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New Zealand Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 6176, 6 April 1907, Page 1

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The Navigation Conference resumed in London on Thursday. Sir William Lyu© replied 1o objections made by shipowners to difficulties arising from want of uniformity iu shipping legislation. Ho emphasised Australia’s desire to give British owners preference against foreign-* Russia proposes that The Hague Peace Conference open on Juno 15. Sli© declines to insert in the official programme the question of the limitation of armaments or the collection of public debts by force. Several Governments, including Bib tain, Japan, Germany, and Russia, re* serve the right to abstain from any dis- . cucsion unlikely to yield practical results. The'French and British New Hebrides Commission will meet in London on'the 25th iust. The British Grand Lodge of Good Templars resolved to prohibit dancing at meetings connected .with the order. . The First Cruiser Squadron has left 1 PL'mouth to represent the Navy at the Jamestown Exhibition, Virginia. Eight bluejackets escaped from tho battleship Mars at Portland. The French covered court doubles lawn tenuis championship was won by Wilding and Ritchie. * 1 Tho mixed doubles was won by Wild--5 ing and Miss Smith. The Russian Minister for Finance has • submitted his Budget to the Luma. Ho remarked that the Government had sufficient means to meet expenditure without the Duma's approval of Urn Budget. Many members consider that the Duma's rights have been infringed, and 5 that the Chamber is being treated as a mere cypher. . The Union of Russian People has ordered its branches to request tue Czar to dissolve the Duma. Reuter reports that dragoons and Cossacks are pouring into St. Petersburg, as they did when the first Duma was dissolved. 1 Lord Cromer’s annual report on Egypt , says Pan-Islamism is a prominent factor in the so-called nationalism of the coun» try. It says all nations having political interests in the East should watch the movement carefully, and declares that the adoption of the Egyption Nationalists* suggestions for the creation of a , Parliamentary institution to control the , finances would revive the worst abuses and lead, to bankruptcy. Lord Cromer ie confident that a useful international Legislative Council will ultimately be established, representing all the inhabitants of Egypt. Mr Smuts, Transvaal Colonial Secretary, state© that the Government is willing to repatriate Boer irreconcilublcs. They must, however, take tho oath of allegiance. Twenty-eight earthquake shocks were felt at fcitiitf, Asia Minor. Throe hundred houses collapsed, and | nineteen hundred buildings were damaged. Eight persons were killed and many injured. / . A slight shock was also felt at Stawcll, Victoria. Tho Right Hon- James Bryce, urges Canadians to suspend judgment on all Questions on which.it wa© alleged British iplomacy had not done its best for Egypt. He believes Canadians are mistaken if they think British diplomacy is indifferent to Canada. Fourteen hundred Salvationist immigrants have left Liverpool for Canada, Harry Thaw, the New York millionaire on trial for the murder of Stanford White, has been declared sane by the Lunacy Commission. An Italian lodging-house in San Francisco was burnt down, seventeen occupants being killed/ and eighteen injured. The New South Wales howling team defeated Victoria by 99 to 92. The Trades and Labour Conference [ was continued at Dunedin yesterday. - A report condemning the Arbitration Act is to be discussed by the confer* I enco to-day. An Auckland 'bus-driver yesterday • was fined JCS and costs for furious ‘ driving and for a breach of the De* fence Act. A peculiar case was heard by ts*> Auckland Supreme Court yesterday, in which it was alleged that certain deed* 1 nad been forged: A man in Christchurch cut a woman'* throat, breaking a razor, and then attempted to kill himself. Vice-Admiral Tomioka and the officer* of the visiting Japanese squadron were tendered a Ministerial reception at Parliament Buildings last evening.