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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 9183, 6 April 1910, Page 5

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(By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) ; (Per Press Association.) Received April 6, 8.25 a.m. LONDON, April 5. The New Zealand Shipping Company has declared an interim bonus of 5s per share. At a meeting in connection with Capt. Scott's Antarctic expedition at Liverpool an appeal was mado for £6000 to complete the £40,000- required, and £1115 was immediately subscribed. After thirty hours' concealment the police discovered a well-dressed suffragette hiding in the ventilating shaft of the House of Commons. She was removed in time to prevent a disturbance during the debate on Mr Aequith's resolution. ROME, April 5. The activity of the Etna crater is distinctly lessening. Received April 6. 8.25 a.m. PARIS, April 5. ' An imposing demonstration took place at" San Sebastian while M. Lo Blon's body was being taken to the station on the way to Paris. The streets were lined with troops and tho shops closed. Thousands followed the coffin. Tho French Chamber by 428 to 131 voted for the laying down of two Dreadnoughts in August, to be completed in 1913. Received April 6, 9.10 a.m. OTTAWA, April 5. During tho Canadian artillery manoeuvres at Montreal successful experiments were mado with petrol traction engines. At a speed of seven miles an hour tho cost was one-fiftieth of horses. LONDON, April 5. In the course of a lawsuit against Ruth St. Denis, a, dancer, she stated, she received £270 a week for a London engagement. Lord Jersey, who is in bad health, has dropped his libel suit against Llewellyn Williams, M.P. It arose out of allegations against Lord Jersey as a landlord at Swansea. Tho official report on the Stoat Nest railway accident'is to the effect that the disaster was caused by a wheel sliding on the axle. The Government inspector urges severe tests on tho railways for gripping , wheels to axles. The Daily Telegraph announces that the Government is considering the appointment of a Royal Commission on tariff reform, with a personnel which will commend itself to tho Unionists. Iho Commissioners will be required to report within a year. r,» T T>r» α-ir CAIRO, April 5. The Egyptian Premier has announced that the Government will abide by the Assembly's forthcoming decision respecting tho renewal of the Suez Canal coneeesion. CAPETOWN, April 5. The newspapers of tho Progressive partv denounce- the enforced resignation of Mr Gunn. Director of Education in Orangia, owing to Mr Hertzog s bilingual proposals. . . The Orangia Parliament is considering a Bill extending tho bi-lingual principle among teachers. Received April 6, 8.45 a.m. WASHINGTON, April 5. Senator Conger, against whom allegations of bribery were recently brought, has resigned his position as Senator in tho New York Legislature, thus forestalling an enquiry into his conduct. CAPETOWN, April 5.

Sir George Farrar, speaking at a conference of the Transvaal Progressive Federation, declared tho Het Volk of Orangia and the Bond were now regarded as ono party. However willing General Botha, had been to corporate with the Progressives his retrograde followers were too strong for him. Sir George Farrar advised the Progressive to reorganise under Dr. Jameson. Their opponents were fighting among themselves for tho Premiership. Hβ urged that South Africa should share the cost of the Imperial Navy. MANILA, April 5. The two Japanese recently arrested as spies were deported to Formosa. Received April 6, 8.45 a.m. LONDON, April 5. Under the auspices of the Public School Immigration League Dr. Gray, headmaster of Bradfield College, is taking a. dozen youths and training them on a thousand-acre ranch at Calgary, in Alberta Land, to enable them to take up farming for themselves. BERLIjN, April 5.

The German butter boycottcrs strongly ur"-ed the removal of the prohibition of importation on Australian and New Zealand butter.