GENERAL NEWS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 85, 9 April 1912, Page 3

GENERAL NEWS.

CONDENSED TELEGRAMS, . The annv.nl meeting of trades Council delegates was lielcl in Wellington on Saturday. Routine business Wfifc performed, 'flic principal subject "under consideration in the unity scheme. Tho attendance lit the Mormon conference at Awatmii is about one thousand, meetings being held for both Maoris mad Europeans. The Mormons are expending .£600,000 a year on education, of which sum £10.00') IB this year to be devoted towards a Maori agricultural college. General Godley visited the camps at Rangiora, Marshland, and Templeton on Sunday last. At Templeton GenOral Godley, the Hon. W. Russell, audi the Hon. H. G. Ell addressed the

men. The first encampment of the oth Regiment of Infantry (Wellington Battalion) is being held' at the Trentham ground. The total attendance "s 692.

The Hon. AV. 1). S. Macdonald opened the Waiohu-Otako railway section on Saturday last and stated that there was every prospect of the line being completed to Rakauroa before the winter. '.

J.he Ist Regiment went into camp a Templeton on Thursday last, the at tendance being 107. . The left half of the 13th Regimen concluded a week's camp at Rangi ora on Saturday, the 6th inst. Tin right half camped .at Greymouth am: broke up on Sunday.

About 500 men are attending the infantry camp at Orari, Timaru. Good weather prevails; , An inquest was held at Tauranga yesterday on the body" of Ales Hay. who broke his neck while well sinking at Mount Maunganui. A verdict of accidental death was record ed.

These was an extraordinary seen? in Napier •on Thursday night, when the, crowd took charge of a meeting held in Emerson Street, at which a woman who was alleged to have been in a 72 hours' sleep was to be awakened. The proceedings were very lively, the principals in the show having to take refuge in an adjacent shop. Buckets of water* wore thrown on the crowd, who replied with stones. The refugees were penned up by the crow-;, until after midnight and were fihajjv smuggled away in motors.

At a meeting of the Librsrists' con . ference held at Wellington yesterday it was moved by Mr C. Parr and car-' ncd that the ParUmentnry Librarv should be made cho mc \ eAls of a Na . tional Re^ ronCG Library. In oobaeetion with the Presbyteri %*r Assembly's protest against tin Hon. Te Rangihiroa and Dr. Pomare M.P.'s, giving political addresses at the Mormon conference, the Rev. Btidd, of Feilding, stated that in his opinion it was not the function of ;■ Minister of the Crown to act as bell man for any religious gathering. Ne-Ws has been received from Auckland that the Northern Timber Co.'s mills at Tatipiri were burned out or Sunday morning. The papers and safes wore saved. It is stated that the- insurance was £IOOO. About 70 men will be thrpwn. out of work.

The United Districts Fire Brigade held its first demonstration at Dannevirke commencing, on Saturday last, continuing yesterday. The weaklier was fine but windy. Two hundred firemen competed. S

The New Zealand Socialist Party's Easter conference was continued yestorday at Wellington. Resolutions were passed condemning militarism as* being used to buttress capitalism; by holding down the workers, and . recommending the workers' to perfect their industrial and political organisations so as to render ..war 'impossible. Sympathy was expressed with' the youths and young men who had resisted military service, and the N.Z. Defence Act Avas condemned. The '■ session of the Orange Grand Lodge, now being held at Pahuerstoa North, cabled to Belfast tendering greetings to the great Orange meeting being held there and promising financial and material -aid in their struggle against Home Rule, The he temei'e decree was also condemned as an interference with the civil law. It was resolved that a copy of this resolution be sent to each member of the Cabinet with a request that the publication of the elecree be prohibited in the Dominion.

At the session of the Orange Grand Lodge being held at Palmerston North C. N. Buddcr was re-elected' R.W.G.M. and William Hunter D.G.M. The Hon. J. A. Millar declarer, that he has no intention of leaving New Zealand, retiring from politics, or leaving Dunedin'. Thomas Henry Phillips was charged at the Wellington Police Court .yes terday that on March Bth at Auckland he assaulted William Montgomery so as to cause actual bodily harm. The charge arises out of an affair in a city hotel on' the evening of Marcl Sth, when Mr Montgomery was as saulted by a ri'ujnber of men who afterwards left in a motor car. The accused was remanded till Friday, bail being allowed. At the conference of the Spiritualists' Association held in Christchurcb Mr W. C. Nation was re-elected as president. Delegates were present from all parts of the Dominion, also from Queensland and Victoria. The Tagliche Rumlsehau alleges that on the outbreak of the Russo-Japan-ese war Britain bought and presented to Japan two cruisers built in Britain for South America.

The Canadian naval defence question is' to be treated on non-party lines. The Motherland is to be urged to give the Dominions naval autonomy. It is claimed that Canadian interests demand a "naval flag. The water in the MiesissiDpi flood covers ten miles wide by fifty long at Hickman, Kentucky. Peary believes Scott reached the South -Pole at the end of February. Damage to the extent of £IO.OOO was done by lire to the historic Gibbstown Castle at Meath.

Two men and a hoy were killed by a fall in a mine at Nant-y-moel while searching for coal. lAi hundred pounds' subscribed by West Australian timber workers is being distributed among the English strikers.

Strike riots occurred at Newbridge (Monmouthshire). Rotherham, Midlothian and West Fife.

It is alleged that railway companies are discriminating against union olficials in reducing their staffs.

At the Commercial Travellers' Conference at Launeeston it was decided to arrange a reciprocal agreement with New Zealnd rewarding entry to clubs. The Xew Zealand delegates said that following on the reduction of the number of hotels in New Zealand the accommodation had deteriorated. They thought it might improve as matters adjusted themselves.

The return for the past month for the Mount Morgan' mine is as follows: Gold ore treated 8233 tons. 3399 o'A gold; copper ore treated 22,263 tons, 613 tons blister copper, GOT tons copper. SOOO oz gold; tatol value, £78,317-.

The Duke of Argyll, Messrs Balfour and Law, 1157 Poors and Commoners

j and large numbers of others llftVo filgn- [ ed a petition regarding Scottish church union. The Portuguese authorities prohibited the Holy Week procession at Ohamurca. Five thousand Started the procession. The. Republicans threw bombs and flFfed revolvers from windows. Five were killed and thirty wounded. Forty thousand attended the Randwick races and 77,000 tin* Sydney Show. The Melbourne Political Labour Conference decided to help the Wanthaggi strikers with money and otherwise. A resolution was passed affirming the desirability of organising the women's vols. The Perth Sires' Produce Stakes resulted: Roserial 1, My Betty 2, Wuralis 3. Seven started. Won by half a length. Time, lmin 80 4-§s.er>. . A minority of the English miners favour continUlWg the strike, these being Yorkshire, Lancashire and Cheshire. The desire to resume is said not to result from exhaustion of funds. Tyneside merchants predict a permanent rise of Is (id to 2s per ton for household coal a.s a result of the minimum wage. Regular supplies of coal will be available in three days. •It is calculated that the miners have lost six millions in Avages and two millions in union funds and personal savings. The total loss to the community will he fifty < millions. A general strike is hinted at if the minimum wage is iixed below the schedule. Two children and three women were drowned at. Tangier. There is no landing stags, making the harbour a deathtrap. Bullion valued at £90,000 has been recovered from the sunken Oecaiitl.--

Tho appointment of governors for British Crown Colonies' n'cun outside the Colonial Office is creating disnun in the Service. There are 1,051,401 members of the German Navy League, which semis weekly communications, to sixteen hundred nowspapera. The first airship of the' Parsdval type, built in Germany for Japan, had a successful trial.

The King of Abyssinia and Empress Taitu are both in a critical condition. One million fifteen thousand people travelled on the Sydney trams during Easter—a record. To date'the attendance at the Sydney Show is 20,000 above the previous best.

The Federal officials state that they know nothing of the case of Mrs Elliott.

A cyclone struck Innesfail (Q.) on Sunday afternoon and 20.5 in. of rain fell. :

A lad at Kalgoorlie (W.A.) was electrocuted by coming in contact witli a live electric wire.

More wreckage believed to belong: to the Koombana has been recovered. It is. supposed to be coming from the bottom of the sea.

The Lord Mayor of Sydney; has sent a second thousand pounds In aid of the starving hi England.*' A conference of the Socialist Labour Party of Australia condemned the present "Federal and State Labour Parties and decided to run full ticket? of Socialists.! [Resolutions were passed condemning, military training and compulsory arbitartion. Laws, New Zealand,' was beaten in his heat in the chopping at the Sydney Show. The course over which Felton and Fogwell rowed will be rcmeasured. At Sydney Weiss and Willi am s,b aye commenced ; of 14,090 level. Scores: Williams 667, Weiss 341. Two Corsicans wei'e killed at Agaccio in a duel over the municipal elections. .'.."..

JeWels" valued at £IO,OOO were burgled at Neuilly (Franco). Colleman, an accomplice of the motor bandits, has been arrested at PaVis after a smart fight. To date the arrests number thirteen, of a gang supposed to number thirty. Special balloons at Cherbourg (France) raised a boat weighted and sunk to represent a submarine. Bavarian youths under seventeen have been forbidden to play football, as it is thought rough play may have a ■ coursening, effect .on them. The Kaiser arid his Chancellor are conferring over the Cabinet quarrel over naval expansion. The Kaiser lias sent his portrait tc the Staff College at Quetta (India) Ernest Richard Deuison, a railway porter, was drowned at Hamilton on Monday.

The Duke of Argyll declares that the outward forms of separation in the Scottish churches exist chiefly ic form.

At Rugby football England beat France by 19 points to 8. Herr Haussmann, South German Radical leader, declares that the German Navy League is merely Admiral von Tirpitz's instrument for the propagation of antagonism towards England.

It is semi-officially stated that, at the Turkish primary elections troops surrounded the polling booths and discriminated amongst voters. A piece of the thyroid gland of a healthy mother lias been successfully transferred to her idiot child by a Leipsic professor.

It is stated that Dr. Sun-Yat-Son will be the guest of General Li Yuan Hung .at rWuchang. Following are the chief points ,of the Home Rule Bill: Council of fortyeight, twelve nominated; assembly of

103 members ; Irish 'Customs and Excise Imperially controlled, for six years, after which Irish control, subject to perpetual Anglo-Irish free trade. William Neshit met with a fatal accident at Roslyn on Saturday night, being killed by a tram car. He appears to have lurched against one of the Maori Hill cable cars.

A galo wrecked Graham White's biplane while • White, with two passengers, was making a low flight. All escaped injury.

The minors at Cannock Chase and the whole of Scotland, with the exception of Fifeshire, have resumed. Jt is stated that the English transport workers will strike in the early summer.

Mr Bottar Law Was • tumultiioiisly welcomed to Belfast; He received an address signed by eighty thousand Ulster women.

It is reported froin Port Said that the subvontioned merchant cruiser Duca di Genoira captured a Greek steamer carrying contraband and is taking her to Tobruk. Mexican reports state that the Madero Government is likely to fall: The country is facing debts 'amounting to a thousand million dollars and Wa-iv,:) investors arc claiming foe loss due to the disturbed state of the country. Efforts are being made to saenro the intervention of the' United States, but the latter is reluctant because suspicions would bo engendered in Other Central American Republics which are already none too well disposed towards the United States,

'The Canadian revenue for the fiscal year increased by 18,000,000 dollars, the total revenue being 132,000,000 dollars. The country's total net debt is 320,000,000 dollars.

The Marchioness of Linlithgow lias been presented with twin sons. She is doing well. During the motor cycle trials across

Dartmoor a hull charged a competito) who was held u]) for twenty minutes. A fire at Ipswich* \vhich_comm44ced in a. bedding factOi'yj destroyed a holl!l and a jeweller's shop, the .total damage being between £IOO,OOO and

£200,000. The Bishops of Birmingham, Heroford, Lincoln and Weldon and other Liberal fhiii'Clililell, llavfl memorialised Mr. Asquith protesting against disestablishment.

The mansion in Wiltshire rented by Mr.,l\ H. Ulliftgworth, M.P., was destroyed by lire. All the occupants escaped, though the roof collapsed 20 minutes after they got clear. Mr Illingworth rescued from an upper window a retriever whose harking had aroused* and saved the household. A back staircase was the only means of exit. On Saturday laSi a mail train was derailed at Stockton on Lees, while travelling at a speed of fifty miles an hour. The permanent way was cut up for a quarter of a mile, before the train was brought up on the edge of an embankment. Nobody wag injured. The Monday School Union held a successful cOlil'el'OilcG tit Blfeflheim during Easter, the gathering representing 87 schools, 1.00 teachers and 10,000 scholars. A resolution was passed favouring co-oparation between Bible claHseH and Sunday Schools in tile interests elder sOlielarfi, .

The Tripoli correspondent of the London. Times states that peaceful activity iSj gradually gaining sway ir. Tripoli. Since the oasis Was cleared there has been no appreciable widening of the Italian boundaries'and nothing has been gained since'Gangarent was occupied on the 20th January. The Detroit-Pore Marquette railroad is irt the hands of receivers. Leavd td isSUc 1 news' bonds was refused. Mr Pierpont Morgan holds a lot of the stock. A series of earth tremors were experienced at Rotoriia on Sunday mornThe tremors lasted from 3.15 ti 3.48. There* was another tremor at 7 o'clock. The Mississippi floods show no signs of abatement. Twenty people are. known to have been drowned. Five thousand refugees from Hickman are being fed by charity and are living in tents as their homes have been wrecked. Army stores are being utilised. A hundred and fifty miles of country are affected. Austin Luder was found" dead its his house at Tauraliga, on Saturday afternoon, with a bullet wound in his forehead, and a rifle lying at his feet. Deceased, who had recently returnee from a trip to the Old Country, was depressed over business matters. A preference agreement of widle scope, conferring substantial advantages on Canada and the AVest Indies, has been drafted. Improved transport and cables are provided for. The South Canterbury farmers' Union has convened a meeting of branch chairmen and local members of Parliament to discuss several matters on which the union require legislative oi administrative action, including an experimental farm for the district, differential railway rates, etc. A range: of iron ore extending over seventy miles, with mineral of the highest class, has been discovered in the Fort Frances district (Canada). Government inspection is promised. The report presented to the annual conference of sawmill and timber workers, held in Wellington, stated that organisation and making of Dominion awards should be further considered. Federation, said the report, should alii be considered. A verdict th atdeath was due to hypostatic pneumonia was returned at the inquest on the body of William Maker, G 7, an old-age pensioner, who, on March 30th, fell .down steps in Com tenay Place, Heavy rain started in the Eketahuna district last night and continues. The rivers are in high flood and much low-lying land is submerged. It is probable that unless the rain soon stops the damage done will be serious. A vigorous campaign is being instituted in Wellington to obtain the £SOOO necessary to secure the City Council's donation of £IOOO to the National Art Gallery. The formal opening of Mr Baillie's collection of pictures will take place on April 24tb, up "to ( which time the National Gallery will liave first call,on the pictures. Mr Baillie was asked to exhibit the collection in Australia, but as he could not do so buyers are coming to Now Zealand bn behalf of Australian galleries. Buyers will also be present from rarious parts of New Zealand. The secretary of the Nelson Fruitgrowers' Association has received cable advice that part of a Nelson shipment of apples sold i.t Vancouver at eight to ten shillings. The growers 4 will receive only a moderate netj-eturn. The balance of the shipment will be sold in London.

At the Auckland Police Court Henry John Wells, Thomas Henry Lett and Robert Richardson were charged with assaulting Constable Mills at one o'clock this morning. It is alleged that Mills was kicked over the heart. He was much knocked about and was removed to the hospital. He was too ill to appear to-day and accused were remanded till April 17th. A resolution condemning military training was considered to-day by the annual conference of the New' Zealand Labour Party. The advisability of passing it will be considered later!

The Waiohine River (Wairarapa\ broke through the stop-banks atAliikouka last night. The main road to .Grey town is submerged two feet for miles. All stock were saved. All the rivers are running bank-to-bank. The water is now receding. The unity proposals were considered at to-day's sitting of the Labour Party Conference. Emil Anderson was washed overboard and drowned on Monday while gping in a cutter from Bluff to Stewart Island.

Thomas Doherty, 50, labourer, was killed in the Wyndham railway yard *»n Monday by a shunting engine.