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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXI, Issue 6870, 14 July 1909, Page 1

SUMMARY

Kins Edward has forwarded a nm.v nge of .sympathy « tth the tamily of the iatv Lord Kipon. Scottish miners arc- appealing to 'hc Minors' Federation d bn tarn to take- a ballot on the ciucsticm of a general stoppay* of work. ColHerv disputes in Staffordshire and Nottinghamshire havu been settled. . Mr Llovd-Goorge has promised that small properties shall bn exempt fiom payment of incrciucnt <luty. ' Lord Fit/-william states that if the Finance Bill passes ho will sell a great deal of his property. Tho Surveyors* Association severely condemns tho tax on undeveloped land, which, they asert, will force land u|)on the market before, it is wanted. The Liverpool Law Society baa published a memorandum showing the enormous cost of making valuations. Sir Charles -Dilke. M.P.. at a miners’ demonstration in ’Gloucestershire, staled that the duty on ungotten minerals would be. dropped. He objected to the substitution of a tax on royalties, preferring that-'mines .should be taxed as undeveloped land. For the' Mid-Derbyshire seat, vacant by tbs .death of Sir J. A. Jacoby, tho Liberals have decided to support Mr Hancock, the. Labour-Socialist candidate. Mr Samuel Cresswell, who was defeated at tho last general election, is standing in the Conservative interests. Mr S. Cresswcll, Conservative candidate for. Mid-Derbyshire, during his election canvass stated that M.r iveir Hardio’s; speeches- had fed the seditious movement which culminated in tko murder of. Sir .'William Wyllio. Mr Keir'flardio announces that he is bringing a libel action, against Mr Cresswell. Tho Bishops of Exeter and Bath supported Lord Roberts’. Compulsory. Training Bill in the House of Lords. A bitter campaign of protest against the visit Of the Czar to England is beingcarried. on. , Mr J..p.amßay MacDonald, speaking at a: Labour ami i ree Church demonstration at Leicester, said Englishmen would not grasp, a hand foul with tho blood of those it, ought to protect. Mr Kcir Haj-die challenges-tho Government to drive the Czar through the itreets of London. . In oyer' one hundred .Nonconformist rulpits on Sunday protests wore made gainst the visit of tho Czar, and special prayers were offered for the victims of ifusaihn tyranny. : , Mr;W. Crooks, MJP., wnll vimt Canada ind VAvistralia ' shortly to study colonial omditions. Women suffragists concerned in. the recent raid on the House of-: Commons haie-. been fined, with the alternative of imprisonment- lor terms ’ ranging irom a month" to.sii 'weeks. • .Magistrate warned them that in future-the penalty xould -be gaol “without tbp option.” The Australian cricketers commenced tmvatch against Gloucestershire on Monday.- The county battedffirst,* putting up 230. At the end of the day the visitors had .56 on for no wiofcets. The “Daily Chronicle” learns, on the authority of the so-tailed Dr Boyd ■hijnself, .'that, th©. story iof his ..crossing the Tri|h Sek in an airship was a fabrication, ‘and ‘that he; hoaxed tho “Daily News.” ' , ', ; - f At the' London. wool £sales on Monday a good; selection was Offered, and competition was brisk at late rates,.

’ The British Chamber of .Commerce in .Paris • has offered to assist in opening a small’ bureau . for, the, dissemination of ihtormdtioh rolating'|;o', British colonies. .Many, miners, were entombed, by an explosion at a colliery at Belmez, in Spain. Forty-two have been rescued alive. 7 /. • Cholera is spreading,.teriously in the Eliasian provinces; l - A bomb was thrown by Mafia agents into ;the residence, of Mr’ Whitaker, in Palermo., The bomb exjdoded without doing, any damage. Mr Whitaker had refused;to-pay blackmail to the Mafia. • It is stated : th4t the Canadian representative: at tho, Imperial Defence Conference will submit a definite scheme for a : Canadian JMavy of twenty-live vessels. '• The death is , announced of Professor riimoii Newcomb, 'President of the Astronomical Society of America. The Now Yprk correspondent of “Tho Times": says that as; imports are likely to increase with the return of prosperous times, the new tariff may yield .£5,000,Opif of additional revenue. A strike .of;:municipal employees occurred at Broken Hill through the action of tho Mayor in displacing eight single pen to ,make ' way for , a similar number of ifnemployed married men. -All the Civic; services, including the electric lighting,' wtre suspended. The Mayor . then reversed his action, ■ and work whs resumed. ■ ' A"; man "named' Cox was found dead ■ih .Tiis: house at* Horsh'njii, Victoria, and his wife, and a man named Hay were subsequently arrested on a charge of murder.' - •lames Martin Fitzsimmons, the bankwller: .who recently left. Melbourne on a'lholwiiyi'and whose cash account was alleged .to hq deficient, has been arrested n»t, Brisbane..’ - . ;As la.roimit/or.a, feuti, ■ Mchael Duffy his hhlf-brothor, Thomas Stack dead at Croydon, Queens- . iTbo Rev. Copland King, of the New l/junea (Anglican Mission, states that - lorcery is prevalent among the.’natives. Old; women having the' reputation of witches will dig up their own dead and «at a portion of the flesh, with the obof*, obtaining character. .Although ; bead-hunting is still frequently indulged in, cannibalism is gradnaJly giving way to civilising influence,-. .tty*. Wellington Synod closed it£‘.*ession; lost, evening. '/V- resolution' in favour of religious teaching in schools, under the Kelson system, ‘was adopted.’ : t , ho,first luncheon of thn Now Zealand iy>nb ' was ' held in Wellington yesterday. *■ Mr M. Myers was elected president of •the-club. -,

Tho Hon. A. T. Ngata addressed tho trerober* on tho aims and aspirations oti.tno .Young Maori party, • :T3he!.first.' ba'fcch; of unemployed were put. on to work at Victoria College grounds jesterday.