Beyond the Dominion

King Country Chronicle, Volume IV, Issue 262, 25 May 1910, Page 3

Beyond the Dominion

SOUTH AFRICA. Capetown. Lord Gladstone (Governor-General of South Africa), with the Premiers of Cape Colony (Mr Merriman), Natal (Mr Moor), Orange River Colony (Mr Fisher), and the Transvaal (Mr Botha), and many other politicians and citizens, strikingly farewelled Lord Selborne (late High Commissioner for South Africa) aboard the Armadale Castle, at Capetown on Thursday. The newspapers pay a tribute to Lord Selborne's unfailing impartiality, and declare that he has striven to obliterate racial prejudices and divisions. Informal conferences are proceeding at Capetown between various South African Ministers, and it is expected that Lord Gladstone will confer with the leaders also. There is a strong feeling that the Premiership question must be settled without delay. Mr Botha had a conference with Lord Gladstone, and will, it is understood, form the first Union Ministry. • STUDENTS' MAFIA. , Rome. A student at the Palermo Lyceum shot a professor for refusing to give him full marks at a quarterly examination, and then .committed suicide. The professor is unlikely to recover. The crime was traced to a criminal association of students, whose object was to intimidate the professors.

KING GEORGE TO THE FORCES. London. His Majesty King George, in a grateful message to the men of the navy and marines, says he felt that the blue-jackets manning the gun-carriage was the most fitting tribute that could have been paid to his beloved father. He highly appreciated the conduct and bearing of all ranks and ratings, and was much pleased at the appearance and steadiness of the troops. ■■•■

His Majesty has also expressed h'is appreciation of the work of the police, whose task, he says, was made easier by the reverent demeanour and orderly spirit of the enormous masses of the people who witnessed the funeral procession.

THROUGH THE AIR—CHANNEL CROSSED AGAIN. London. Count Jacques de Lesseps, a grandson of the engineer of the Suez Canal, has succeeded in crossing the Strait of Dover on a Bleriot monoplane. De Lesseps ascended at Calais to a height of 280 feet and circled about in order to feel his way. He then soared above a thick mist, and steered by the sun. He then skimmed down near Dover with perfect ease form a height of over 1000 feet, and descended gracefully at St. Margaret's Bay. The journey occupied thirty minutes. The weather was hazy, and Count de Lesseps only saw the coast on nearing Deal. The destroyer Escopette followed him, but only caught one glimpse of Count de Lesseps in crossing.