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New Zealand Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 6138, 19 February 1907, Page 1

SUMMARY

The London " Times" says Mr Balfour, in his 6l>eecli on Imperial defence, went further than was necessary. Tho “ Times " declares there might he common consultations to ensure a v\ir.form plan of co-oporation. Tho newspapers generally cc.ament favourably on Mr Balfou.'t speech.. A Butter Bill has been introduced in the British House of Commons. Tho ''Spectator” says that if tho Bri. , . tieli Government grants old-age pensions 0 it will require a tariff that will betray f tho cause of free trade. 1 Mr Llovd George hopes uniform shipJ ping laws will bo adopted throughout 0 tho Empire. g The London "Spectator" approves! Mr e John Burns’s Hollesley labour colony: scheme. y Mr Keir Hardie, speaking at Cambridge, said the Labour party would insist on old-age pensions being granted this year. a If financial considerations prevented f Government action, the xmrty would en- •_ deavoiu- to dissuade workers from acceptli ing unionist promises of pensions in re--0 turn for support for a preferential b tariff. c ; The meeting was a rowdy one, and a a carriage, supposed to be Mr Hardio’Sp was smashed, t Mr Lyttelton denounces tho Imperial Government's action in placing the reS spousibility of the New Hebrides convention on France. Ho declares that colonial objections to the terms of the labour system were not 0 mentioned to the French Government. i. By a collision in tho Bristol Channel, s a stepmor was sunk and fourteen of :. those on board, including tho captain, were drowned. Tho Czar’s final programme for submission to tho Hague Fence Conference does not mention disarmament. Tho Marquis of Clanricarde protests ■ against being treated as a lunatic. He says his rente are lower than a any others in tho part of Ireland in - which his estates are situated. The Irish Home Rule envoys raised t .£22,000 in Australasia. The subsidence of St. Paul’s Cathedral , will be dealt wi'.h os soon as possible. B Extensive whisky-smuggling has been ■ discovered in Ireland. The French Income Tax Bill is very unpopular. It is considered inquisitorial and too Socialistic. The Governor of Baku has been murdered. Count Tolstoy's son has been indicted for treason. Princess Clementine of Saxe-Cpburg is dead. Claims against British fire insurance companies in connection with fhe Kingston earthquake amount to a million and a half sterling. Floods in the town of Bona, in Algeria, have caused many deaths and damage to the extent of a million fronts. Californians are now prepared to ad--1 mit Japanese children to- white school? immediately Congress passes legislation." A secret session of the. United States Senate has decided to support Mr Roosovolt's action regarding tho Congo. The ' ''New York Herald" says Lord Charles Beresford’s objections to the command of the Channel fleet have been satisfied. An electric train fell over an embank - ment in New York. Fifty persons were killed and many injured. A record meeting of 15,000 Progressives is reported from Johannesburg. The Premier of Queensland has no 1 objection to the diverting of the Vancouver service to New Zealand. The late Mr David Murray, of Adelaide, left personalty sworn at £200,579. ■ 1 He bequeathed £IO,OOO to various I charities and public institutions, i A nugget weighing 1460 z was fount! 1 at Poseidon (Vic.). ■ Four more cases of - plague arc re-' > ported from Sydney. > R. Arnst’s sculling in the All-comers'' ! Handicap -was favourably criticised by experts. Two men named Thomas Wallace and! 1 John Baxter were before tbe Stipend!-' j ary Magistrate in Wellington yesterday 1 charged with conspiracy to defraud. 1 Claude Paget, charged with tho murder of Eleanor Pearl Axup, was before . the Magistrate yesterday, and was committod for trial to tho Supremo Court. Patrick Francis Brosnahan was acquitted at the Supreme Court yesterday ' of a charge of extorting money. r The return cricket match M.C.C. T. Wellington ended in, a draw yesterday. The local team were only ten runs behind the visitors on the first innings, and had disposed of five of the latter for forty-eight when play ceased. Dr McArthur yesterday delivered judgment in two important caeca in which ' the Hutt County Council had prosecuted carrying firms for having used the Hutt roads with heavy traffic without first having obtained a license to do so. The position in connection with tho slaughtermen’s strike is that work was resumed yesterday at Potone, but not at Ngahauranga. A deputation from the, TTWington Meat Export Company waited on the Minister for Labonv (Hon. J. A. Millar), to ascertain if the Government would take any steps to relieve -the ‘'strike" or provide workers To take the places of the “strikers." Representatives of several employers* associations accompanied the depnta,' tion. It is understood that the Minister promised to submit to Cabinet tho request that the Government should find a new staff of workers. The London mutton market is weaken, and tendency is downward. Supplies are increasing. There is a good demand for prime quality, but heavy mutton ia dull of sale. The average price ot Canterbury is LJd, and North Island Hd per lb. A deputation waited upon the AcnngPremier vesterday regarding the necespity for providing a new railway station for ‘Wellington. • Tho Minister said fhe necessities of th© case would be met hut it would not be prudent at present to erect a new station. _ Tho deputation also referred to To Aro railway station.. Mr Hali-. Tones did not favour the propreal to abolish the service between Thomdon and Te Aro. Tbe beat course would be to reduce the sen-ice, and await developments—increase in popula- ■ tion, dock works, etc. The back of the French barque Marguerite Mirabaud, ashore near Milton, has been broken. The owners arc being communicated with regarding disposal of the cargo.