SUMMARY

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXI, Issue 6964, 2 November 1909, Page 1

SUMMARY

Mr W. T. Stand pub) i Mies in tho ■j)aily Chronicle” two columns oi wliat pul ports to be a “Messa'fe from Spiritend,” •'ivuie the Into W. £. Oludstonc s , h ivs on tiie iiru-out political situation. 'j'lie deceased statesman says the Isnds v. ill bo ill-advisrd it they inject tl:o

Budge:. lie add-. that ho is m Ki-'iir with the judiiciidivj embodied ui Mi<‘ Budget, though some of the licencing

the Lords in general Mr Gladstone expresses “strong antagonism la their predominance.,” though ho “favours a second Chamber.”

ile further stales that “Mr Lloydthorgw lacks steadiur&s and balance, and ho promises further communion'.ions.

Mr Asquith rebukes Lord Charles Beresford for publishing ' orrespoudenco regarding alleged intimidation of olbcers v. Ulioui; giving- him an opportunity to reply. The Premier sends a detailed list of promotions granted on Lord Charles's stalL which was unusually large from a single ship-

Lord Charles repeats that a system ot espionage, iutimulation, and 'favouritism exists, and is ruining the morale of the Navy.

A shilling fund has been started by the Anti-Socialist Union, for defraying expenses iu connection- with the general ejection.

The Anti-Socialist movement is showing great activity, and promises to prove nn important factor at the general election.

Latest reports from the Darron Colliery. in South Wales, where forty men were Imprisoned in the mine by an explosion,. show that twenty-five miners were killed.

Mr Moore Brabozon won the "Daily Mail” JUKJUO aviation prize for the first Laglishman to fly a circular mile on a British-made machine. The loss on the aviation display at Doncaster amounted to ASOOO.

In connection with the Greek naval revolt some of the rebels hid in a wood, and attempted to hold up a train, but gendarmerie captured four of them and put the rest to flight.

Prisoners .state that sixty-nine officers signed a. protocol to enforce the naval demands, but only nineteen fulfilled the pledge.

Several regiments, mobilised in haste, are at Athens. where the populace threaten to lynch the mutineers.

Typaldoa and other fugitives have reached the mountains, ami their ultimate. escape is possible owing to their local popularity. Business in Athens is at a standstill, and many believe the only solution lies in the Krug's invitation to the Military .League to form a Caibnet,

On Friday night the mutinous destroyers tried to' get away from Salamis Bay, hut loval ships frustrated tho attempt.

A man and a woman were suddenly engulfed owing to the collapse of the pavement in a Xhirrs street. The man was rescued, hut the woman disappeared.

The Suez Canal Convention proposes the prolongation of tho concession till and after 1965 half tho annual not profits aro to go to Kgypt.

Tho Russian forces in Persia have been reduced to 1100.

During tho first six months of the present fiscal year immigration into Canada totalled 120,953 persons, of whom 56,150 came from tho United States. Mr AV. J. Bryan, speaking at AVinni,peg, said that Canada was the only young country ablo to attract and keep Americans.

The Canadian naval scheme contemSlates the fortification of Sydney, Cape roton, owing to supplies of coal for the Hast Coast passing that place.

.At a meeting in Montana two guides were confronted with Dr P. A. Cook, the Arctic explorer, and declared that he never ascended Mount .McKinley, in Alaska, as he claims to have done.

Q r uai‘rymeu around Sydney went on Strike yesterday, in support of a demand for an increase of one shilling' a day in wages.

•The coko works at the Clifton Colliery have been closed, owing to the strike of tho miners.

The death has occurred at Sydney of Hr Morris Asher, at one time resident in Wellington, at the age of ninety-two. He took part in tho early Maori war; and was present at the capture of To Ka uparaha. ■ At Sydney _ on Saturday Hardwick made a world's swimming record, covering a hundred metres (rather over 109 yards) in C 3 seconds. A motor-car collided with an eloctriolight pole in Melbourne and was smashed. A lady. Miss Burke, was killed, and several other passengers were slightly injured.

In the somewhat important native land case which involves the ownership of a jiortion of “Kemp's purchase" the Court of Appeal yesterday held unaui- . mously that the Legislature had decided that the conditions or restrictions in regard to the Kaiapoi and native reserves were valid. Judgment was for the defendant. The question of costs to be considered tomorrow. Tho jubilee of Marlborough province was celebrated with great enthusiasm at •Blenheim yesterday. Speeches were delivered by his Excellency the Governor, the Hons. D. Buddo and T. Mackenzie, tho' Mayor of Blenheim, and others. A man at _Ashburton was drinking methylated spirit, when if ignited, causing his death. James Snead, an old age pensioner, was burned to death at Greymouth through his hut catching lire. Victor Tuuzelrnann has been committed for trial on charges of burning down a, dispensary and aUemwting to chloroform the manager.