, 1909-11-20

who broke windows at the Guild Hall during
the Lord Mayors banquet have been SEN
fenced to one months Imprisonment with
hard labour or a fine of five pounds. They
we're charged with wilful damage and being
upon enclosed premises for an unlawful pdr-
pose.
Sir Robert Perks, Liberal MP. for Louth,
announces that he VIII no longer support the
government, because of It's socialistic tenden.
cies.
A despatch from Perth, Western Austria
liza, announces that the Great Boulder gold
mines are on fire, damage estimated ut three
hundred thousand pounds.
Mr.. Brennan, the inventor of the torpedo
which procured for him the Commandersuip
of the Bath, has exhibited at G|illingham a
gyroscope car mounted upon bicycle trucks
forty feet long, ten feet wide and thirteen
feet high, weighing twenty two tons, with a
capacity for ten tons. 1t carried persons
around curves upon a single rail balanced by
a pair of horoscopes, which quickly restored
equilibrium when passengers shifted their
positions from side to side. Two gyros-
copes forty two inches in diameter, together
weighing three thousand pounds, spun three
thousand revolutions a minute. Its speed,
stability and economy surpnss the ordinary
railway, and one hundred and fifty miles AZ
hour are practicable and said to BE safer than
sixty under present conditions. This mar
vellous invention contains q promise Of reVo-
lutionizing present railway practice. The
gyroscope principle works better when full
SIZE than the small model exhibited at the
Royal SOciety's meeting in May 1907.
A Berlin despatch states that n gyrosco-
pic car resembling Mr.. Brennan's, ten feet
long, ran slowly around a hall at the Zoologi-
cal Garden.
The Kaiser has told Count Zeppelin that
he will never ascend in a balloon or aero
plane, because the Empress, who regards them
as dangerous, had procured his promise not
to make the venture,
Further information regarding the KEEL tri-
al states that the evidence shows that the con
tractors distracted genuine documents from
the flies and inserted fraudulent ones, lead
ing the Department to believe that Illicit
operations were normal.
Paris advlces state that as a result of the
criticisms of the Steinheil trial the Minister
of Justice will propose reforms and the Judge
will cease to be the prosecutor, becoming
more like the Anglo Saxon judges. The
The Judges severity has reacted III Madame
Steinheils favour, and the evidence is also
better for her.
OTTAWA, Novr. 11th-Parliament will open
on Thursday next The speech from
the throne will include mention Of y naval es-
Enlistment, the Franco Canadian treaty, in
tercolonial railway expansion by branch lines
and legislation against trade combinations
unduly enhancing prices.
New York Nov 18th. At the New York
horse show Major Beresford of the seventh
British hussars obtained the highest prize IN
the officers chargers class. He received a
tremendous ovation from the huge crowds
assembled.
(By New York San Juan opportunity
London, Nov 12th-The Bank Of EuglNnd's
reserve has risen from 5 per cent to over
fifty. The position is strong and annuls the
anticipated rise in the rate of discount.
The Joint Committee of the Houses Of Par
lament, on the question of the dramatic
censorship has reported in favour of continu-
ing the censorship of the drama, including
music halls, and also that it be lawful to pro
duce unlicensed performances under risk of
indictment and prosecution. Licences are
to be issued by the Common Council instead
Of by the Chamberlain The general effect
is to give greater freedom in the production
of dramas containing advanced ideas and
religious subjects, which have hitherto been