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GENERAL NEWS NOTES OF THE DAY. The Japanese opposition partv. which is In thy majority, seems bent ou Introducing in parliament, which will convene in a few davs. a vote of lack or confidence in the Oktima Cabinet, while the latter announces it will dissolve the house if such a vote be passed. The opposition leaders assert the government is going to turn over the Island of Yap to England and Kiaochau to China, and that the northern half of the Tientsin-Nankin Railroad is on the point of falling into the hands of England. The existing preference rates on goods produced in and hipied from the united kingdom to Australia, as against the goods of other countries, have been advanced from ,r to 10 per cent in favor cC Great Britain on dry goods. The duties payable by foreigners sending goods into Australia also have been increased from " to .10 per cent and Great Britain lias been granted preference rates on certain products which heretofore have not been in the preferential class. "Rube" Manpiard, one of the New York National League clubs trio of leading pitchers, signed, a contract yesterday to pitch for the Brooklyn Federal League baseball club, according to an announcement made by President Itohert B. Ward of the Brooklyn club. This follows closely the announcement of the signing up of pitcher Walter Johnson by the Chipago Federals. F. A. Reeve, acting solicitor of the treasury department, has hauded down opinion which in effect will nernilt directors of national banks who are also directors of trust companies in" which tiler-. is not common ownership of stock to serve for two years yet and such portion of their terms, not exceeding one year thereafter, a may remain unserved. ... Orders have been issued by Secretary Lane opening to homestead entry more than 500.000 acres of western public lands which have been determined to be nonlrrlgable. After Jan. 11, 1915, the lauds may be taken up m tracts of 320 acres each under the enlarged homestead act. The propertv lies in Oregon. Montana and New Mexico. Governor-elect Charles S. Whitman is reported to have offered the position or district attorney of New York county, which he vacates next 111011th. to George W. Wiekersham. former attorney general of the United States. Mr. Wiekersham now is engaged in private practice, a partner of Henrv W. Taft. J. H. Kibhey and R. E. Sloan, former governor of Arizona: J. Purdy Billiard, retiring attorney general of the state, and live other attorneys, have been engaged to make an attack in court on tlr; state-wide prohibition amendment adopted at th? election In Arizona a month ago. Decision by the interstate commerce commission in the railroad rate case is to bo handed down within ! a week, and it is stated on good authority that it is to be a reversal of the former ruling in that it will be favorable to the railroads. Provisional President Gutierrez and Gen. Villa are in Mexico City and several of their military chiefs have gone to Cuernavaca to discuss with Gen. Zapata and his officers the distribution of forces in tiie capital and vicinity. Senator Myers, after a conference with the state department, declared that, unless Great Britain changes her attitude toward copper shipments, some of the American copper mines must shut down. From the beginning of the great war to date. 1,400 amateur wireless stations on the Pacific coait have been closed to better enforce neutrality. Stockholders of the .Metropolitan Life Insurance Company unanimously approved the plan for thy 11111-tualization of that company. Women ore not to wear tight skirts anv more. Such is fashions decree for next spring and summer. The St. Lawrence has been closed to navigation for the . winter.
