Beyond the Dominion

King Country Chronicle, Volume IV, Issue 283, 6 August 1910, Page 3

Beyond the Dominion

HUNDRED MILLION LOAN. London. Committees of the House of Commons and of the House of Lords have been formed to support the Maritime Defence League's movement for the raising of a loan of a hundred millions sterling for naval and land defence's. TEXAN RACE RIOTS. New York. Several whites have been arrested in connection with the rioting in Anderson County, Texas. The authorities alleged that the attacks on the blacks were wholly unjustified, and that innocent negroes were killed, many being mere boys. PEER AND TAXES. London. The Earl of Sandwich states that he has spent £IOO,OOO upon his Huntingdonshire estate without obtaining any profit from that expenditure. He declares that the additional taxation imposed by the Budget will probably compel him to leave the country. TEMPERANCE ASSOCIATION. London. The Royal Army Temperance Association states that 42 per cent, of the white soldiers of India have taken the pledge. BUILDING SOCIETY'S FAILURE. London. The Hearts of Oak Building Society, which has failed, admits that its debit balance totals £157,000. A committee of inquiry is to be sat up to inquire into the affairs of the society ana the reasons for its failure. A LUCKY FIND. Paris. A navvy at Fonteinay-sous-Bois, unearthed three vases containing gold pieces, valued at £BOOO sterling. It is supposed they were hidden during the Franco-German war. EMPIRE CUP. London. The "Daily Mail - ' confirms the winning Australian scores in the Empire Cup match. The fine shooting of the Australians was, say i the "Mail," the outstanding feature cf the- match. The New South Wales record of four places in the first seven was a truly wonderful performance. CANADA'S STRIKE. T)ttawa. The Government's intervention has ended the Grand Trunk strike. The company restores the men not guilty of violence to their positions, and standardised wages come into operation in January, 1911. This is a compromise between the men's demand for an immediate raising to the Canadian Pacific level and the company's standardised offer for 1913.

During the year ended March 31st last there were 4131 applications for State advances to settlers, invulving' £1,539,150. Of these 2745, involving £1,095,120, were granted.

A witness in a case in the Sydney Supreme Court disclosed his earnings as a sheepshearer and shearers' cook. At shearing he earned from £4 to £9 a week. His experience had enabled him to shear from 130 to 1(30 sheep in a day of eight or nine hour?, but as a shearers' cook he had made up to £l2 a week clear, after paying one assistant. £4 a week. He liked cooking better than shearing, and fur that reason first undertook it.

The prediction made about three months ago that price of beef would be ruling exceptionally high at this time of the year has been more than fulfilled, says the Otago Daily "Times." At present beef is making as high as ;'.3s per 1001b. The shortage of winter fodder has in a large measure been productive of this condition of affairs, luit the position has been accentuated by the high prices that wei'e ruling on the London market up to a few weeks ago. Prospects there led to an exceptionally brisk business springing up between New Zealand owners and the London buyers, and the large consignments cf frozen bee!, shipped Home in fulfilment of the contracts entered into have had the effect of depleting the supply for local consumption. Oil the Taieri Plain at the present time, for instance, buyers state that there is not a single line of fat cattle to be had. Then, of course, the turnip blight Iras proved a most disturbing factor. Incidentally, buyers on the London market have not reaped the profits that were anticipated. New Zealand sellers obtained contracts there at most satisfactory prices, but the Home market has dropped, and those operating there must have experienced j heavy losses. I