SUMMARY.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 6225, 3 June 1907, Page 1

SUMMARY.

The Criminal Appeal Bill has boon read a second time in the House of Commons. At a 1 ’ Unionist demonstration in .York Lord Milner described South Africa as a lightning conductor for the mischievous activities of Radical fanatics. He quoted statements showing that the Transvaal is in a state of grave material depression, which he attributed to reckless electoral agitation in Great Britain, Lord Milner contended that Great Britain had transferred the Transvaal to a purely racial party, and laid the foundations of Dutch ascendancy from Capetown to the Limpopo river. Nonconformist members of the. House of Commons have passed n sweeping rose* lution demanding that the Government at once proceed with Mr McKenna's Education Bill.

They also demanded the passing of a , more aggressive Education Bill than Mr BirrolTs before the end of the present Parliament. , Tho "Standard" says that the Labour ] party will demand an autumn session ci I tho British Parliament. Sir H. Campbell-Bannerman denies that Sir Antony Macdonnoll desires to retire. : Mir Chamberlain is returning to Lem- | don from the Riviera. Lord Cromer has 'been awarded the Albert Medal by the Society of Arts. • Tho Italian Rodons, alias Smith, hoe • been sentenced to seven years' imprison* i ment for stealing tho Wertheimer jewels. John Langford Crump, who shot Mrs , Crump, a widow, at Southsea recently, has been committed for trial. The Northern Rugby Union hoe com- : pleted arrangements for twenty-seven matches with the proposed professional ! team from New Zealand. Karl Blind, the famous German revolutionist and author, is dead. Tho Lord Mayor of London and fifty- , three sheriffs, aldermen and others are to bo entertained at Berlin. The British committee studying foreign municipal institutions has been warmly welcomed "in Germany. Duke Johann Albrecht, of Mecklen-burg-Schwerin, has been elected Regent of Brunswick. By a lire at a private; residence at Now Jersey (U.S.A.) five persons were burnt to death. - Tho French cruiser Chanzy, which went ashore on an island off tho Chinese coast, has been abandoned. It is stated that tho end of the famine in China is approaching. Tho Conference of Australian State Premiers has reiterated iie decision that the time ,is not ripe for the Commonwealth to take over the States' debts. Victoria and South Australia dissented,In the discussion of the question, Mr CarrAithers complained of tho grabbing spirit of the London underwriters. 11c said London was to-day “tho rottenectmoney market in the world." Tho Conference resolved to appoint, a competent person to examine, measures? introduced in. the Commonwealth Parliament, and to advise tho States whether their ritrhts are infringed. ’

' tiieir rignrs are mirmgea. [ The trustees of "The Sportsman" Cup have decided that George Towns l has forfeited the trophy in not complying with the conditions .with respect to Barry's challenge. The strikers at the Cobar mines (N.S.W.) resume work to-day under an agreement that will last for two years. A steamer has arrived at Newcastle : from Hongkong with the third engineer suffering from smallpox. . At Auckland on Saturday the Great Northern Hurdles was won by Mcrriwai. Tlie winter meeting of the Dunedin Jockey Club opened on Saturday. Several judgments wore given by tine Arbitration Court at Wellington on Saturday. The Hon. J. A. Millar thinks that a Board of Commerce should bo sot up to report whenever it became apparent that undue priccw were being charged for the commodities of lifo. / The Arbitration Act, added Mr Millar, is to be amended by the creation of provincial Boards of Wages. The foundation-stone of the now Wellington Garrison Hall in Bucjde street was laid by Lord Blanket on r Saturday afternoon. Speeches were delivered by the Hons. W. Hall-Joncs and J. Carroll, in addition to Lord Blanket. Saturday's Rugby football matches re* suited in Betone (14) beating Poneke (8), Melrose (IGi beating St. James (5), Oriental (15) defeating Wellington (3), and Athletic (29) beating Victoria Col.lege (nil).