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North Otago Times, 6 September 1906, Page 1

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HOME AND FOREIGNJ ; 'By Elcctrlo Tclcgraph.-Copyrljtjt.) • (Par Press Association,) | ;/.-, Received September 5, at 8 36 a.r/i,Christiania, September 4, • There is the utmost enthusiasm: in Scandinayia at the news of the unprece, dented feat accomplished by Cdpiain Amundsen's expedition aboarji the Gjoa. Voyaging in a westeriy/directidlv and navigating the north-west passage, the vessel has arrived at Cape Nome, Alaska. i ; - v .-Berlin,, Septembej-4.:..-Herr Dernburg, manager of theßank of Commerce and Industry, succeeded the Prince of enburg as acting director of the Colonial'; Department of the German Fbreigjv Office. . ■'-...■' ; ;.:■.;,'

St Petersburg, September 4;'. The Terrorists unsuccessfully af- : tempted to shoot General Stutpih, the popular Governor of Nicolaieff. j ; •.",: Hong .Kong, September 4; A hundred coolies for the Hand jeft: Hong Kong yesterday.' ; .' . ■ •)'■• Capetown, September .4, The Cape Argus commenting on:the Motherland's decision; says'it is'generous, as it has not crippled the -Transvaal with a heavy loan which'would have been tantamount -to making.the mining industry pay the warjndemhity: ordinarily falling on losers. j .''

' London, September 4. The Times' Johannesburg correspondent says the projected four million loan contains a-possible basis of a' really satisfactory arrangement. The details require amendment, especially ;ijr .the direction of-more estended settlement and immigration under the control' of die Imperial Government, with a view to keeping the question out of thfc petty political arena of the Individual States, Received September 5, at 8.50 a.m. London, September 4.

Referring to the cricket rumors, Mr Lacey states that the Marylebone Club has neither asked nor'sounded anybody relative to going to Australia. Owing to an influential request that the Marylebone Club should reconsider !their decision not to send a team this season, the President had summoned a special meeting of the Committee for Friday. Mr Lacey adds that the club's attitude is apparently unchanged and the pros pect of its sending a team this year is no brighter. It is reported that Jackson is being strongly pressed to take out a team, and that several prominent players have been sounded. It is: also repotted that Hay ward is willing to go,

Numerous deaths have occurred as a result of heat in the* United Kingdom and abroad. '; There is a great scarcity of milk in London. ".>%-. ■'"' --*-.. 'I ~

. The Parliamentary Committee advise the Trade Union Congress to be lio longer content to fight (or a living wage, but to demand a higher standard of ■iving in order that their families may participate in all the good things which make life bright, happy and comfortable Received September 5, at 8.58 a.m. Calcutta, September 4.

There is excitement in India owing to the crowning of Calcutta with regal honors on the surrender of Nath Banerjue, leader of the agitation against the partition of Bengal. The native press, condemn the proceeding. London, September 4. Mr KeirHardie, speaking at Blackburn, sympathised with the Russian bomb throwers. "I hbpe|" he said, "my comrades will make no half job of the 1 usinesj. The day of Kings, Czars, and Emperors is past." Paris, September 4. Maxim Gorki has urgently appealed 10' the French \\o:kmen to supply shot and shell 'lo assista general' rising in Russia.