NEWS BY MAIL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 179, 27 January 1912, Page 9

NEWS BY MAIL.

COST OF LIVING. COLD STORAGE THE CAUSE OF HIGH PRICES. New York, December 7. The Secretary of Agriculture has reported that the high cost of living in America is due to cold storage. He bases this statement on two years' careful investigation. ~ Cold storage has permitted dealers to corner the market by allowing only limited supplies of food to be offered for sale, the rest being retained indefinitely. Thus, instead of low prices prevailing while commodities are in season arid naturally plentiful, their supply is artificially regulated by cold storage. They last longer and command higli prices,

PAGAN INSTITUTION. MR. SILVESTER HORNE ON THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND. London, December 8. A remarkable statement was made at a Free Church conference, representing the county of Anglesey, at Llangefni yesterday by the Rev. C. Silvester Home, M.P., who, after reciting some of the canons of the Church of England, said: "We Nonconformists regard the Church of England as a pagan institution, and will* not have it established. I wish to give notice that if the coming Disestablishment Bill makes over cathedrals to one denomination I will strongly oppose it. The cathedrals are great monuments built for national purposes, and I am not going to allow them to be for the sole use of the Episcopal Church,"

LINER CHASED BY A WATERSPOUT. \ FULL STEAM AHEAD TO AVOID A CATASTROPHE. New York, December 6. The White Star liner Cretic, which arrived here this morning from the Mediterranean, reports being chased by an immense water-spout on Monday morning. Captain Lodez first noticed the column about eight hundred feet high, and waa then a considerable distance away. It was following the Cretic at about the same speed. The lirier, owing to rough weather, was moving slowly. Had the spout fallen on the ship there would have been a catastrophe. Captain Lodez ordered ful\ speed ahead, and out-distanced the spout, which finally crossed the Cretic's path about -a mile astern, moving in a north-easterly direction.

MAN OF MANY SWINDLES. CONTINENTAL ROGUE WHO HAD ENGLISH VICTIMS. Paris, December 6. The Paris police announce the arrest of a member of the "swell mob" with half-a-dozen aliases, against whom many swindles are alleged. He is a good-looking man of twentyseven years, and was recognised by the French police as having given them some trouble at Nice in March last year, where he was staying in one of the best hotels with a very pretty American and living in excellent style. With two accomplices and the American girl he made the acquaintance of a rich merchant from Hamburg, who was staying at the Hotel Royal. The girl took rooms at the Hotel Majestic, went to tea at the Royal one afternoon, and allowed her friends to introduce the German to her. Baccarat at the Majestic was the next act and an arrest the third. But the evidence was not plain enough for anything but expulsion, although there was no doubt that the German was being robbed. The police have since found out that their captive, with the assistance of the I accomplices, also relieved a Scotchman of £4O. The Scotchman lodged a complaint with the police at Mentone, where this theft took place, and the swindlers bolted. In 1905 the man was concerned in a robbery at the Hotel Victoria at Interlaken, and in 1908 he is known to have won £2BO from an American, with a double-headed sovereign. In August of this year a member of the National Liberal Club in London gambled with him in Boulogne, and lost £6B, for which he gave a cheque. A "1" was added in front of the "6," but when the cheque was presented payment was refused. The police are in correspondence with Scotland Yard, and hope to trace the -man's accomplices on this side of the Channel or the other.

ROCKEFELLER RETIRES. STANDARD OIL KING RESIGNS TRUST PRESIDENCY. « New York, December 4. Following the recent order of the Supreme Court that the Standard Oil Trust must be dissolved and break into numerous rival companies, all the Rockefellers to-day resigned their official positions in the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey, which was the parent company of the Trust. They also resigned from all the Trust's subsidiary companies. Mr. John D. Rockefeller is succeeded as president in the New Jersey Company by his chief lieutenant, Mr. J. D. Archbold. The move is understood to have been taken for the purpose of indicating that the Standard Oil Company is obeying the law by breaking official connection among the new independent comp&niMj which, if the law is obeyed, will replace the trust. It is without other significance as far as is known.

MAN WHO LIBELLED THE KING. MYLIUS RELEASED PROM WORMWOOD SCRUBS. Ixmdon, December 8. Edward F. Mylius, who was sentenced to 12 months' imprisonment for libelling the King, was released from Wormwood Scrubs prison yesterday. Hp has earned the full remission of two months from his sentence by good conduct in prison, for his trial ended before the Lord Chief Justice on February 1 last, and the period of his sentence dated from his unsuccessful attempt at appeal a week later against the sentence. Mylius was released, as is customary, early in the morning, so quietly that only one or two close personal friends knew that he was free. He is in good health and spirits, in spite of his prison experience. Since his sentence he has been confined at Wormwood Scrubs, leading the ordinary life of prisoners sentenced to similar terms, and until just before his release he was unaware that he might not be called upon to serve his full time. CARDINAL BOURNE. THE ROMAN PONTIFF'S LOVE FOR ENGLAND. Rome, December 5. The growth of Roman Catholicism in England and the dream of England's return to the authority of the Pope, formed the main theme of Cardinal Bourne's ad-

dress in Rome yesterday, on the occasion of his taking possession of his titular church of St. Pudenziana. After referring to the work of Cardinal Wiseman in re-establishing the Roman hierarchy in England, he said: "The Pope has given to the work of restoration, begun in 1850, its crown, and its completion by the creation of two new ecclesiastical provinces, thereby out the way to that multiplication of centres of sacred activity for which the spiritual needs of England will most surely call. The Archbishop of Westminster has been called to the sacred college as a signal proof of the Roman Pontiff's love for England and English Catholics. For a thousand years these terms were practicality- synonymous and identical in their extension. And if to-day we have /with sorrow to divide our country into those that 'of the household of faith/ and those whom we affectionately but sadly term 'our separated brethren/ the fault is not with us, but lies to the charge of (/lie men who more than 300 years ago snapped the chain that began to be forced\ in the house of Cornelius Pudens. The minds of many at home are turned with ardent longing to thoughts of knitting afresh the bonds which were broken then. But for the most part they are seeking their end where it can never be found, namely, in a compromise of religious truth. There is but one scheme that can succeed, the Divine scheme of Jesus Christ our Lord, Who has made of Peter and his successors the foundation of His Church, and has given to them the power to confirm their brethren in truth. May the intercession of Peter and Pudentiana and of. all our Saints of British, Saxon, Norman or English blood soon restore to out Blessed .Lady her dowry in unsullied, beaty, and grant to our beloved Eng. land once again her full and proper place in the one true Church of Jesua Christ, the Holy Catholic Apostolic and Roman Church."

THE DYNAMITERS' CONFESSION. BETRAYAL OP AMERICAN TRADE UNIONS. New York, December 3. j To say that organised labor in Amprica is stunned by the confession of the brothers James and John McNamara at Los Angeles on Friday that they set the bomb which blew up the office of the Los Angeles Times on October 1, 1910, and killed twenty-one persons, is putting the case mildly. Mr. Samuel Gompers, the veteran president of the American Federation of Labor, who has devoted his life to the trade union cause, could only say, "I do not know what to dp," when the news was brought to him. Tears were running down his cheeks as he spoke. Mr. Gompers had pinned his faith to the McNaraaras, and had been chiefly instrumental in raising a fund of more than' £IOO,OOO for their defence. Later he denounced them as the worst imposters in the- history of labor, and told how they hai assured him when he visited them in prison that they would be able to prove their innocence. Never before in the history of the struggle between capital and labor in America has there bqen such intense excitement as has been caused by the McNamaras' confession. The whole country is aflame with indignation, while organised labor is "engaged in a concerted effort to dissociate itself from the men for whose defence it was willing to spend its last shilling. The dynamiters are denounced as Iscariots, but it is' not clear whether in all cases tlieir maledictions on the Los Angeles, prisoners are due to the fact that they dynamited nonunion works, or to the fact that they confessed. y

Had the trial continued to the end and the McNamaras been found guilty, labor was prepared to hail them ai martyrs to the capitalist system, hounded to death despite their innocence. Many meetings were held previous to the confession, at which working men declared that no matter what the verdict might be, they would always consider the brothers victims of capital. Now labor is so enraged that hundreds of telegrams have been sent by labor leaders to Judge Cordwell, who will pronounce sentence on Tuesday, urging him to impose the death penalty, despite the fact that it is understood that the confessions were made after an unofficial intimation that the maximum sentence would not l>e imposed. It is stated that the prosecution has evidence of dynamiting against other labor leaders and of a plot to blow up the aristocratic Plaza Hotel in New York while it was being erected. Other trials may follow, though there is a growing feeling that it might be best not to proceed with these cases, because it is advisable that the present intense national excitement should be allowed to die down as soon as possible. Mr. William J. Burns, the detective who worked up the evidence against the McNamaras, says that he has evidence that the gang of which they were the heads have blown up at least seventy industrial plants during the last few I years and sacrificed more than a hundred lives.