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New Zealand Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 6314, 14 September 1907, Page 1

SUMMARY.

A committee of investigation has been formed in England to consider the best means of preventing the presence ol vegetable matter in wool. C. M. Daniels, the New York swimmer. put up a record for 150 yards at Liverpool. * The barque Dundonald, from Sydney to Falmouth, is overdue. 0n evening the Lusitania was 135 miles east of - Nantucket, a port of entry in Massachusetts. The White Star Line is having a new steamer built which will eclipse any existing vessel in size. She will be 840 ft long and -10,000 tons harden. A London syndicate has been formed V) exploit a sunken Turkish fleet at Aavarino, for the recovery of treasure. A Reuter message confirms the news that panic-stricken- Jews have arrived cit the Pruth river from Kiehmefi: and Odessa. . . A bequest of .£BO,OOO has been made in favour of Yale University by the late My Archibald Blount, of' Herefordshire. I It is stated that Mr Frederick Weyerhaeuser, the American "Lumber King/ - { will in a few yea.-'s possess a fortunt much larger than Mr J, D. Rockefeller's. The Pacific Coast anti-Asiatic riots are attributed by the New York Chamber of Commerce to the work 1 of professional agitators. Their object is considered to be the maintenance of a shortage of labour and high wages. / A Japanese Agent, interviewed at Ottawa, stated that Japan would not make an international incident out of the Vancouver riots. The Government would merely demand payment of damages to individual sufferers. Another sharp fight is reported from Casablanca. 1 French troops surprised a large body of Arabs and put them to flight. The French Premier regards Genera) Drude's operations as being excellently conceived and carried out. A mall runner was "held up” by an armed party of natives in Zululand* but escaped after wounding one of his assailants. r ln the Natal Assembly the second reading has been carried of a Land Bill taxing unimproved land values. An unusual political situation has arisen,in Capo Colony. The Legislative Council, during a discussion on the Appropriation Bill in committee, resolved that the chairman leave the chair, thus blocking supply. The New* Zealand professional Rugby team played a match with a Coylon team at Colombo, and won by 33 to 6. The Victorian Assembly has negatived a motion to rednee the State Governor's salary from ,£SOOO to £2OOO. Missionaries complain that the British Resident at the New Hebrides is un/ fair in his treatment of the natives. A boy fell down a disused shaft at Broken Hill and was not discovered for five days. He now lies in a critical state is hospital. A motion for secession from the Corn* monwealth is being considered in the Queensland Parliament. The Premier opposes the suggestion. . A meeting of West Australians In London adopted a resolution viewing the Federal tariff with alarm, and according with the recent protests made in the State.' It is stated there are 4000 Japanese in. Australia, chiefly in the north. ‘ - The Devon port Forty Company was fined £5 and costs at Auckland yesterday for hot adhering to its time-table, the. steamer Kestrel having been seven minutes behind schedule time. On a charge of allowing the Takapuna to ply for ferry passengers without being licensed to do eo, the Ferry Company was fined £lO and costs. No news has yet been received of the ilonowai, now four -days overdue at Sydney from Wellington. The Largo Law arrived at Wellington from Newcastle yesterday, and the Victoria reached Sydney from Auckland* but neither vessel sighted, the missing steamer. .