GENERAL NEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 272, 9 April 1913, Page 6

GENERAL NEWS.

The following items were cahled to the Sydney Sun on March -5, 20, 27 and 2S: There was a big exodus of Scotsmen from Glasgow on Saturday, when 30,000 of them emigrated to Canada. The English shop assistants, whose annual conference is now being held at Nevvcastle-on-Tyne, have adopted a resolution demanding a limitation of the hours of work to 00 a week. The United Irish League are arranging a monster Home Rule demonstration, which is to be held in Dublin some time in May. Because the Belgian Government refused to appoint a Commission to investigate the question of electoral reform, the Socialists' Congress in Brussels decided to declare a general strike for April 14. The manager of the Ghent Exhibition and representatives of the Ghent trade unions begged of the congress to take into account the fact that £1,200,000 was being spent on the exhibition, but the delegates declined to revoke their decision.

Reports made by London coroners indicate that the rapid increase in street fatalities is due to motor cars.

Makers of proprietary medicines in London are asking the Government to adopt drastic measures in order to stop vendors from offering similar preparations at a lower price with the assurance that they are "just as good." Dr. Friedmann will go back to Germany within a fortnight to examine the patients whom he treated before coming to the United States. He will then return to New York. The Public Health Department of the United States has announced that it will proceed as fast as possible with its investigations into the efficiency of the Friedmann consumption cure. Dr. Friedmann's supply of vaccine has become exhausted, and lie is busy preparing more. Mr. Watt, the Premier of Victoria, says that Australia has abandoned the cry of "Australia for the Australians," arid lias substituted "Australia for desirable white people. What Australia tvants is men." Any man with health and sense, and prepared to work, he adds, may rely on getting on in the Commonwealth. A national congress of doctors sitting in Rome has been discussing the subject of modern feminine fashions and their effect on health. The doctors agreed that the present-day style of dress affected by women contributed enormously to the increase of tuberculosis, and that Borne international arrangement was necessary to arrest tho progress of the disease.

.John Hartigan. formerly of the New York-police,-i-lins t° two years' and six months' imprisonment, for perjurv, committed during the recent investigation into charges of graft in connection with the Police Department. A German aviator namei,l Scherf made a daring flight over the Bulgarian lines at Chataldja 011 behalf of the Turks. He estimated the strength of the enemy at 115.000 men, and also returned with a complete sketch of the disposition of the troops and batteries. A war aeroplane fund has been opened in Calgarv, the chief town in the Alberta district. The idea is to have a flying machine built for presentation to the British Government as a gift from the citizens of Calgary. A sum of £<2so has already been pledged. The United Kingdom Postal Clerks' Association have adopted a resolution favoring the right of civil servants to strike work ns a means of having any grievances redressed. General Booth has instituted a new department to the Salvation Army, to assist in enforcing the provisions of the White Slave Act. The officials of this department will also interest themselves in the protection of women emigrants leaving England for the oversea dominions. , , • , Mr. C. C. Craig. Unionist M.P. for South Antrim, speaking to his constituents. advised the Irish Unionists to enrol a volunteer force. He predicted that shortly they would be armed with weapons which would convert them into a formidable fighting force. The knowledge that there were thousands of men armed and ready to take the field would be calculated stave off Home Rule. Addressing the Unionist Working Men's Club in Belfast, the Marquis of Londonderry said that their English opponents decb:v(d tli.it ( Ister was relating its opposition to Home Rule. Tiie meetings that had been held throughout Ulster, however, showed that the hostility to the Home Hide movement was more intense, than ever. A fire that broke out :»t iho Union Abattoirs, in Baltimore, .V r"l"ivl. did <1 image to the anion"' . VT.ile fightinsr the iliinin 10 cf the I." - in-:) were caught b . .■> .-ail. Eight of the men weiY >. v "if' lr i'..i''ing the debris, all hurt, lvr it is feared that the others have bee" killed.

The Duke of Connaught, Governor-Gen-eral of Caiif will return to the Dominion after "brief stay in England. It is uncertain whether the Duchess will go back with him. Accompanied by a lady passenger, an aeronaut named Rumplemayer has just completed a record flight in Southern Russia, travelling 1500 miles in 41 hours. At a meeting in London of the National Council of Teachers a motion was submitted expressing sympathy with the suffragettes. A violent scene of disorde. followed. and eventually an amendment was carried declaring that the question was foreign to the objects of the council.

The funds that, arc being raised in London for the Antarctic heroes now total £53,000. The Berlin Press take an optimisticview of the Eastern question, and pay some high tributes to the success of Sir Edward Grey's co-operation with fiermany. The Cologne Gazette remarks that' although Sir Edward Grey served Britain's interests, it. makes 110 difference in the fact that Europe has to thank hi in for the services he has rendered in Iho direction of securing European peace. Tll parliamentary circles in Berlin the First Lord's suggestion of a year's holiday from naval construction is impossible as far as Germany is concerned. The Vossisclic Zeitung and the Berliner Tagcblat I welcome Mr. inston Churchill's speech will) much cordiality. They state that it proves that the Anglo-Ger-man'understanding has progressed and increased, and express the hope that it may result in mutual limitation of naval construction.

ilr. S. E. Cody. Hie well-known aerial expert, who is connected with the British Army, has ordered ail areoplnne with a horse-power of 5(10. and capable of lifting a lon. The speed of the now machine will vary between 35 and DO miles a.ll hour, and the new aeroplane is destined to act as a destroyer of smaller airships and dirigibles. There were lively limes at Sligo, Ireland. The (|iiav laborers there are 011 slrike. and strike-breakers Were taken across from Liverpool to carry on the work of the port. The strikers attacked (lie imported nice, and in the riols '!•'(< '"1 - 'l'll n<:i'.v «!••>;•■= WIT' wrecked. The milit abad t > 1- e»IM nut.