VVilhelmshaven next j Thursday. The cost and details of construction j arse a secret. The next batch of Dreadnoughts is to be proviedd with lGJinch guns. A contributed article in the North German Gazette says that Germany's watchword is: "If we cannot have the most we must have the best ships."

ENGLAND'S POSTAL SYSTEM. London, September 27. Mr Henniker Heaton, in a letter to the "Times," commenting on the oversea dominions' example to the Motherland in the cheaper conveyance of newspapers and magazines,and the fact that New Zealand is the only country in the world to enjoy universal penny postage remarks: "We want an Imperial as well as a parochial post office in England."

WOOL TROUBLES. Sydney, September 28. Trouble has recurred in the wool trade, buyers objecting to some of the selling conditions. The weekly sales fixed for yesterday were postponed, and negotiations are proceeding to submit the dispute to arbitration.

WARATAH STILL MISSING. Adelaide, September 28. Three steamers have arrived here from the Cape during the last few days, all having failed to find any trace of the Waratah, though they deviated from their courses in the search.

The future of Auckland as a port was brought before the Council of the northern Chamber of Commerce by a letter from Mr S. Vaile, who said that Auckland as a port was not progressing, while Wellington was. Auckland would continue to go back unless the Government granted the district a fair share of inland transit facilities,and opened up for settlement the Crown and Native lands. The oversea shipping was fast leaving Auckland port, or at best, could be said to have been but stationary, for the last five years. It should be noted that the ships visiting Auckland belonged to an inferior class to those visiting Wellington, averaging at Auckland 1924 tons, with forty three of a crew, as against an average of 2575 tons, and sixty three of a crew at Wellington. He suggested that all this might be altered if Auckland had its proper transit facilities, and had the locked up Crown and NTative la~ds in the district opened up. For Chronic Chest Complaints, Woods' Great Peppermint Cure, Is Gd and 2s 6d.