SUMMARY.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 6313, 13 September 1907, Page 1

SUMMARY.

The turbine steamer Lusitania, now crossing the Atlantic, ran 55a knots in the first twenty-four haure. Mr O’Dowd, Nationalist M.P., speaking in County Mayo, advised the people to make it hot for the Government and uhreasonabl© grabbers, thus forcing the Government to recognise that the people would not be subservient tools.

The St. Leger Stakes wna won by Woolwinder.

A British Parliamentary party is visit* in£ ( Switzerland, and inquiring into the military system' in operation there. The Swiss President declared that mili* tary institutions on the basis of the Swiss democracy formed a school for civil virtues, developing patriotic devotion and fidelity to duty. The Goolds, accused of the murder oi Mrs Levin at Monte Carlo, were examined in their villa at Monte 'Carlo, where dramatic scenes were witnessed.

Mrs Goold declared she was innocent* knowing nothing of what happened in the rooms because she fainted.

Goold persisted in saying that his wife assisted him up to the moment the fatal blow was struck.

After the examination crowds pursued the prisoners' carriage in the street, threatening to lynch them, ; ; ’ * Russian authorities deny that a pogrom was carried out ‘at’ Kishineff, "where It was reported yesterday that eighty Jews had been killed by hooligans. A Turkish force is advancing on o number of Persian villages.

Owing to heavy gales preventing tho ascent of Wellman's airship, in which an attempt is to be made to reach the North Pole, it is probable the expedition will be postponed for a year. 1 ■ • Captain Mikkelsen, whose Arctic exploring ship was recently lost, has telegraphed a brief account of work accom- ' pliahed. ,• i

A force of one thousand Arabs was discovered near Casablanca by a French war-balloon party. Matters are now quiet at Vancouver, and Asiatics axe neeuming work. The impending arrival of aoveral rnore shiploads of Orientals is causing some anxiety, to citizens, as there is no work for more. ,

It is reported that the organisers of the Vancouver riots were not Canadians, but came from Washington State. "Tho. Times”, deprecates colonial intolerance toward -Asiatics, as tending to make it more -difficult for a solution of the immigration problem to bo arrived at.

The Newfoundland Premier declares the new modus vivondl on the fisheries question is a disgrace to British diplomacy- '

The weather is reported to be bad along the Australian coast.

The Victorian Premier has made a suggestion, following on the offer by the trustees of the late Mr Wilson, of the "Argus,” to give .£IOO,OOO to build a new hospital, that Mr Syme, of the "Age, ,J should give <£loo,ooo for the same pur< pose.' .'■■■■ I"

If that wer« done, the Premier says, the Government might consider the advisableness of giving a similar amount. The Tasmanian Budget disclosed a re* venue for the past year of .£970,843, and expenditure .£833,800. The Acting Federal Premier denies any knowledge of a i reputed proposal by Franc© to transfer Tahiti to Germany. A protest against the duty imposed on New Zealand blue cod has been made to the Federal Minister for Customs, The New South 1 Wales Premier now estimates the strength of parties in the new Parliament to be—Liberals 52, Labour 30, Independent 8. * At the local option poll twenty-nine electorates voted for continuance and twenty-five for reduction. The wreck of a cutter at Fiji was r& sponsible for the death of the Rev, Bleazard/Methodist minister, and two natives. . , I

The tug TorawMti. left Wellington lasi night to search for the Union Company's steamer Monowai, two days overdue at Sydney from Wellington, Vessels have also been'despatched from. Sydney to look for the missing steamer. The Monowai was seen early on Monday morning about five hundred mile* from Sydney- f The Tariff Bill was further debated it the Hons© of Representatives last night, hud was reported from committee shortly after midnight.