Beyond The Dominion

King Country Chronicle, Volume IV, Issue 249, 9 April 1910, Page 3

Beyond The Dominion

SUFFRAGETTES ACTIVE. London. After she had been concealed for thirty hours in the House of Commons, the police discovered a well-dressed suffragette hiding in a ventilator shaft of the House. The discovery was made in time to prevent a disturbance during the debate on Mr Asquith's resolution. TRANSVAAL ASSEMBLY. Capetown. Sir George Farrar, Leader of the Opposition in the Transvaal Assembly, at the conference of the Transvaal Progressive Federation, declared that Het Volk, the Orange Unie, and Afrikander Bond were now regarded as one party. However willing Mr Louis Botha, Premier of the Transvaal, may. have been to co-operate with the Progressives, his retrograde followers were too strong. Sir George Farrar advised the Progressives to reorganise under Dr Jameson. Their opponents were fighting among themselves for the Premiership. He also urged that South Africa should share the cost of the Imperial navy. THE PERICLES WRECK. London. The "Manchester Guardian" declares that the splendid conduct of all on board made the Pericles wreck more like a rough impromptu picnic than the terrible disaster which it might easily have been. It comments on tho presence of another unchartered rock in Australian waters similar to that which caused the Papanui wreck. Underwriters and merchants are anxiously awaiting full particulars regarding the cargo. FRENCH TARIFF. Paris. The new French tariff, which has been enforced, invests the Government with retaliatory powers in cases of undue discrimination. The general opinion is that Britainshas been treated as leniently as possible. The chief feature is a number of new classifications directed against Germany, but indirectly affecting Britain. The vexatious minuteness of the new classification will probably be more harmful than the higher duties. Thus steel wire, in addition to paying a duty according to weight and gauge, is required to pay according to its capacity for carrying electricity. British textiles have escaped comparatively lightly, but the increase on Sheffield goods totals £200,000 per annum. M. Klotz, the president of the Customs Commission, declares that the tariff puts "millions and millions of francs into the pockets of the French working classes." BRITAINS' IMMORTALS. London. Lord Coleridge (judge of the High Court of Justice) presided at a banquet —the 73rd anniversary of the birth of the late Algernon Charles Swinburne — promoted by the Poetry and Recital Society to bring together the descendants, or failing that the nearest family representatives, of the great poets of the past There were 300 guests, including the Duke of Norfolk, Mr Alfred Lyttelton, and descendants of Sir Philip Sidney, Sir John Suckling, the Earl of Rochester, Sir Walter Scott, John Milton, Edmund Spenser, John Dryden, Alexander Pope, and seven members of Shakespeare's family. The toast, "The Immortal Memory of British Poets," was drunk in silence. Rangiuia, the Maori singer, in native costume, gave some native songs and a war dance after the banquet. GERMAN NAVY LEAGUE. Berlin. The membership of the German Navy League totals 1,031,339. The funds increased during 1909 by £219,940, and now total £1,679,190.

SOUTH AUSTRALIAN ELECTIONS. Adelaide. Further returns assure the defeat of the Government by the Labour party. Only Wallaroo in the local option vote declared for closing a third of the hotels. Other districts, by big majorities, left things as they are. THE VICEROY'S TRAIN. Calcutta. Three Bengali youths have been arrested for loitering with concealed weapons in their possession, near the railway, when the. Viceroy's train was expected to pass. BANK BANDITS. New York. A gang of bandits entered the Victor Banking Company's offices at McKee Rocks, a village in Pennsylvania. They called upon the bank officials, five in number, including the manager, cashier, and three clerks, to put up their hands, and when resistance was attempted, shot all five. They then looted the bank and made their escape with five thousand dollars in cash. KING EDWARD'S HEALTH. London. The "Daily News' " Biarritz correspondent protests against the publication of optimistic statements regarding the King's health. The correspondent states that his Majesty was lately the victim of influenza but is now recovering. Other telegrams show that King Edward is taking exceptional care to avoid exposure.