Beyond the Dominion

King Country Chronicle, Volume IV, Issue 290, 31 August 1910, Page 3

Beyond the Dominion

EDISON'S KINETOPHGNE. London. The "Observer's" New York correspondent witnessed a demonstration of Edison's kinetophone. A man shown on the screen was seen throwing an iron ball to the floor. The crash was heard, and also perfect reproductions of other sounds, including the honk of a motor horn. NEW LAND TAXATION. London. The newspapers are flooded with complaints of the difficulty in understanding £he new land tax papers. According to these letters grave chaos is impending. The owner acres has to answer 1200 questions, while one grave owner is required to return the value of undeveloped minerals. Many remarkable anomalies have been discovered in the questions. A DANGEROUS SPORT. Paris. Legagneux, an aviator, fell at Havre, turning somersaults twice in the air during his fall. He was badly injured, and the machine was wrecked. According to French newspapers, Latham and Dubonnet are abandoning aeronautic?. London. An aeroplane fatality is reported from Holland, Van Masadyk, a Dutch aviator, having fallen at Arnhem and been killed. SEAMEN TO STRIKE. London. The Copenhagen correspondent of the "Times" report'? that the International Transport Workers' Federation has unanimously agreed to an international shipping strike because the owners refused to discuss the proposals of the European Seamen's Unions for the establishemnt of a Conciliation Board. The date and time of the strike are to be kept secret The decision of the Federation has occasioned the greatest surprise. It affects 135,000 sailors and firemen, including 70,000 British sailors and firemen. Many newspapers consider the Copenhagen report premature, and suggest that it has been furnished by interested parties. Later. The "Morning Post" states that the proposal of Mr Joseph Havelock Wilson, general secretary of the National Seamen's Union, to declare an international strike, was defeated for the present. The "Daily News" say 3 the report is untrue, and shipowners of the various ports declare themselves undisturbed because the men are divided, and Wilson's party is without funds. CRIPPEN IN ENGLAND. London. Crippen and Miss Le Neve returned co England in charge of the police by the liner Megantic. By a police ruse they disembarked at Liverpool almost unobserved. The prisoners reached London by train, and here the police failed to elude the crowds. There was an enormous crowd at Euston railway station, and as Crippen" and Miss Le Neve drove off in taxi-cabs for Bow street they were greeted with groans and boo-ing by the excited crowd. All along the route to Bow street crowds had gathered and made similar demonstrations. Crippen will be charged with the murder of his wife at Bow street. Miss Le Neve will be charged with being an accessory after the fact.