NEWS IN BRIEF

Gisborne Times, Volume XXX, Issue 3457, 23 February 1912, Page 2

NEWS IN BRIEF

The value of the mineral of New South AAhiles last year was £9,758,000, an increase of £1,021,000 over that of the previous year. The increase was mainly due to coal, silver, lead, and copper. The aggregate value of metals won to the end of 1911 was £217,877,000. . . . _ _ At the Sugar Commission m Sydney two jam manufacturers gave evidence that they were prefectly satisfied with tlie manner in which they were treated by the Sugar Company, They considered the price fair. Ex-Senator Pulsford declared that the duty of £6 per toil all went in profit. The industry meant a charge on the people of £1,350,000 a year. There would he greater future aggregation. It would he £15,000,000 in the next ten years. The duty tended to develop Queensland at the expense of other States. Mr H. Patten, a brother of James Patten, the erstwhile American wheat king, has arrived in Sydney from America. He declares that he has no intention of cornering the market, or doing business in Australia. America was quite a big enough field. The final election figures for the Assembly show the state of parties to be Liberals 24, Labor 16. In the Council the Liberals secured 12 seats and Labor 6.

A Paris telegram states that an excursion car used along the coast at Nice, collided with a motor car in which was Lord Dudley, ex-Governor-General of Australia. The occupants of the excursion car were thrown over & parapet, several being seriously injured. Lord Dudley escaped injury. After construction work occupying 16 years, the railway has reached the Jungfrau saddle, 2000 ft below the top. The Liverpool Journal of Commerce announces that orders have been placed in North-east yards for the construe, tion of 21 oil-tank vessels, adapted for the consumption of oil or coal. The vessels will include eight of 15,000 tons, and eleven of 9000 tons. The Bulgarian chief, Dougo, incensed) by the refusal of Bulgarian inmates 'of a mill at Petrick to support the revolutionary propaganda, raided the mill and killed eleven unarmed inmates.

A locksmith named Trenkler lias confessed that lie committed the triple murder on January 18, when a jeweller’s shop in Berlin was found to have been broken into and plundered, and the murdered bodies of the jeweller, liis wife, and daughter were discovered. Their skulls had been shattered with a hammer. The British Columbian Cabinet is planning an extensive railway scheme to develop the northern interior of the province, where vast mineral and agricultural resources only await transportation. The Alberta Government has decided to open the hinterland of Alberta, where millions of acres of land are available for settlement. The provincial elections in British Columbia will be fought on Premier Mcßride’s railway policy. The Pope has sent a. thousand stragglers for relief of sufferers from flood in Andalusia. During fighting in the vicinity of Melilla (Morocco) six Spaniards were killed and 28 wounded. The Moors suffered heavily. One hundred were also killed! elsewhere. Censors prohibited the production of Cecil Raleigh’s drama “The-Great Millionaire,” at Berlin, because of a scene depicting bread rioting. The launch which capsized on the Irrawaddy River belonged to the Flotilla Company. The disaster was caused by a strong eddy. An Argentine cricket tea nix defeated! Lord Hawke’s Marylcbone ream by four wickets. At North Adams, Massachusetts, a freight train collided midway through the Voosac tunnel, with a crowded Boston, express. The wreckage of the freight train caught five, and four trainmen were burned to death. The tunnel is blocked completely. The passengers escaped from the express train. The heat was so great that portions. of the tunnel, collapsed.