SUMMARY.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 6251, 3 July 1907, Page 1

SUMMARY.

Tho Tariff Commission's report on the glass trade skews that twenty-seven firms, employing over IUOO hands, ceased work in the Tyne and Wear districts, though they had raw materials at their doors, through foreigners having a iirotected market besides. the free British market. . * .

“The Times" strongly condemns the manifesto issued by the Labour member? of tho House of Commons. A great swindle carried out by two women and a negro is revealed by the “Daily Express." These threo persons worked London * for year© with a project, carried outj in the name of charity, for developing 52,000 square miles of - land in Madagascar supposed to carry timber, gold, precious stones, and guma. The concession of this land was officially disavowed by ; the French Government. Every, investor was sworn to secrecy. 1 ' ' ■■ ■ One of the women, Mrs- Elizabeth Horne, nosed as a daughter of the Late* Bishop Cowie, of Auckland, Tho British revenue for the June quarter amounted to ■ £32,650,000. Mr Kelly, the Galway Magistrate who recently made an inflammatory speech, has been committed for trial, ball be- : ing allowed. Several balloons which ascended for a race from Banelagh to London, during a heavy thunderstorm, narrowly escapeo accident. One aeronaut received an electric shock. The right of belligerent States to transform merchantmen into warships has been acknowledged at The Hague Peace Convention, but several Powers, Including Britain, are trying to define conditions of transformation and procedure. l It is stated that the press and the pub* lie of India are indignant at the terms of the new mail contract between Britain and India. ’ A Virginian jury has acquitted on exJudgo for killing his daughter's betrayer;. Twenty Japanese sea poachers at tho ; Pribylofi Islands were captured by a United States cutter. The Commonwealth Parliament wil) be opened to-day-Wheat has advanced in price at Syd- . ney, Melbourne, and Adelaide, in sympathy with tho tone of the London and American markets. The New South Wales Parliament was opened yesterday. No important measures are to be taken, as there will be a general election in August. A tragedy occurred yesterday at Hillston (New South Wales). A mannamed Whatley shot a woman- named Hussey in the breast. ; ; ’ On being told the woman was likely to die, Whatley blew out his own brains. It was believed last night that the woman would recover. x ; i The conference of employers and union delegates sat again. l atr Sydney yesterday to endeavour to settle tho coal lumpers' strike. .1 . i» . , . -.i i The employers'. delegates have aeketT for time to allow them to consult othei members of their association regarding the rates of pay demanded. Shipmasters at Newcastle, Now South Wales, are firmly resisting the new loading regulations. The harbour crowd-' *d with vessels. A telephone line between Sydney and Melbourne is to be opened next week. Queensland's revenue for the/past finaneial year was £454,000 in excess of that for the previous year. ’ , i The South Australian Commissioner of Lands has promised that a Government inquiry shall be held regarding an alleged wheat ring. Tasmania's revenue for the year ex-‘ deeded that for the previous year by £70,000.. . . / t . : A special Board of Conciliation has set up at Auckland to hear tho slaughtermen's dispute. Mr Myers, Mayor of Auckland, is chairman. Serious developments in the inquiry into the wreck of tho Kia Ora are foreshadowed by Mr Mays, .who represent# tho Marine Department, ■ A young man named Bradshaw appeared at the Whangarei Police Court yesterday on a# charge of attempting to murder his uncle, A. E. Bisset, at Opuawhanga, on Jnly Ist. It is alleged that Bradshaw, without any provocation, attacked Bisset with a sheath-knife, inflicting such injuries that little hope is held of the latterV recovery. The annual conference of the New Zealand Farmers' Union 1 was opened in Wellington yesterday. . The conference carried a motion that, while considering the Government land proposals crude and ui.workable, it was not opposed to the principle of limitation of areas under some equitable system. ’ : .