SUMMARY.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 6384, 5 December 1907, Page 1

SUMMARY.

The Now Zealand High Commissioned thinks there i« an excellent prospect o$ the establishment of the "All-Red* route.

A naval base for one hundred andj twelve* warships is to lie established at! the Firth of Forth. . ' :j Mr Ginnell, M.P., considers that driving in Ireland should bo pursued' with vigour, and the ‘''Westminster', Gczotio" urges that ho and other M.P.'h inciting- the people to crime should bo' - . ■ arrested. . , : i

Germany io reported to bo anxioua to > Bottle the claim made by Messrs Burns* I Philp, and* Co,, in connection with restriction. of trade at the Marshall Islands. - i:=T

The British Foreign Minister i« p oring the question, of arbitration on. claims made by Germany relating to the ' Boer war. A train smash at Forth Junction, Tail Vale, resulted in injuries to passengers. id.;- ■■ j"" :;!^i

The French 1 military airship. La Pa* brief which broke adrift; from Verdun," hasi been seen above Glasgow.: The New Zealand footballers in England are warned by '‘The- Times" they should bo careful to keep dn' , ''go^t :!i V''i'iji' condition. .■

It is hinted that the financial success of the tour Rooms to have douxrralmed ; Romo members of ; the team. : . f

The statement is ' made that some' of ! v|/1 • the New Zealanders mil probably accept •' engagements Ndrtjiom Union teams, 1 ; The Cfcar declares his belief in the sentiments expressed’ in the address pro- . 'ik eented by the Duma. Two men, one disguised ne A woman, : attempted to rob a farm at Sosnowicn, in Poland, g but wore both killed by the farmer's wife, m

The trial of the Goolds for the murder 1 of Mrs Levin at Monte Carlo has opened. The Belgian .Congo annexation treaty has been signed; ; i ; ' lirk

A statue erected to the memory of Gonoral Nicholson at Delhi has betn dc- '• f£lOOd, rr

Twenty sappers concerned in. the recent Vladivostok mutiny have been, son* ten cod. to ho shoL ;

■ d Nearly troops ara taking - part in the operations against. Diui'zulu in Zuhiland. • -j

, Considerable unreefc prcvials among all natures in Natal, and' it j/i estimated that the Zulus* fighting strength la thirty thousand. •' ’ . *

Tho Natal militia is being recruited up to, full- strength, and tlio Capo Gov- ! eminent is placing a force in Griqua- ' land. ; .

. The United States Congress has opened. President Roosevelt's Message contains reference to fifty subjects requiring attention.: .■

It urges Federal control of intor-Stcto business, and tho establishment of an emergency currency to be issued under a heavy tax. .. ■ * ■ . v American financaore advocate tho, : establish meat of a control Government' bank to handle Government finance*,: qpd to possess tho solo right to issue bank-notes. < Gold to tho value? of 231 millions sterling were imported into tho United States from Great Britain during thoi recent crisis, i Tho C.3?.H. : liner Mount Temple has been wrecked near Iron Bound Island, in Maine.

The disaster occurred during a enow* storm, and 600 passengers wore lauded by means .of baskets. * Twenty-on© miners, rescued from the Naomi mine, Pennsylvania, died after reaching the'surface, from the effect of the fumes from tho explosion. Reductions in tho Federal tariff on glassware have been, carried, tho Gov* eminent being’defeated three times. The Victorian wheat yield is estimated at over 12,000,000 bushels, leaving a sur* plus of about 4,000,000 bushels. Twenty-four hotels are to .bo closed in the Melbourne metropolitan area. ; j In a tribal fight among aboriginals tiv West Australia one black was killed and i two injured.