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North Otago Times, 3 November 1906, Page 2

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Received Nov. 2, at 9.20 p.in. Berlin, Nov. 2. Ernest Schoenbeiß, labor leader, was acquitted of libelling Dr Leuluutz, director of the Eppendorf State Hospital at Hamburg. Evidence was Riven bv patients that corpses were sold systematically to 'medical colleagues after they had been nailed down in the nreseiice of relatives. The coffins were filled with' sand, Dr Lcnhartz declared that all was done in the interests of science, St. Petersburg. Nov. 2. M, Krustalofi, president of the Russian Workmen's Council, and fourteen colleagues, have been exiled to Siberia, with the loss of civil lights, London, Nov, 2. Mr Noel Buxton visited mountain villages in Macedonia, and saw the wounded living after incendiarism and pillatrinc by the Turks and Greeks. Ho 'declares that the horrors are regularly described bv European officers, hut their reports are not . published, He claims that the only remedy for the present farce will be to give them the authority Heretofore non-existenl In the House of Commons, Mr Haldane, replying to Mr Henniker-Hea-ton, said it was not intended to publish Colonel Hobbs' report on the Chicago meat, yards. It was tinder consideration by the various Government departments. No statement was possible regarding it until a final decision was reached. 'About 3} million pounds weight of American tin-

ncd meat was now, held by the army, and its cost was £BO.OOO sterling. There Was no present intention of sending an officer to report on the Australian tinned meat industry. Received Nov. 2, at 10.23 iuii. London, Nov. 2. In the House of Lords the Bishop of Oxford's amendment in the Education Bill to allow distinctive instruction and ordinary jacihties » l school daily was adopted by 141 to 49 Lord Crewe ominously intimated ithiit this entirely altered tho character of the Bill. . ~ There were, stormy scenes in the House of Commons over Viscount CVtlcreagh's motion that the Trade Disputes Bill do not apply to Ireland. The motion was negatived by 230 to 4. Mr S. H. Butcher declared that the Bill facilitated boycotting and intimidation, as when under the Land League's baneful tyranny, the living were refused the necessaries of life and the dead were denied coffins. Mr' W. Delany : "It is a slander." ! Mr Flynn : " It is a lie." The interi jeetions were withdrawn under the ' Speaker's direction Received Nov. 2 at 10.34 p.m. St. Petersburg. Nov. 2. ■The Czar and family have returned , to Tsarskoeselo. ■ • . Berlin, Nov. 2. ' Herr Deruburg, Director of the Co- " lonial Department in the German l<o--1 rc'gii Office, predicts that it will be 1 necessary to make the German colo- ' nies in South-west Africa an annual grant of a million and a half ster- ■ ling for a decade, besides the cost of c railway extension. London, Nov. 2. 3 Mr Lloyd George proposes a new r amendment in the Shipping Bill v to - give the Board of Trade full powers i over marine superintendents and slnp- ' ping officers, and thus control the ret gulations. The shipping interests threaten strenuously to oppose, this.