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New Zealand Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 6315, 16 September 1907, Page 1

SUMMARY.

The King's proclamation declaring? New Zealand a dominion was publicly recited from the steps of the London Royal Exchange by Colonel Kearns, Common ■ Crier. The more ■ • important sections of the new Australian tariff were published in the London tf '* last iriday. Several London newspapers comment* rather unfavourably on the tariff in respect to its probable effect on British goods. - The South African cricketers ' have completed their tour in England.. They won twenty-one games, lost tour,- apd six were drawn. > f(| .v.;- , The Rov. I F. B. Meyer, London, has a scheme to unite- all the Free Churches of the Empire in one Free Church Federation. • * . , ‘ \ After conducting a national ministry mission in the United Kingdom, Denmark, and Germany, Mr Meyer visits South Africa, Australasia, and Canada. The steamer Patroclus, with a general cargo from Australia, is ashore at Portland Island, off the coast of Dorsetshire There is fifteen feet of ; water in the • forehold of the vessel, and it is feared she will become a. total wreck. Edward John Morris, a London 'picture dealer, recently convicted of receiving stolen goods, has now. been found guilty of a similar charge arising out of the* famous Wertheimer robbery last Feb* ruary. . w ' Morris has been sentenced to . seven years’ imprisonment, Sir Thomas Lipton is challenging for the America Cup yachting contest—to take place in. September, 1808, - Lord Ai den ham, head of Antony Gibb# and Co.; merchants, London, is dead. He was in his eighty-ninth year., ' The Lusitania arrived at Sandy yHook from Queenstown in - record time, and • met i with a tremendous- reception. Her average rate of speed Was just over twenty-three'knots, and her total cool consumption less than a thousand tons. The Gape’ Colony Legislative Council again blocked supply by resolving, when an Appropriation Bill. was under discussion, that the chairman' leave the chair, , ; ■ ‘ Japanese and Chinese have been ordered .bo quit Bellingham,, in. Washington State, where noting occurred the other day. It-is said that an agreement is likely to be made, limiting Japanese immigrant# to Canada, to five hundred annually. Raisuli, - the Moroccan brigand, has returned Kaid Sir Horry McLean’s tent and private effects. The Calcutta agitator Chandra Pal has been sent to prison for six months. . ■ i There have been numerous assaults on Europeans in Eastern. Bengal. * Hundreds witnessed . the assaults,. yet -the police were unable to procure evidence. Italy and the Argentine have entered into a treaty of general arbitration. Exceptions; include cases -affecting provisions of constitution or questions of nationality. ■ " * .Tt is reported from Christiania that Hr Wellman, ’ after one ascent, was compelled to’ abandon] his balloon, and returned to Tromsoe. • While a watchman was going the rounds of the Queensland National Bank at Brisbane he discovered a man hiding in the bank The latter , seised the watchman;, but after a struggle the watchman got his revolver free and shot the intruder in the temple. The man was "taken to the hospital. - The steamer Monowai, which should have reached Sydney last Tuesday from Wellington, was towed into Sydney yesterday, , The Mokoia found the Monowai on Thursday. The latter lost her rudder cm Tuesday. After many difficulties,« owing to the heavy sea. the crippled vessel was got in to>, and reached port safely. The steamer Wanimoo, which loft on Saturday night for New* oaetle. with the object of searching for the Monowai ©n route,. went ashore at Capo Farewell lost night. « i She is in a comparatively sheltered, position, and in smooth water, though a hard southerly wind prevailed last night. The Harare®, is proceeding to Cape Farewell to endeavour to tow the Warnmoo off. In representative Rugby matches on Saturday Canterbury beat Wellington, Auckland defeated Wanganui, and Otago defeated Southland. The representative hockey match Wei lington v. Canterbury 'drawn. At the golf championship meeting on Saturday, A. Duncan and Lusk were winners in the semi-final of the champion* ship of New Zealand.