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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLVI, Issue XLVI, 27 January 1911, Page 1

SUMMARY.

Under the .Sheaders and Agricultural Labourers Act Summonses must be personally served, register-/" ed posting not being sufficient. : The British Labour Party allege growing political bias among judges. . Viekers,' Son and Maxim are makr in,g for Portugal 3 0 battle&hi'DS and an arsenal, at a cost of £20,000,000, Eai\;elr«na anarchist 'placards protesting against the execution of t'he Japanese conspirators 1 hay* been torn down by the Spanish police. '>_ . Last year 35,769 people arrived in and 32,3,61 departed from ' NewZealand, with 38,650 and 33,931 respectively in 1909. -}* : : Commonwealth notes'' issued to date number 1,5-5 0,000; valued at £3,756,691. . ■:,.■■■■■ The present members of the Arbitration. Court 'aave been reappointed by "'Gazette" no'tice. ' The Thames ■S.-M; ha s reserved decision on the point whether a pubh-. can could be fined for selling on December 26th last. The bush fires in the Manawatu district, have destroyed about a mile of beautiful Gorge scenery. v About 100 Mexican 'Federal eavalry, are fighting: 200 insurgents near the United St'ate s border, near Juarez. The Wi&consin (U.S.) Legislature is penalising the -hobble skirt, ' but ipsrmittin,g the use of Turkish tiouserettes. Maskpd robbers held up a street n ar. at. Santa Monica, but fled on. the passenger s showing fight. Mr Underwood, a political Labourite, declares that University men are always in' the rear aiid have no aptitude for politics. The remains of Maior Laing, murdered near Timbuctou' in 1826, h-a've' li'cen discovered. The- London County Council is -supplying 9,5;0O,0OO school children's nieals annually. , Lord Curzom says that for the time China an d Japan have, ample home' territory for their surplus' po-, ■pulation. According to Lord Curzon personal rule -still appealed to 7'Zastern peoples where 'the national spirit, was rot set at defiance. - . -• The case of the- Buluwayo- native sentenced to death- for nssaultingya white woman and reprieved, is said , to- have no redeeming features, s ■' ' ■ The Japanese Embassy at-Baris i B being protected by .gend'armes owing 'to anarchist .threats with Tegard to the Tokio executions. , Only a sparse attendance of "Maries" answered the Auckland sppeal for a ''Maries'' ?' presentation to Queen Mary a t the CororiaAustralia's- gold imports last year totalled £1,031,439, against ,' gold exports valued at £4,738,147. , , Indentured, labour permits in ' the pearl- fisheries will lapse after two year s imless applicable aaJy to whites. Opposition from New Erigland in-terests-is with' regard to i<he ireciprocity"agreement between the United States and Canada. ' A "no cure no pay" contract to salve the 'hull of the Aoiea has ' been let at Capetown. \. A Victorian who -swallowed flaked lye for a sweetmeat 1 a year ago, ' died on Monday of starvation. aa his thoat had gradually closed: The death ie recorded of the Bt. Hon. Sir Charles Dilke, the eminent liberal sta.teamaaij. < Sir Francis Hopwood K.C.8., has retired from tihe post of Permanent Un- * d,ex*-Siecretary for the Colonies. Allegations , of widespread ' political corruption and "graft" "are being made .before the Canadian Royal Cotounisbion . inquiring into Chinese "smuggled' ! immigration! at Vancouver. •Choilera has broken out amoryT Turkish troops at < Hodeideh, which is invested by Araba-an rebels, A Turkish secret court-martial has baniti'ied three democrats for libelling Ministers. It wall be necessary to , ,-jettison much of the cargo of the Eastern, as-hore on the Queensland coast, before she eaji be refloated. There is further proof of the late King Leopold's agreement to permit Germany "to invade Prance through, Belgium. The French' mili'tary autumn iha.nouvres will be on the Oise, on the route of a possible) German invasion throu.gh Belgium. 'The plague in Manchuria has beenpropagated by Chinese pi-rates shipping furs to Vancouver. A vessel 'has been cut in h'alve g by a steam trawler at on the Southern Portuguese coast, ,11 lives being lost.^x^ The plague in Manchuria is declared to be th'e most contagious and virulent in t'he world's history. Serum is without effect when applied to Ma.nchur.ian l plague cases, and recovery is rare. i A fire at Petone thie morning completely destroyed two new six-roomed uncccupied houses. An unconfirmed report says that an explosion has occurred on the Amei'ican gunboat Wheeling, on the Cuban eoast,.