SUMMARY

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXI, Issue 6872, 16 July 1909, Page 1

SUMMARY

In the. House of Commons Mr LloydGeorgo promise! to exempt purely agricultural land from the new taxation, and all holdings under JJijOO in value, will An amendment to (he Finance Bill requiring the registry of particulars relating to all transfers of land was cartried, after a lively debate, by a large majority. During the discussion Mr Will Thorne (Labour) was interrupting a speaker, when Lord W'intertou declared he was unfit (o speak in the debate. At the request of the chairman of committee Lord Winterton withdrew the remark, though ho contended he still thought the member unfit. Mr Thorne interjected, 'T call him a liar/* and great uproar followed. Mr Thorne refused to • recall this remark, and was suspended for the rest , *Uf the sitting. Mr Keir Hardio afterwards gave an assurance that Mr Thorne had not tasted liquor that day, and Lord Winterton then expressed his willingness to ujpologiso to Mr Thorne. In the course of the debate on Lord Robert's National Service Bill, the Earl of Crowe warned the House of Lords that the Bill was intended to apply to Ireland, where portions of the population were accused by some persons of disloyalty. i Many of the middle and respectable working classes in Britain, he said, objected to their sons camping with what they would consider "riff-raff/* Tho Unionist newspapers are amazed at Lord Crewe's speech, and contrast it with those of Lord Milner and the bishops in, favour of the fusion of classes. The Consultative Committee of the Board of Education reports that the lack of continued secondary education is among the chief causes of national unemployment. The committee suggests that local authorities should be compelled to provide continuation classes; that employers should bo obliged to concede time, and that the school, agd should be raised to Fifteen. - t The agreement among London meat importers to sell colonial mutton only at a fixed nriee is stated to be working satisfactorily. Prices were slightly raised in order to checkmate the street barrow men. About nine-.tonths of tho present stock of lamb in London was Now Zealandgrown. At the London, wool: sales on Wednesday a good selection was offered, and business was more animated. Americans operated freely, and prices of good merinos- and crossbreds were firmly maintained.

At a joint meeting of the British and Overseas Committee of delegates to the Imperial Press Conference, a vote of thanks was passed to Mr R. KyffinThomas, of Adelaide, and Mr J. W. Kirwan, of Kalgoorlie, for their useful services daring the conference. Several of the suffragettes sentenced to imprisonment in connection with the disturbances outside the Houses of Parliament are resisting the Holloway authorities. They refuse to work, and demand to bo placed in the first division. The women broke their cell windows, and struck in a against the prison rules. They were sentenced to terms of solitary'confinement.The Australian cricketers defeated Gloucestershire by an innings and 5 runs. Australia "declared” the first innings at eight for 445, and the county men could onlv knock together 230 and 210.

Herr von Bethmann-Hollweg, Secretary of State for the Interior, has been, appointed German Imperial Chancellor, in succession to Prince Buelow, who ha* resigned.

The international troops now garrisoning Crete will be withdrawn from the island £jn 26th inst. The Powers have warned the Cretan Government that they will watch over the safety of the Mussulman inhabitants, and re-establish order in the event of disturbance.

Oscar Rothschild, son of Baron Albert Rothschild, head of the Vienna house of financiers, committed, suicide because his father refused to allow him to marry a govern

A number of notables of Cilicia have been in connection with the recent massacres in Asia Minor.

The Turkish Government has also ordered the arrest of the ex-Governors of Adana and Djebel Borekt, and tue commander of the Adana garrison.

Fighting between the Shah’s troops and the revolutionary forces was continued in Teheran all Tuesday night. The Nationalists captured a position near tho house of Colonel Lakhoff, commander of tho brigade of Cossacks, and JhilaUy captured part of the Cossacks' position. Tho latter are now shelling the Nationalists.

JRoyalisb troops have arrived from Sultanabad, and commenced shelling tho Parliament buildings. Nationalists have complained to the foreign Consuls that tho .Russian Government’s Cossack troops are tiring from Colonel LakhoiTs house under the shelter of tho Russian g.

July wheat has advanced suddenly by 7 cents a bushel at Chicago, causing a panic among brokers who have been selling “short,” since rains have delayed harvest operations in several States,

There is still no word of tho German. Government yacht Seestern, which is long overdue on tho voyage from Brisbane to New Britain.

The theory is advanced that her disappearance is due to ouantity of explosives that the vessel shipped at Brisbane.

Au examination the federal liner Dorset, which struck an uncharted coral I'oek near Cape CV-ricoru, shows that several rivets were started.