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New Zealand Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 6178, 9 April 1907, Page 1

SUMMARY

King Edward and Queen Alexandrahave arrived at Toulon. King Edward and his suite afterwards visited the battleship Jena, on which the recent'ox--plosion occurred. The National Service League has issued a manifesto recommending Mr Haldane not to wait for a crisis before giving territorials six months' training. Bart of the steamer Suevic has boondrydocked. Lord Elgin has decided not to publish tu© documents relating to Sir A. J. Swettenham's resignation of the Governorship of Jamaica. A minority of French civil servants is claiming a right to form trade unions and strike. The Premier, in refusing this application, stated that to accede to it would break the contract between the State and the servants. Hamburg dock strikers threaten to blow up vessels on which English ironunionists are quartered. Nineteen women have been elected to the Finnish Parliament. Niue of them are Social Democrats, the largest parly in Ihe House. At the municipal elections at Odessa the Union -of Russian People secured sixiy-eoven out of seventy-two seats. Jews are greatly alarmed, fearing * massacre. Seventy-nine ox-members of the battleship Potemkin have been arrested in Roumania. They declared that Roumanian army officers were responsible for the recent peasant risings. Unrest is felt in Egypt. Europeans in Cairo highly commend the report of Lord Cromer, whose proposals are nlep -supported by many nalive journal©. \ Japan is ordering’in England a 21,000 ton battleship, to cost .£2,250,000. ' A steamer carrying sixty passengers caught fire in Hudson River, New Yorkr Steaming full-speed ahead she rushed into a private dock, and all the passem gers were saved. Hr Peter Widener, tramway magnate, offers two millions sterling to found an art gallery at Philadelphia. t Air Andrew Carnegie has given a fur* ther sum of .£1,200,000 to tne Carnegie Institute, for technical instruction to sons and daughters of millowuers. Hrs Eddy, the Christian Scientist, line appointed three trustees of her fortune, in the hope of defeating her relatives. ' There were 876 unauthorised arrivals of Asiatics in the Transvaal last year. IfOrd' Elgin ways the British Government is not able to arrange for separate representation of Australian States at the Imperial Conference, owing to the States having surrendered to the Commonwealth somo of the most distinctive attributes of self-government. The most important subjects to be discussed at the conference are now the business of the Commonwealth alone. The Premier of New South. Wales com tends that there are several 1 Important matters before the Conference more of State interest than of Federal. The States, also, he says, have enormous financial dealings with the centre of the Empire, and their finances ore more of an Imperial question than those of the Commonwealth. A. number of buildings in the town of Bairnsdale, Victoria, were severely damag* ed by a terrific cyclone. A man was electrocuted yesterday by falling across a live wire at the Sydney electric lighting station. . Cabinet has decided not to establish ♦ leper station on Kapiti Island. Forty-six of the Gisborn© slaughtermen who struck work have been fined ,£5 each. The report of the Meikle Commission is published this morning. Their Honors Justice Edwards and Cooper deal exhaustively with the case. A young man wag drowned in bathe ah Dunedin through - being seized with an epileptic fit whilst swimming. The evidence at the inquest showed that deceased had gone into a hot bath - immediately after a heavy meal, and this had caused the fit. At the Canterbury Ccmreing Club's mooting at Christchurch yesterday the Waterloo Cup was won by Lord Cardigan, Laburnum being runner-up. Heavy damage was caused by water in a fire in. the Royal Insurance Buildings* .Auckland. Two firemen were overcome, by smoke and had to be rescued, but are now progressing favourably. Mr D.' Robertson has been appointed to succeed the late Mr William. Gray as secretary of the Post and Telegraph Department. A number of cases of breaches of awards were dealt with by the Arbitration Court at Auckland yesterday. Mr R. W. Holmes succeeds the late Mr P. d. Hay as Eugineer-in-Chief for' the colony.