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New Zealand Times, Volume XXX, Issue 6679, 30 November 1908, Page 1

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Tho House of Lords, rejected the Licencing Hill by 272 to 9lj. Lord Loreburn says this is a victory for tho traxio over the community, for wrong over riylit. The London butter market is weak owing to tho mild weathor. On Saturday Inst Now Zealand butter wns down to 112 s. At tho Royal Horticultural Society’s Exhibition, London, New Zealand secured silver and bronze medals for exhibits, whilst other medals were awarded the exhibits of local manufactories. Bishop Nevill, of Xhinodin, has left London for Now Zealand. Mr Haldane, British Minister for War, says that tho situation between Lords and Commons over tho Licensing Bill is serious, but tho licensing question had como to stay until settled. Leif Jones, temperance orator and M. 8., says that if thu Bill was rejected tho Commons would only return the tornporunco clausiv; to tup .Lords aria deal with tho financial ones themselves. Tho Primate and Lord Halsbury approve! of the suggestion of a Temperance kill. Tho Tongariro (New Zealand Shipping Company) collided witli the steamer Brnmiawrog oil" Dover, and was hadip damaged forward. Tho Tongariro is to return to London for repairs. The Now Zealand Shipping Company in advised that nobody was injured. Sir Christopher Furniss declares that during the past year North-east coast shipbuilding workers lost .£850,000 by litnkus. Tho American Ambassador in. London stated at a banquet that recent changes in China involved no peril to America's friendship with that country. Bulgaria is willing to pay JM,400,000 tor the Oriental Railway she seized, and for tho capitalisation of thus Eoumelian tribute. Turkey assures Austria that she is doing all legally possible to counteract tho uoycott of Austrian goods aud shipping. There is less prospect of, a European Conference bcMng held in the near tuturo over the Balkans. The organ of the Liberal party in Berlin accuses Britain of prompting the Turkish boycott of Austrian goods. The Australian Rugby footballers (the "Wallabies") defeated Somerset by 8 points to ml. In an interview between the Austrian Minister of Foreign Affairs and the Turkish Charge d’Aftoires at Vienna, the former stated that Austria desired friendship but could also be an enemy. Tho Minister added that if the Porte assumed a hostile attitude towards Austria it would find itself always confronted by him. Tho London "Times” says Baron Aw enthai’s language is menacing to peace. Austria has asked Franca to exert her friendly ollices at Stamboul to terminate tho boycott of Austrian goods. M. Pichon has replied that France must abstain irom intervention, Germany’s Amy Estimates show a deDrdase of a million, stei ling, Montenegro has mounted a .series of heavy batteries on Mount Looohet, dominuting Cattaro, Lamphere, charged with murder and arson at La Porte, Indiana, has received nn indeterminate sentence of from two to twenty years imprisonment. There is now reasonable probability that tho work of the Closer Union Convention sitting at Capetown will be successful. . An explosion in a mine at Mariana caused two himdored and eighty-five men. to be entombed. ' It is feared that all these unfortunate miners have been suffocated. In tho Davis Cup competition at Melbourne on Saturday! Wilding and Brookes (Australasia) defeated Alexander mid Wright (America). The contest aroused intense excitement, and was witnessed by four thousand people. The Sydney to Cowra bicycle road race was won by Darley in 6hr 48min. The distance is about one hundred miles. / . Under Protection, according to tho statement of the Federal Prime Minister. 21,000 employees wore added to Australian industries last year. Mr Fisher promises Australian manu. lecturers every protection they require to secure the whole of file Commonwealth trade. Mr Dcakin says the Labour Ministry will not bo able to go far if they departed from what he, as Prime Minister, brought in. The bodies of a man and a woman have been found in tho shaft of a disused mine at Rushworth (Victoria). A man named Mather married eleven months, shot his wife dead at Paddington, Sydney, and then turned the weapon on himself. Ho is reported to bo dying. The South Australian Legislative Assembly has authorised the purchase of a State coal mine in New South Wales. ■ Tile keeper of the Althorne lighthouse {New South Wales) accidentally shot himself. A second keeper was also ■ severely injured two days later by tho bursting of a rocket. It is estimated that Queensland’s sugar crop will bo short by 30,000 tons. The Arawa, from London to Wellington, arrived at Hobart yesterday— four days late. She was delayed through, losing her starboard propeller on November 13th. The Takapuna Jockey Club held races at Takapuna on Saturday. A man giving tho name of Thomas Kelly was arrested at Dargaville on a charge of attempting to murder Captain Mewitt, on board the Nuumai. Accused, it is said, shot the captain in tho back with a small revolver. The bullet has not yet been removed. The wound is not considered serious. At Dunedin on Saturday the yuan Webster was found not guilty of attempting to murder George Hubbard. Nineteen barrels of oil were obtained in one week from a Taranaki well.