MISCELANEOUS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XVIII, Issue XVIII, 30 November 1912, Page 8

MISCELANEOUS.

(Received Nov. 30, 11 a.m.) ST. PETERSBURG, Nov. 29. It is stated that the Czarvitch is sufi'ering from a skin deficiency similar to that which befel the late Dukejjf Albany. It is uncertain whether his -trouble is defective ossification <»r -tubercular.

TOKIO, Not. 29. The struggle over the War Office's proposal to establish a permanent military division in Korea is becoming a question of popular government versus militarism and bureaucracy. Hitherto the Ministers of War and Marine were responsible to the Emperor, not to the Premier. Supporters of rigid economy oppose the Korean proposal. BRISBANE, Not. 29. In the case of a tramway arbitration counsel for the Brisbane Tramway Company, addressing the court, said the oniployers asked for justice not sympathy. Mr Justice Higgins replied: "Justice to you means dictating your own terms." To a further remark Judge Higgins retorted that some fitnesses were stuffed; they were driven into a pen like sheep, and were asked leading questions, which was putting stuffing into the mouths of men when at your mercy. He. added that the Arbitration Act was intended to encourage unionism, whereas the manager of the Brisbane Tramway Company had deevedited unionism, thereby disobeying the Act.