Beyond The Dominion

King Country Chronicle, Volume IV, Issue 251, 16 April 1910, Page 3

Beyond The Dominion

FOR THE BRITISH MUSEUIW. - London. Ex-President Roosevelt is presenting the British Museum with a valuable collection of smaller Arrican animals. COUNTESS OF RANFURLY. Sydney. Details of the wreck of the schooner Countess of Ranfurly show that she struck a reef, 200 miles from the Isle of Pines, during thick weather, and became a complete wreck. The crew took to the boats, and the captain and a number of hands in a whale boat reached Noumea after being afloat for five days. They suffered many privations. SCULLING CHAMPIONSHIP. Capetown. Great interest is being manifested in South Africa in the sculling championship on the Zambesi on August 18th. There is some betting, odds of seven to four being laid on Arnst. Excursions are being advertised from Capetown to the Zambesi, where a city of grass huts is springing up for the accommodation of the expected crowds of visitors. SMALL POX IN SYDNEY. Sydney. A man reported to be an Otway passenger has been admitted to the Sydney Hospital suffering from a suspicious disease. The doctor declared that it was not smallpox, but strict precautions are being taken pending further diagnosis. This is the first ca3e in Australia arising from the Otway outbreak, outside the quarantine jareas, and its danger to an unvaccinated community such as Sydney, is apparent. -IMPERIAL UNITY. London. Sir Gilbert Parker read a paper at the Royal Colonial Institute on the new Empire. He declared that Parliamentary federation seems further off than in the days of those great dreamers —Sir James Service and Jan Hofmeyer. Time has shown that Imperial union on the lines of an Imperial Parliament has too great difficulties and too few advantages to permit of the fulfilment of the great constitutional dream, but he thought the. formula for some sort of union would yet be found. Australia, firmly supported by New Zealand, Cape Colony and Natal had unostentatiously laid the foundation of a real Imperial Navy. EXTENSIVE EMIGRATION. London. Nine thousand five hundred emigrants sailed from the Clyde in three weeks. The tradesmen mostly went to the United States of America and the agriculturists mostly to Canada. The Salvationists sent 750 Londoners to Canada in a fortnight with £30,000, some taking £IOOO and £2OOO apiece. By the Osterley Grange twenty respectable Kentish youths are being sent to and Sydney. FRENCH STRIKE. Paris. The employees of several factories and a number of tramwaymen have struck at Marseilles in sympathy with the re*ervists, and traffic was suspended all Wednesday morning. A few trams ran in the afternoon under police protection. The strike committee states that 18,000 men are out, including the stokers of three liners. The dockers and 6000 carters at Marseilles have decided on a 24-hours' strike in sympathy with the remaining reservists. Several riots occurred in the streets during the night, and revolvers were fired. The strikers increased to 20,000.