NEWS IN BRIEF

Gisborne Times, Volume XXX, Issue 3454, 20 February 1912, Page 2

NEWS IN BRIEF

Wolves are so numerous in the outlying districts of Quebec province that the Government is taking steps to have poison laid. The National Park, is particularly suffering from the ravages of the animals. ' The protecting powers have demanded the punishment of the murderers of a number of Mahommedans at Retimo. The local government authorities profess that they are powerless to comply with the demand. At Madrid the theatre strike against excessive taxes has been settled. A million pesetas has been voted for the relief of sufferers by the floods in Spain. The twelfth German Dreadnought, the Prinz Regent Luitpold, has been launched at Kiel in the presence of the A fire' at the power station in Paar Valiev (Germany) deprived many -towns and villages of electricity, and rendered 20.000 persons idle. H.M.S. Powerful, with the body of the iate Duke of" Fife aboard, has sailed from Malta for Gibraltar. The Oceanic, bound from New York to Liverpool, lost her foremast and wireless installation in an Atlantic storm. At a meeting of several thousand Radicals in Trafalgar Square, Mr Gladstone, M.P., was the chief speaker. He urged that a generous measure of Home Rule for Ireland should be provided for. The late Henry Swaffield, of Seven Oaks, has the Wesleyan Church a sum of £15,000. . A cargo of 40,0001bs of black powder and 1200 lbs of dynamite were used' in the Sandstone Company’s quarry at Tenino, Washington State, and dislodged a million tons of stone. This is believed to be the largest amount of commercially usable stone ever dislodged by one charge- . . . Baron Sucliiki, ex-President of the Japanese Privy Council, who presided at a Young Men’s Christian Association meeting at Seoul, and several others, have been arrested in connection with a plot to assassinate Viscount Teranchi.