FROM OVERSEAS.

Manawatu Times, Volume LXV, Issue 1306, 3 May 1911, Page 5

FROM OVERSEAS.

(Press Association—By Telegraph.— Copyright).

•- London, Yesterday, At the Old Bailey, the charge of constructive murder against Peters and Dubof was withdrawn on Judge Grantham's suggestion, and a charge of "being accessories was substituted.

Rosen and three others are being charged with conspiracy to enter a jeweller's shop with intent to commit a felony. Mr Asmuth announced that Mr Lloyd-Gfeorge would introduce the Insurance and Invalidity M on Thursday,

A contingent Dreadnought, the Conqueror, was launched at the Clyde. Joseph Smith, one of the Mormon presidents, denies loose living and polygamy, arad invites westigatione a* Utah.

The Tames shows that Smitlh Was fined in 1900 for unlawful cofebitfttion, and alleges that he confessed to a Committee of the American Senate that he had five wives.

_An Anglo-Germaffl JViendship Society has been formed with the Duke of Argyle as president.

Sir George Reid was present, and said he' sympathised! with tho movement and hoped to see a solid agreement to' arrest the growth of airmametJits.

& coiners' _ plant valued at £SOO lias- been seized at OLapkffiJ and a Frenchman arrested.

In tie House 1 of Gommons, Hif' Asquith, fefemngto'complaints By Liberals regarding the''appointment of a preponderance of Unionist magistrates iffi certain localities, stated that Lord' Loreburn luad written, decking that' t*lio' appaiaiitmeii'ta belooigfed exclusively to his office,' and aidded that so\l<Jn£ as lie was- <3Bmc<& lor he would; adhere to the. views he expressed before'the Royal Commisaion.

Mr Asquitfr considered! that until' the country had a' better opportunity of judging of tile working of thie Advisory Committee, it Would lie premJatuire to giro a' day' to discuss' the' question.

_ Paris. Yesterday" The May Day demonstrators were barred from entering the Place de' la' Concorde, but assembled in the Champ Elysees, The Cuirassiers charged the mob, and several' arrests' were made, including; a man who fired a wvwer. A' poticemlan Was stabbed in the bsoK.