Beyond the Dominion

King Country Chronicle, Volume IV, Issue 233, 12 February 1910, Page 3

Beyond the Dominion

VANCOUVER MAILS

Melbourne. Provisionally to calling tenders for the new service between Australia and Canada, the Postmaster-General has extended the existing contract for another year from July 31st next. Tenders for the proposed new service will be along the present route for three or five years, the contractor to be left to specify any other route, and declaring what the extra or reduced subsidy .would be.

RUSSIA AND GERMANY. St. Petersburg. At a special session of the Octobrist Club in. St. Petersburg hostile references to Germany were cheered by, the entire influential assembly which advocated the closest Anglo-Russian friendship. London.

The "Times" St. Petersburg correspondent mentions "that there arc prospects of a reconciliation between Austria and Russia on the basis of a declaration of non-intervention in the Balkans and adherence to the statusquo. THE FRENCH NAVY. Paris. The French Cabinet has approved of the Navy Bill, providing for a battle fleet for home waters, including 28 battleships, 10 cruisers, and 25 destroyers. The submarine defence fleet comprises 94 submarines and four minelaying vessels. The yards will shortly commence six battleship* which will be completed by 1915. The age of battleships for active service is fixed at 25 years, cruisers 20 years, and destroyers 17 years.

DEATHS FROM COLD. New York. Intense cold, accompanied by a gale, prevails in New York. Scores of sufferers have been received in the hospitals, owing to exhaustion and frostbite. Eight deaths occurred yesterday from cold and exposure.

KAISERS' DIGNITY. Berlin. The Kaiser has sentenced the Crown Prince to 48 hours' detention in the palace .at Munich for his thoughtlessness in neglecting to notify the management of a theatre to reserve the Royal box. «?j As a result of this oversight, when the Prince's party arrived every box was occupied. The Kaiser considered that the dignity of the Hohenzollerns had been compromised.

FLOODS IN ENGLAND. London. Continuous rains which have fallen in the northern counties have caused considerable damage.

At West Wylam, Tyneside, a landslide of 500 tons demolished three houses.

Three women who were within the ruined houses were killed outright, while nine were injured. The outlook for farmers in North Yorkshire is serious, and miles of land in the Derwent Valley are inundated.

LAUNCH OF THE PARRAMATTA. London. The Australian river destroyer Parramatta has been safely launched on the Clyde. SOMALILAND. London. The "Times" Calcutta correspondent reports that a disquieting impression exists that the consequences of the hasty withdrawal of advanced posts in Somaliland will be disatsrous to friendly tribes, who relied on British protection, and that they are now suffering the Mullah's reprisals. The Mullah has pillaged and killed many Somali Britishers, and has looted a thousand camels.