SUMMARY.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXI, Issue 6745, 17 February 1909, Page 1

SUMMARY.

Tlip Chancellor of the Exchequer proprj.'w a super-tux upon imomw of .t:IWKI imd upwards. l,,»rd Charles liercsford rofiiM'S to.fil™ an interview in connection Willi giving J!usiai«-.r""imi.'l" "to "-I' "y orders.' At a dinner ill Uiidtrn. tin- Karl of Jersey congraiulntcd Sir Day ISosam t toM-e 'what he could'cio'in another portion of tli« Kmpirc. Inspectors of the "T/k-iil (iovoi-niiicnl Board state that. Ihough lh" inmate* of l.he asylums tor the )'«<»' inc.ca.-cd during IMS. tin.- iiMlooi- cost of the paupers in London. has fallen by .t.Vi.fWO Half of this amount wrcftnts the savin;; lii tin.' Poplar Union. The inspectors comm-nt on the fonsiiniiiLi'jn of alcohol in tho provinces. (Hu> sick war<l cost, ti 1:1s yearly per head. The inspectors agrnc that the Kncmplovod Act has produced a bad effect. 11l i.lle shape of a nriiv.-i'n W dependem c oil 1 iiv pnhlir liimls iiisli-iid of n willllißUe.-s to make individual et/orf.-. Sir Charles laiea:, proves to reach l-'ri'iimiitlc 'mi his visit to Australasia on March lihlli. lie will he in New Zealand ill July. Mr 1,,-nvrence Ginnell, M.l\ for North UV.-fuioath. has (icon invited by his eonstituenls to re.-ign his seat in Parliament in consequence of hiK.'ictiou in connect ion with the recant private mooting at Dublin of the Irish Parliamentary party. At a meeting of lus coiiK-titiiouts at ivhich this decision was reached, it wns also decided to repudiate- Mr Giu noil's action ultogothor. In the football match between Knglaiwl ami the New South Wales League team (professional) tile former won by li points to 5. There were SOOfl spectators present. There were flvo fresh ".rack the Ripper" stabbing cases in Berlin on Monday. A Dinroliant's wife was wounded yesterday, also a maid servant. A reward of .-CISIJ has; been offered for information that may lead to the arrest of the miscreant. The Porte has accepted an offer made by M. Isvolskv, tlio .Russian Foreign Minister, to suspend the negotiations re■raiding Hie liquidation of the KussojLurkisu war indemnity. Jji pursuance of the. Anglo-Gorman Agreement of 183(1, tho King of Spain had consented to nominate an arbitrator to decide tlio limits of the WaUisch iiav territory. ' : A serious epidemic of typhoid which has broken out at Madrid is affeetin" nil clauses of the community. It is stated that a new Act passed, aiming at the suppression of sedition, has converted some, of the societies in Eastern Bengal into secret societies i with widespread ramifications. Tlio branch at Dacca includes several thousand Brahmins and ln'ch-casto LtinSliis, but no Muhoineduns. The societies uro modelled upon Russian lines, having three circles, the inJier of which is the really active one. At present they only commit occasional acts of Dacoity to obtain fundi', but are in close touch with the Anarchist orCankmttoo. in Calcutta. Bose, the, Bengali student who shot at and killed Biswas, the. Public Prosecutor, while the latter wns engaged in the Court, at Alipur oil tlio trial of some Anarchists, has been sentenced to death. Gorman newspapers (severely condemn the action of u German iirm in sending seditious pictures to Calcutta. A terrible tragedy occurred in the Flores Theatre at Aeapulco, in Mexico. Firo broke out from some cause at present unknown, and hundreds of people in tho building perished. Details of tho tragedy aro very meagre, but it is known that at least three, hundreds persons wore burned alivo. Tho telegraph office was also destroyed by the firo. Tho selectors have chosen Whitty, Macalister, Carkeek, Sid Gregory and Bardslcj to complete tho Australian Eloven. Hopkins has been recommended for inclusion as fifteenth man. Clem Hill strongly objected to jthe choice of Jlacnlistei' and Carkeek, and urged Gchr's claims. lie told his co-selectors that he did not think the best men had been chosen, .and that hn intended to wash his hands of tho whole affair. Official statistics show that the marriages in Victoria last year numbered 9XM, and tho births 'Jll.lDl. These figures nrn below the totals of the previous year, though above, tho nverago of the. previous iivo years. Tho deaths totalled 13,707. which is 1570 above those of tho preceding year. Tho Governor of New South Wales participated in the ceremony of crowning tho aboriginal tribal monarch, Bob Cobbler. At at mooting in Sydney of the Lawn Tennis Association o£ Australasia, a letter was received from tho New Zealand Association announcing its resignation. After hearing two Now Zealand delegate*!, tlio association postponed consideration of the matter until flu. affiliated associations had boon consulted. It was decided that tho next Davis Cup contest be played in Sydney on a date to bo fixed. The funeral of tho local victims of tho Penguin disaster took place yesterday at Karori. All bushiest in the city was suspended while the procession was passing along tlio streets in tho morning, and thousands watched tho mournful cortege as it wound its way to the cemetery.

A mimbi'r of bodies were taken by relatives or friends for intermont privately, and services were proceeding in tho cemetery from early morning till late in the afternoon.

Mrs Hanam, the heroine of tho. disaster, lenvee for Pieton to-dny with tho todies of her husband and four children.

The nautical inquiry, before Dr JlcArtlntr, S.M., ;ui<l Captiiuin h>e<l anil McArtlmr, will bt> opened at the Courthouse at 10 o'clock thus moming.