SUMMARY.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 6362, 9 November 1907, Page 1

SUMMARY.

Tho Bank of England discount rate has boon raised to 7 per cor.L. There is widespread satisfaction in. England at. the settlement of the railway dispute, and railway shares have reflected this fooling. : ! The Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants hao resolved to accept ilia agroomont, and urge its members te give ,;j its provisions a''fair trial. ■ The New i Zeal and footballers defeated , ‘' Keighley on Wednesday by "!) points to 7, An Ayrshire "foundry company lately deprived of Admiralty orders for supplying faulty material has boon replaced on the contractois’ list conditionally oh roaldng drastic changes: in constitutiou and management. ■ ' SI. <sourko, Russian Assistant-Minister i for the Interior, has ’been convicted for 1 overstepping his .'Official powers in con- , nection .with, grain l contract 1 scandals,. ' ami dismissed from ofiica. ' "■ •For insuring Cardinal 3terry' del Val ;i I .■■ ' five; parsons I wore soiitcmded at Rome to , . heavy iin<« and imprioonment. ' The ICaisorin will accompany tho German Emperor on his visit to England next"week.'; , ,i• .p 1 >' '.w; An cx-Cabinet 3finistor of Holy is boing prosecuted on charged of corruption. Two bund ml revolutionaries have been > arrested at Warsaw, in Poland,, and im- ■ portant documents and arms sfeissed. , : ;';p A Butch Ifinister of State, Horr Van Panbuy,i, bis brother, and their wives, wore precipitated into a canal while driving in a’fog. All were drowned. At tho trial of Herr Brand in Berlin for libelling'Prince Endow, a souration wns fcaitscd bv the' appearpnen of Prince, ‘i;,;., Eulcnburg, who denied that ho was ba* hind lin-.ml. 'I-: Prince Endow Indignantly i-dpblled tflsi aspersions' cast irpon him in |;tho stet*i' : . ments published by Brand. . Tho Japanese Minister of Voreign Affaire states that . relations with -thA 1 United States are cordial. ■ ,■ " , lie expects : tho , immigration question to bo settled without friction, as Japan proposed- to control immigration Jo AYheriou .in a manner oanforming with; : .the lather’s ; wished. ; '.j . , : The amount of gold, already imported and -arriving nirt' 1 tho- Unitedf.Stntwivi* I'-.ruvij nearly X>8,000,000/; - ? . 1 : H ,At the san iErnn cisco!. mimicipa Ipl w-.y : lions an ovonvhclming vote was 1 recorded ; \ ;v : ;.y| in favour of the Mn.vor; fEr l Taylor) nil d, > / a , v'J?ood. l goverimeat'-tidcot,'’' .Iiv)';; Tlio duty on blankets .under tho Ac--, . tr.iJiaJi tariff haii been reduced from 2G J; to‘ So per cent., with 20 per cent, plpfor-. euccJij I "_|j. .-.iv,'.j I;' 'if'." Earth tremors have been i/felt'-fro- 1 qnon.tly,,, ht ; Thursday Island during the 1 .? iffl paft/.fprtoight,:';' .....JiS;' '■P'' i'';')lt Rich gold has been discovered near 1 Maryborough, in Victoria. '; : i; ■'vy"'.; "JS 1 - Tho find wasVmade'ibn. ltdbonrne :oupr';; ■: -w day, and . was;named" "Apologue,” iu 1 honour of the winner of tho Cup. : Mr John Norton was removed from 1 .: - 'i!' the Now"- South Walcn Assembly for jifi making oflonßive, remarks concerning thb> '; ji’tv chairman during a debate on tho toxin- y e lion proposals. Tlio London and Westminster Bank . has announced its willingness to munngtt Tasmanian loans oh tho Bamo terms as!; I- I;; apply to Victorian loans. ;■ ,, 1 Tlio Public Works Statement was sub* mitted to Parliament lost evening, ■ It announces tho : .intention of: fih-v : .s ■; Government to toko over the Wolling-ton-Manawatu railway in about a year.