MAIL NEWS.

Gisborne Times, Volume X, Issue 1014, 6 October 1903, Page 1

MAIL NEWS.

MR CHAMBERLAIN’S FISCAL PROPOSALS. (By Telegraph.) (Per R.M.to. Sonoma, at Auckland.) SAN. FRANCISCO, Sept. 17. The London Daily Mail has given what purports to be an outline of Mr Chamberlain’s fiscal proposals, which are said to be as follows A duty of 2s and 3s on wheat and a heavier duty on flour ; smalL duties on meat, eggs, dairy products, and equivalent remissions of duty on tea, sugar, and tobacco, also two scales of duties on manufactured products, 10 per cent, and 20 per cent., with the view, of securing reciprocity .treaties with foreign nations, the proceeds of these duties to be devoted to the relief of income tax or furr ther remissions of dutie on tea, sugar, and tobacco^

TURKISH ATROCITIES. .(Per R.M.S. S.onoma i at Auckland.) SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 17. American newspapers are filled .with accounts of tile Turkish atrocities in Macedonia, with prognostications of war, and testimony and surmises as to the attitude of the Powers toward Turkey and Bulgaria., A despatch dated London, September 15th, says : Tho Sofia correspondent of the Times telegraphs that the situation has changed distinctly, for the worse. The Powers appear to be pursuing exactly the same tactics which preceded the Greco-Turk-ish war. The result will probably, be similar, Instead of taking steps to check the barbarities committed n Macedonia, they have allowed matters to drift, and are now. trying to find a remedy, in useless and irritating admonitions to the Bulgarian .Government.

RAILWAY. COLLISION. ;(Per R.M.S. Sonoma, at Auckland.) SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 17. A despatch from Rome, dated Aug. : 28, states : A disastrous- railway accident cut short the festivities and demonstrations in honor of the King and Queen at Udine, the chief town on the eastern frontier, 60 miles from Venice, .where the Sovereigns had gone to view the .German Army, manoeuvres. At ten o’clock; last night near Udine, a train, overflowing with soldiers, collided with a freight train. .The dead numbered twenty and the wounded eighty, including six officers. The Captain, who was killed,' bad his head cut off. The enginedriver was burned alive. Both engines were destroyed. Several cars .were crushed into splinters. The transportation of wounded was a pitiful sight, women crying all along the route. Darkness rendered the confusion at the scene of .the wreck extreme, and the terror was increased when the train took fire shortly afterwards. Fortunately the flames were immediately put out. Special, trains were hurriedly sent to the scene, car 'ying authorities from the nearest town, who organised corps of physicians,- and aided the wounded. . . King Victor Emanuel visited the hospital in person later to sec the victims of the accident. Queen Helena accompanied the King on his visit to the scene of disaster, and spoke words of sympathy to each- of the wounded, with whom the King shook hands.