SUMMARY.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 6326, 28 September 1907, Page 1

SUMMARY.

TEo Australasian section of the Lon< don Chamber of Commerce has adopted resolutions protesting strongly against the 'Australian tariff.

The British Parliamentary party which recently visited Switzerland has prepared a report highly praising the Swiss military system. Some features of the system might be studied with advantage, the committee considers, by : tho British auxiliary forces. 1 1 ; ; ,

Welsh tin-plat© makers hare formed a combine, and propose to manufacture their own stool.:

London ** Daily News/ J discussing the Anglo-Russinn Convention, expresses a conviction, that Russia has not abandoned her old aspiration to sccuro a seaport in temperate waters.

Mr Coghlan, New South Wales AgentGeneral, replies to an attack made on, Australia recently by tho London ".Daily News" in regard to encouraging population. ■The says that there haa been a satisfactory increase in the population, and Australia has also contributed to the solutiod of great questions concerning the Empire. ■

Alfred'Land, tried for thO'imirder of an English lady. Miss Lake,; at H«roh, in Germany, last September, has boon acquitted, although in February last he confessed has guilt. A hydro-motor travelled from tho Seine to the Bosphorus, where it was wrecked. Charges of sedition preferred against Arabinda Chose, editor of the Indian newspaper " Bande Mataram," and tho manager have been dismissed on technical grounds, • - • , The French are placing strong fortifications around Casablanca. j Several powerful tribee have decided' to continue the fight ; against the foreigners.. . ’ ■■ ' ■jL.-.J ■ Chinee© ooolics at the Witwatersraud Beep- mine, who are abouti to bo repatriated, have lately shown, a disposition, not .to. snake up ;timo lost through unauthorised absence. ‘ *. Remonstrances by the managers led to a riot, > requiring police intervention. : The Premier of Capo Colony has issued iVi manifesto asking the people to authorise the amendment of the* Constitution to prevent the blocking of sup- ' plies. v Tho * Government- aims at the unification of the South African Colonies and development ol their; resources. Charges of "packing* the Legislative Council, in order to strengthen the Government's position, have been levelled against; General Botha, Premier of the Transvaal.Tho challenge made on ‘behalf of Sir Thomas Lipton for a race for the Am erica Cup has been declined by the New York Club. ' The ‘.refusal to race is baaed on the request for a limitation in the size of tho competing yachts, which would violate the terms'of tho trust. , . In. reply. Sir Thomas Lipton says his challenge was made under a rule established by American yachtsmen, and under, which the advantage lay with them. K. i* stated that the resolution declining the challenge commits tho New York. Club to/ racing, machines.: i The La Rosa / silver mine, in Canada, has been cold to an English syndicate for ton millions *derling. A railway scandal is j'cported from New York, in connection with which payments are alleged to have been made to a prominent politician. The Victorian Premier, speaking on the position ■ created by the Imperial Government's action regarding the Newfoundland fisheries, says it is outside the sphere of interference by other States of the Empire; but if men wero made it should come first from the I Common- 1 wealth.' ,'■ ■ ■ ; '• . The Japanese Consul at Sydney, on the ere of his departure for St, Petersburg, deprecated the "scares" raised by people concerning inunigration and other; mat-; t**rs. He said thjxt though .undoubtedly grave question» wore pending, the real danger lay in the .fact that men and women allowed themselves to be dominated by those who ought to know better. They were apt to lose their heads, and develop ; now' series of difficulties.'; "Those most bitter against the Japaur ! esc," Mr Iwasaki concluded, "were those who knew the least about then." ; : Tho Diocesan Synod at Sydney :has adopted a echem© of co-opcration with other churches in temperance and work among the lapsed masses. ■ A discussion took place in the Federal House yesterday on tho subject of tho shipping combine. The Wanganui Jockey Club's spring meeting concluded yesterday. Serious floods have occurred in tho Manawatu and 1 districts. Railway traffic was disorganised in the Walrarapa owing to slips on tho line. Gales are also reported from various other parts of the'colony. ’The Laud and Income Tax Assessment Bill was further , considered in com' mitteo by the “Mouse of Representatives last evening. The Premier stated in the House of Representatives yesterday that it is not intended to call out the militia. ' An explanation of the case of Mr JA.‘McCullough, who has been suspended from‘the Government service for participation hi politics, was made yester* day by the Premier.