POLISH EXPROPRIATION.

Evening Post, Volume LXXIV, Issue 138, 7 December 1907, Page 7

POLISH EXPROPRIATION.

■<» A PROPOSAL REJECTED. By Teie^rawli.-I'ress Association. — Copyrights (Rccohed December 7, 8.45 a.m.) BERIIX. 6th December. The Committee of the Prussian Diet, by nineteen to. nine, rejected the Polish expropriation 'proposals. Prince Bulow asked for a credit of seventeen and a half millions sterling for expropriating the land of Polish owners. In 1902 the- Diet appropriated 150,000,000 marks for the settlement of small German proprietors in the Polish provinces, and 100,000,000 marks for the purchase of estates to be partly converted into . Government domains. When the measure was introduced the Polish deputies left the Chamber in a, body. » LABOUR LEADERS SHOT. » o» MURDERER SUPPOSED TO BE INSANE. By Telegraph.— Press Association.— Copyright. (Received December 7, 8.58 a.m.) NEW YORK, 6th December. A man, apparently insane, shot three Labour leaders who were- conferring with Governor Guild, of Massachusetts, at the latter's residence in Boston. 11 is expected that two of the victims will die. The man says he meant to shoot the Governor. TWO SISTERS DROWNED. « A SAD AFFAIR. By Telegraph.— Frees -iesocialion.- -Copyright. (Received December 7, 9 a.m.) MELBOURNE, This Day. A sad affair is reported. Lily Kean, who was suffering from melancholia, rushed into the sea. Her bister went to the rescue, but both were drowned. TRADES UNIONISM. NEW SOUTH WALES RETURNS. By Teiearaph.— l'rpea Association. — Copyright. (Received December 7, 8.58 a.m.) SYDNEY This Day. The report of the Registrar of Trades Unions shows the number of trade unionists at the end of 1906 was 88,428, and that the funds totalled £82,053. A KEIR HARDIE RECEPTION. «, ANGRY LEGISLATORS. By Telegraph. — Press Associntion. — Copyright. (Roceivod Dccembor 7, 8.58 a.m.) ADELAIDE, This Day. In the Assembly seveial members hotly 'resentrd remarks made by a. Legislative Councillor legarding the reception given to Mr. Keir llardie, British Labour M.P., at ParlLimont House, and urged the Promior to lake action in view of the reflections cast on members of the Assembly. One member characterised the remarks as insulting, blackguardly insinuations. A NO-LICENSE DISTRICT. —' ' ■ ■■■ fBT TELEGHAra. — T>nr.S3 ASSOCIATION.] OAMAttU, This Day. My. R. ]I. Tin ton, S.M., (his morning acquitted Charles Kcarns, charged with keeping alcoholic liquor for sale in a uo-licenso district, on the ground that the, weight of evidence was in favour of defendant, and that tlifvn were «o (-uMiuioun ciiroinMuncor.. The intormatlon you UiAwJAwuU ,v;iiJtiaut &&!&,