Home and Foreign News.

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume XXXV, Issue 5066, 14 June 1907, Page 3

Home and Foreign News.

NEW YORK, June 12. The reported assassination of Sneor Cabrera is incorrect. He is alive and well. LONDON, June 11. The Home Secretary (Mr Gladstone) is almost daily pressed to securo the withdrawal of the ban on the opera "The Mikado.!' Yesterday the band of the Japanese Flagship Tsukuba, now lying at Chatham, played many airs from "The Mikado," which forms part of their repertoire. «* LONDON, June 11. ■* . Mr J. R. Wilton, a 'South Australian, has taken fifth place in the mathematical {ripos at Cambridge. The Banbury Club has beaten, the New Zealand bowlers by 47 points to 36. ; PARIS, June 11. The Paris newspaper the Matin says it has been arranged that the Tsar and the Kaiser shall meet at tho end of June, aboard the Russian Imperial yacht, in the * North Sea. NEW YORK, June 11. The creditors of Messrs Millikcn Brothers, steel bridge builders, of New York, have applied for the appointment of a receiver. The firm's, lawyer states that the liabilities are £1, 300,000, and the assetts ,£1,800,---000. (Received 13, 8.30 a.m.) LONDON, June 12. The Government's Evicted Tenants Bill provides for the reinstatement of 2000 tenants or one-fourth of the total number* of applicants. (Received 14, 9.10 a.m.) CALCUTTA, June 13." Several prominent advocates of the ■boycott sedition have been arrested here. LONDON. Juno 13. The Rand miners -have asked Mr Ramsay Mac Dona k) and other Labourites to assist the strikers .with funds, and to secure" the withdrawal of troops on the -ground that without sokHers the mine owners would be unable to achieve their aims, as the -employ-meat, of volunteers. would k<ad tip civilt \ifor, iivajiy would side' with: \he strikers.' ' The death is «umounced of Mr Henry Hicks Hocking, formerly At-torney-General of Australia. PARIS, Juno 13.

Eight municipal bodies have resigned. M. Clemenceau -holds that the resignations, requiring a month's notice, are irregular, and that the municipal authorities are personally liable for damages for the consequences of stoppage. . LONDON, Jume IS.

Owing- to the introduction of a premium bonus system at the Vick-ers-Maxlun#\vorks at Erlth, nearly 2000 employees have struck. *

A Maori, writing to the Otaki paper, says :— "The Royal Commission have done good work. They have purchased two blocks up the Wanganui, also the Rangitoto block— *all good land — the Ihuwaka block, containing- 63,000 acres, .at 7s 6d per acre, and the best part of Rangitoto at £1 per acre. I must congratulate the Hon. Native Minister on the able and honest way in which he purchased these blocks. The native owners came forward and sold their land freely. This purchase supports the Treaty of Waitangi, where it mentions that the Maoris could sell to the Government if they liked, and not to confiscate.'*

A sensational society case was to be tried at Berlin on April 23. Fraulein Milewski, formerly Maid of Honour to the late Princess Amelie of Schleswig-Holsteiit, who was the aunt of the Empress, was, during the Princess's life, the recipient of many costly presents of jewellery from her mistress, and she alleges that she lent the Princess money. On the ■death of the Princess, her heir, the Duke CJunther, asserted that Fraulien Milewski had robbed his aunt, the l'rincess, of valuable jewels, «nd caused t-o be seized a sum of £85b ound at the lady's residence. Fraulien Milewski now claims £2.300, which, she states, she lent to the Princess.. Recently Ah Loon, -a Chinese, who had been summoned for the maintenance of a stepehikl, as % ward of the State, at the Baliarat Court. Victoria, •got so frightened al the prospect of being sent to gaol that he locked himself in c hut and cut his throat. The world's medScmal fceverafpe—