, 1909-10-13

alrshlpS upon LleuCeDauC Caldefafh nouel.
The Belgrade correspondent of the Daily
Telegraph says Abdul Hamil, the deposed
Sultan of Turkey, ordered repairs done to
his villa, but directed the workmen to battle
first, he also donned workman's clothes and
escaped, but was soon arrested. A workman
has been arrested as an %accomplice.
Two days t6tes have been held at Grand
Falls, Newfoundland, to celebrate the starting
of the Anglo Newfoundland Company's six
million dollars plant for the manufacture Of
paper for Lord Northcliff's newspapers.
Ottawa, Oct 9th-Messrs Harlaud and
Wolff will establish a shipyard in Canada,
probably at Halifax. The Pacific section of
the Dominion fleet will probably be built at
Prince Rupert. Captain Newton, the Cover
nor Generals Aide de Camp, has resigned to
represent Harland and Wolff. When Gene
raj French visits Canada all the Dominion
troops, numbering fifty seven thousand, will
be modified.
New York, Oct. 9th-Mr Otto Barnard
was making his first speech accepting the
Fusion nomination for Mayor, when the
meeting was disturbed by Miss Maud Ma
lone, the suffragette. Mr.. Barnard vainly at
tempted to explain that the suffrage was no
issue in the City Campaign, but she per
severed until he stopped talking. She was
elected, but the meeting was adjourned.
London, Oct. 11th.-Mr. Lloyd George, in
his speech at Newcastle on Saturday, said
eve will send the Budget to the Lords and
get all our taxes or none" He did not know
what action would be taken by poor
Lord Lansdowne with his creaking old ship
and mutinous crew, but if the Lords tore up
the constitution by interfering with a money
bill they would force a revolution, which once
begun, the people will direct, arousing issues
which now were not dreamed Of. The Dukes,
he added, are c%ostlier than the Dreadnoughts
and their stock < is the only stock depressed
by the budget, and pending issues are perilous
to the order of things the Peers represent.
The suffragettes mobbed him as he was
entering his car, aud LadyConstance Lytton,
who was CARRYING a Ratchet, was arrested
with several others. The sutfragettes who
stoned the WINDOWS Of the Liberal Club have
been sentenced 10 fourteen days hard la
bour.
The present prospects are that the Govern
ment will get the Budget nj the cost of los
ing a strategic advantage in their struggle
against the Lords, and the Opposition will
get a direct appeal to the country on the
Budget, with tariff reform as an alternative
system of finance, thus the Issue Will not be
complicated with the constitutional ques.
ton. The possibility of a general election il
November is being discussed.
It is intimated that Lord Kitchener is
dissatisfied with his present position and
may perhaps succeed the Earl of Mimic as
Governor General of India.
Nh. Cody has failed in two attempts to fly
from London to Manchester. His engines
were flooded with oil Mr.. Humphreys ma
chine turned over and was smashed.
At Paris four hundred thousand persons
attempted to witness the aviation race. Two
hundred thousand paid the entrance fee and
others thronged the hill sides and rioted
when unable to gain admission or transpor-
tation through congestion on the railway.
They smashed every carriage window, wrecked
the railway station and booed the employees.
The Wright model was first in all contests.
General Brun, the French minister of War,
has retired General d Amade, upon the lat
eer's admission of the reports of his indiscreet
speech suggesting that Spain was seeking
in Morocco compensation for the loss of her
colonies IN her war with the United States,
M. BRAND, the Premier, has issued a decree
of dismissal with an expression of regret for
the loss of General D Amade's brilliant SER
vices.