Beyond the Dominion

King Country Chronicle, Volume III, Issue 197, 7 October 1909, Page 4

Beyond the Dominion

amkkica's s;-:a i f.WHi:. Nov.' <:.-:■:. '.Jd'.Lu- 2. President Tail, in furtherance of a promise to do his utmost to induce Congress to legislate ii< favour of the restoration of the mercantile marine, now proposes to as'; Congress to devote seven million dollars, the annual profit from the foreign mail service,to subsidising steamship lines to South America and the Far East.

Speaking at Seattle, President Taft declared that commercial progress would be greater in the Pacific than anywhere during the next half-century especially trade with China and Japan. He added that if America went to war today the merchant marine would lack sufficient tonnage in auxiliary unarmed ships, which were absolutely necessary for the proper working of the navy,and she would be compelled to purchase such vessels abroad.

UNITED STATES PRESIDENT. New York, October 2. President Taft was entering an automobile at Portland to participate in a military parade yesterday, when a man in the-crowd was arrested for trying desperately to reach him, ostensibly for the purpose of taking his photograph. The man, on being searched, was found in possesesion of a six chambered revolver and a quantity of ammunition.

THE SUFFRAGETTES. London, October 3. The Women's Social and Political Union has announced that writs have been issued in connection with the action for assault, brought by suffragist prisoners against Mr Herbert Gladstone, Home Secretary, and the Governor and medical officer of Winsongreen Gaol, for the forcible administration of food by means of the stomach pump to a suffragette hunger-striker.

COOK AND PEARY. New York, October 2. Commander Peary's Arctic ship Roosevelt met with an enthusiastic and popu lar welcome on arrival in New York. The Roosevelt is patdicipating in the celebrations of the centenary of the first us2 of steamers on the River Hudson by Robert Fulton, the celebrated American engineer.

The National Geographical Society, of which Dr. Cook is a member, has declined to accord him official recognition when lecturing at Washington tomorrow. New York, October 3. The National Geographical Society explains that the submission of Cook's and Peary's records should precede their official recognition.

BADEN-POWELL KNIGHTED. London, October 4. Lieu tenant-General Baden-Powell has been created a Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order in recognition of his success in organising the boy scout movement.

SOUTH AFRICAN COALITION. London, October 4. The "Times" Johannesburg correspondent indicates that the scheme of racial coalition supported by Mr Louis Botha will prove a failure. It is receiving, he states no support from the general body of either the African Bond or the Het Volk.

SIR ROBERT STOUT HONOURED. London, October 4. Sir Robert Stout has received the Honorary Doctorate of Law from the Manchester University.

IMPROVING THE TURBINE. New York, October 4. The New York "Times" announces that Rear-Admiral Melville, late engineer in chief of the United States Navy, Messrs A. McAlpine and George Wc3tinghouse have jointly invented a reduction gear which will enable marine turbnies to run at full speed while the propellers revolve at the proper rate to produce the greatest driving power, thus reducing the wastage of steam.

The invention enables steam to accomplish 15 per cent, more work than under previous conditions, and £4OO, 000 will be saved in the engine and boiler rooms of a single 40,000 ton vessel and 50Q tons of space will be freed for cargo accommodation. The invention will overcome the difficulty of correctly adjusting gear teeth by means of a steel flowing frame, on which a pinion is .mounted. This frame is sufficiently elastic to enable the pinion to adjust itself instantaneously to any changes of alignment.

IRISH NATIONALIST LEADERS. London, October 4. Owing to a difference between Mr Tim Healy and Mr John Redmond, a movement is afoot to expel the former from the Nationalist party. Twenty-four Irish Commoners refuse to join the expulsion movement, inasmuch as they approve of Mr Healy's opposition to the Government's Licensing proposals, in which Mr Redmond acquiesces for the purpose of bargaining on other questions.

FIGHTING CONSUMPTION. London, October 4. His Majesty the King is to open the Royal Edward Tuberculosis Institute at Belmont Park, Montreal, by pressing a button in Buckingham Palace. Electrical communication by telegraph and cable will throw open the doors, turn on the lights, and hoist a flag at the Institute.