NEWS OF THE WORLD

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 336, 24 June 1911, Page 10

NEWS OF THE WORLD

CANADIAN MINISTER'S REBUKE London, June 9. Writing to the Morning Post, Mr. \V. S. Fielding, Canadian Minister of Finance, deplores the disposition in certain quarters to drag Canadian affairs into party politics. Leading public men, he declares, acting upon insufficient information, assail the responsible governing party in Canada, and such tactics, he says, can hardly tend to promote that mutual confidence which is so essential to Imperial unity. THREE HUNDRED SLAIN, Hongkong, June 9. Serious anti-dynastic outbreaks aro reported from the southern Chinese provinces. In one battle 300 rebels were slain by loyal troops. Desultory fighting is taking place in many centres.

PATH'S PIANIST London, Jun* ft. A remarkable scene was witnessed last night at a benefit concert to Mr. Gans, Mine. Pntti's old pianist. Patti herself contributed to the programme, ami as usual charmed the audience with her singing. The famous soprano was ovenviielmed with encores, ana in response to an imperative demand for the repetition of her last number, she gave a beautiful rendering of "Home, Sweel, Home." ■\Vhen she had finished, .Mine. Tctrazzini, who was among the audience, rushed on to the stage and warmlv embraced Patti, while the house rocked with enthusiasm. [Mine. Patti, Hi,, greatest operatic prima- donna the world has ever seen, has of late years been heard onlv once a year, at the annual concert she'luu .riven at the Albert Hall. The great suver was born at Madrid in im. and was taken to America when only a few years "Id. In that country she appeared' as u prodigy vocalist. When she went to ' Kngland, a girl of 17. she had lo sin" at three performances for nothin" y 0 \» she can get £IOOO for three .songs, and must have earned nearly two millions during the course of her brilliant operatic career all over the world. The last time Mine. Patti appeared at Covent OarJ^JIEL* 18 WOrc J° wels W* £BoO.OOO. Mme., Patti lias becu married throe times.] H. 3? : ■: , . ..«.,..■.. rfsn