SUMMARY.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXX, Issue 6450, 22 February 1908, Page 1

SUMMARY.

Tho Coal Minos Right Hours Bill has boon road a first lime in tho Jlouko of Commons.

Engineers employed in tho shipbuilding yards in north-oast England have striH'k, and a. complete cessation of work j., threatened, which will affect 80,000

Fifteen thousand unemployed are rioting i/i Sunderland, and troops have been (t nl, secretly to the town at Die request of tin; municipal authorities. Colonel Thomas F. Kelly, a noted Fenian, is dead.

A Napier car established now records on the Hrooklamis course, doing 5150 miles, at an average of 85 miles an hour.

At (bo meeting of creditors of Wincolt. Cooper and Company, Australian shipping agents, held in London, it was renorled that unsecured liabilities totalled <£loo,ooo, contingent debts =£200,000, uud (ho assets =£lß,ooo. The company is to bo wound up. General Stoessol has boon sentenced to death for the surrender of Port Arthur, but the court-martial recommends tho Czar to commute tho sentence to ten years' imprisonment in a fortress. The Russian Government has submitted to. tho Duma alternative Naval Estimates. One proposes tho expenditure of <£10,000,000, spread- over four years, and tho second .£200,000,000 spread' over ton years. Tho trial of Lieutenant Ullmo, charged with selling French naval plans, is proceeding. In the Reichstag, Herr Dernberg stated that it was never proposed to transport to German colonies in tho Pacific Ocean criminals under sentence. Tho Mayor of a Spanish town was shot by masked men who entered the Council chamber. . The British garrison in South Africa is bo reduced from 10,350 men to Fifteen hundred Zulu rebels have been released. Orders have been given for the release of two Japanese imprisoned under the recently enacted British Columbian immigration law, Tho American Ambassador to England ridicules the sensational stories in tho newspapers, and says there is not the flightest chance of war between the United States and Japan. An unusual number of Japanese are reported to bo leaving California for JV?* no i A laviri ff been ‘‘recalled by tho alikudo. Tho United States Senate has ratified the arbitration treaty with France. President Roosevelt has written to the Inter-State Commerce Commission relative to the importance of limiting the hours of railway employees. The New York police think that Hyne, recently convicted in England for defrauding a woman whom ho had married, is identical with a notorious bigamist named Witzhoff. The United States fleet baa arrived at Callao. - It is stated that the visitors' gallery on the Wall street Exchange has been closed owing to many prominent financiers receiving threatening letters, and tliat a group of anarchists intended bo hurl a bomb on to the floor of the Exchange. The city is placarded with bills urging the wholesale slaughter of financiers, and the unemployed are advised to march to VVall street, whoso criminal gambling is alleged to be causing the proletariat misery.

Tho Australian Senate bias raised the general duty on blankets from 20 to 30 per,cent., and increased the duty on flannels against tho United Kingdom from- 30 to 25 per cent. Tho fifth test orickot match was commenced at Sydney yesterday. Australia batted first on a wet wicket, and tho innings yielded 137 runs. Tho Englishmen, have lost one wicket for 110.

Tho New South Wales Government is to be asked to make a test of the microbe known as "yalgogrin,” which is claimed to bo as effective against rabbits as tho Danysz virus. The Sydney* City Council has asked tho Premier to appoint a Jtoyal Commission to consider the question of remodelling the city, since the cost is too much for tho Council.

Repairs to the Norwegian steamer Phode Fagelnnd, which went ashore on the Cro mil la Beach cm the voyage from Adelaide to Sydney, will cost just under £IB,OOO,

The Melbourne “Age” and “Argus” were prosecuted for publishing certain racing news in contravention of the Gaming Act, but the charges were withdrawn on an undertaking, being given that the offence would not bo repeated. A young man named Smith and his wife were .sentenced at Brisbane to five years' imprisonment for manslaughter in connection with the death of their two-yoar-olcl child through inhuman treatment.

In the Australian swimming champdonfchips at Perth, Beaurepairo defeated ITcaly in the 440 yards. Beaurepairo is to go Homo to compote at the Olympic paries.