News in a Nutshell

Maoriland Worker, Volume 2, Issue 31, 6 October 1911, Page 12

News in a Nutshell

Baron Roenne claims to haA r e invented an "invisible airship." . w * * Bogroff, slayer of Stolypin, Russian Premier, has been hanged. •sc- * * ■ Serious earthquakes in Ecuador. Buildings destroyed. * » « Another . Victorian railway accident. Passenger carriage rolls 30 feet doAvn embankment. Sixteen injured. French battleship Liberte blown up. Tierce hundred and fifty lives lost in. catastrophe. Other Avarships injured. Ji * * Anti-Home Rule demonstrations in Belfast; 100,000 march in procession. * * * Mount Lyell (Tasmania) miners strike for decent conditions; 2000 men idle. * * « Anti-Italian feeling being manifested in. Turkey. Italians leaving and Avarships hurrying to the scene. * * * General strike in Spain spreading. The Moroccan Avar is the principal *ause of unrest. * * * ■ * Ten Laborites returned upopposed to Westralian Assembly. Labor is contesting CA-ery seat. * * w Tho friendly societies are arranging demonstrations throughout the United Kingdom in. protest against the Insurance Bill of Lloyd-George. At the Woodville District High School certain lessons arc to be illustrated by means of the cinematograph. * * * The Princess Louise's book has been published in English, French, German, Russian, Italian, Dutch, and Flemish, iand the demand is phenomenal, Italy alone being responsible for 10,000 orders. *- # # In six months the Acting-Judge of the North Island Native Land Court lias travelled 600 miles by road, rail, fund sea on court business. ■ * """ * A witness, 26 years of age, at the sitting of the Palmerston North Supreme Court on Tuesday informed his Honour that he had never been to school in his life and never earned any money. His father made all the money for him, and yet witness assured his Honour that he held a mortgage of £1500 on one property. ".'.'.* * * "The damage now done by Etna's lava flood is estimated at £1,000,000. '■•"_. * * '/■ At a conference of the Melbourne Setter carriers it Avas resolved to register under the Arbitration Act. * IE * Victoria is attempting to open up a tobacco-groAving industry from which the profits, it is estimated, will be between £20 and £75 per acre a■■ * * The attendance at the Essen don — Carlton football match Avas 40,669, and the receipts totalled £1307. •& ' * * Even Bosnia-Herzegovina has it? liabor paper. The "Glas Slobodte" C 'Voice of Liberty) appears twice a week, and has a circulation of 4000. Only a small beginning, but so avus (tho mustard seed.' * * * "Instructions have been issued in torder to prevent a repetition of any complaints against excessive drill," was a statement made by Mr. Frazer, speaking for the Minister of Defence in the Federal House of Representatives lately. Mr. Deakin had inquired " about the case of those lads Avho were said to have fainted under the strain of continuous three hours' drilling on the parade ground. * * * "While conveying the aerial mail to (Windsor the inlet valve of Mr Hamel's engine broke when at a height of 1500 feet. Flames issued from the carburetter and fIeAV around the aviator. Fortunately there Avas no leakage of petirol, and the aviator safely descended. During the voyage of the Moaua from Wellington to Sydney, jewellery valued at £1.00 was stolen from the luggage of a saloon passenger named Dunmoro. *- * s: Mr. "Helps has been elected Mayor of b-aii h ran cisco. * * * A thousand persons have the handling, of the Panama Pacific Exposition ttu'nds of tAA-o and a-half million pounds. Mrs. Patterson, wife of a wealthy ■broker of Chicago, shot and killed her ib.usba-.nd as a result of a dispute regarding a divorce. * * * The bush fires destroA-ed immense areas of grass in the CharleviH(Queensland) district. Over 20,000 $heep avo re burned. * -» * It_ is said that the Czar of Russia carries lite policies amounting to £1,800,000, AA-'hile the Kaiser is insured for £1,000,000, and King George V. is covered to almost the same extent as the Kaiser. * a * "Owing to the failure of the rice crops in'Sinn), famine is threatening-. Prices haA'e doubled, and coolie disturbances <aro feared.- ---» * * .$ Wo arc told that, owing to improved conditions, tailors iioav live longer than they used to. The survival" of the titter. . * * * Paris is threatened with a rise in the price of horseflesh, Avhich has hitherto .been 50 per cent, cheaper than beef. Mohammedan Albanians are in revolt, and have captured the garrison at Kamaikan.