SUMMARY.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXX, Issue 6703, 29 December 1908, Page 1

SUMMARY.

Mr llr-nnilicr ffcaion sl.'ifcs that Ilianm.l ha I 111 li-.'lH. llifiif uHy ill ra-il.-iliir the aabla rate I'njju M to Th par

Thi-1. 1 11 - sii.iv, is owin'; to Ilia powerful mi'-rura lioini? liroiifflit to hoar on tincal.b- i iiiriPUMia.s ami i.m'i[;n . HoviTninantß amt also to tiia aaumi oi’ Ilia Imperial (.lovai iimaul in n-K-ml to the conIbtruation of BUte-OKiied cablet..

Tho jiunihar of paupers ill London I; 130.5 W, the lilrlkvl for tliirty-eiiflil years

■ The axpi uditura on poor iciici' readied ■jtjctsr

tor Hu. (irst Him- in tlia history of tlio irifitit at ion, Lloyd's silver madid has Loan ha”-,!owed on a rvoililm.

The '.01111:111 tea lam niaiirdad Hie medal to Kiikv slau-ardasu on board of many drab patk-ciiK: i s whan a panic bnd;i' nut on lii.it. ves.-ial.

Two leading Paris doctors have reported to Iho A iIU-Camw i* League that they have used radium for cann r during a juu iod of tin (a; years. •■'.ml have liml I ml, li lx failures in idxty-lwo ca>es.

A man in uniform Mmcesr-fully emulated the foals ol Wilhelm Voight, of IvoNcnirß fame. at lh> post olliec at Munich.

iff* :udud for and obtained possession of tho entire mail for Inuromburg, an<l then disappeared.

Tho spoc’ch made in tho Duma upon the Daikon question by 31. Lvolsky is commended by Bulgarian, Italian, Servian and Turkish newspapers.

Ifis reference" to Hie destiny of the nnnexed province.-*, however, is severely denounced by tho iiiiesian press an amouuUtig to a conieSfdou of Russia's impotence. ft is. tho papers declare, calculated to encourage Austrians to insist upon their aimst extreme* pretensions.

“Tho Novoo Vromva.” suggests that Austria only proposed the preliminary ucgol iat ions in order to delay war until the spring.

A suspected Anarchist wham tlio Moscow police were Recking to arrest barricaded himself in 1 ho second story of a villa and kept the officers at buy for several hours. With a revolver he killed tho superintendent of gembrnnerio and badly wounded tho second otlicer.

After also wounding the Chief of the Moscow Detective Department another officer and a policeman, he finally committed suicide. A report from St. Petersburg states Hint two men disguised as priests* mitered fho palace of tho Shah during a Cabinet meeting. They drew revolvers and fired, one shot passing through the epaulettes of the heir-apparent. Cossacks armsted the would-be assassins. - The Shah of Persia Ipw refused to issuo the rescript convening a new Parliament until the Nationalists quit the Turkish Embassy, where they have taken refuge. K. E. Walker, a South African, ran it hundred yards at Johannesburg in 9 2-osec, and i2O yards in. 11 2-sscc. Tho Governor of Kentucky - ordered a company of Stabs ‘militia to ■ assist the marshals to suppress rioting in Whiteloy County, where the miners are on strike. A miner and a marshal have been killed, and several persohs were burned to death in a hotel fun following a fight between tho marshals and miners. Mr K. Poor, a member of tho New York Stock Exchange, has failed, his liabiiitias amounting to five million dollars. The revolution in Venezuela which was initiated by General Gomez has been completed without the shedding of blood. Former revolutionaries have been urged to return, and political prisoners havii been liberated.

The boundary dispute with Colombia has been .settled. ft is reported in Venezuela that Castro telegraphed ,to tho ringleaders of the conspiracy, urging them to “kill the serpent, crush its head, and terrorise Caracas.”

The cablegram is likelv to form tho basis of a criminal impeachment- and :m attempt to secure the extradition of Castro.

Describing the Du ms-Johnson boxing fight, the “Sydney Morning Herald” nays that: the issue was not in doubt from the first clnnh. and that; Burns was hopelessly ouUdn«s=ed. Tho “Daily Telegraph' 1 says that the contest was onesided throughout. Burns being outmatched in every round. Johnson declares that ho could have won much earlier, but he laid himself out to make tho drubbing as severe as possible, as ho wanted to got evert for the disparaging remarks made regarding himself.

Burns is thoroughly satisfied with the ilomsioii, find says tlmro was very little doubt in his mind that !m might have won if tin- police had not stopped the light.

tie reiterated his intention of retiring from the ring mid settling in Australia. « In n lending article the “Sydney Morning Herald” describes the contest as a unitedly brutal struggle, and says that to describe such as sport in any decent moaning of the term is flatly untrue. The result of the contest is welcomed hy the Hendon ‘Mvt'ferce.” The sole survivor of the collision outside Newcastle harbour had a terrible experience while drifting on a grating throughout the night.

Two steamers passed close to him in the darkness, but his cries failed to roach them.

Ho was nearly drowned several times, and landed terribly exhausted, with no other clothes but a shirt and boots. Tho cricket, match between Victoria and Now Booth Wales was resumed at Melbourne yesterday. Victoria has eight wickets down for 62(>.

A jockey was unseated and fatally injured while riding in Saturday’s races at f’erlli.

On being examined it was discovered that ho was wearing an electric battery. capable of conveying an electric ebook to tho horse through the spurs:.

A tornado at Coifs Harbour, to the north of Sydney, destroyed the Catholic church ami damaged a number of other buildings.