SUMMARY

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXI, Issue 6997, 10 December 1909, Page 1

SUMMARY

Mr Wvndhnm declares that the reaL to be Committed to the policy $ u IS ul< et anil against tariff reform withouthaving "a opportunity of saying which they prefer. Mr Alfred Emmottsays tho present K ~ . eat chance to have a written Constitution Provision might be made tor omethyl- like a referendum, or a methou! X'-eby the people would bo able to give a direct maudate. Mr John Burns, addressing stituents at Battersea, said he «ould never recover from the stigma if they reiected hiui. He liad been hard at >-o k on the Housing Bill, and would now show an energy that would astonish the- constituency. The House of Lords has decided that estate duty must be paid on a millioii and a half pounds' worth of foreign bearer bonds deposited in London, by Mr W. Winans, a milh'.omairo, who was domiciled in America, but diod m London. British imports last month increased by .£11.701,0011 to exports increased bv .£4,174,000 to .£33,321,000. and re-exports" increased by £69,700 to ,£6,751,1)00, compared with November, 1908. For the past eleven months the total trade—.imports and exports—is over £0911.361,000, compared with .£900.668,165 for tho January-November period- of 1908. A Maori "Princess," Peara Nene, made n successful debut at the Queen's Gate Hull. Adolf Beck, who, in. 1904 was given £2OOO by the Government as compeoisa;ion for wrongful arrest and imprisoniienf. has (lied in London in a, state of lestitution A Bill endorsing tho Anglo-German, ouiiuereial agreement has been read a bird toime in the Reichstag. Herr Delbrueck, in a boastful speech m the Reichstag, declared that. Germany's fiscal policy had conquered the markets throughout the - world. Prussia is enforcing tho Expropriation Act against the Poles, in order to mnrea«e'the number of German settlers in tjie eastern provinces. The net profits of Kruppe' works last . rear was £760,381, nearly £200,000 less than in the previous year. As a result of an explosion which wreelced the gasworks at Hamburg, seventeen persons are dead or missing. German papers publish a story told by Esquimaux to a missionary that one day. the -natives were astonished to see a white house in the sky." They described how it contained two men, half-starved, irlio, after being partly restored, died. it is suggested one of the men may liavo been Andree, who ascended from Dane's Island in 1897 and was never agaiin heard from. The Czar has sanctioned a scheme for the fortification of the Finnish coast and the transformation of Eeval into a naval fortress. Canadian Liberals have pledged themselves to support Sir Wilfrid Laurier's naval and military policy. Referring to the iincreaeed icost of living, President Taft's.. Message to Congress states that in America the 'increase is almost wholly on factory and farm pro(liict= on which the tauiff has not imposed additional burdens. The Phoenix Insurance Company of New York is writing off .£200,000. which it is alleged George Sheldon, tho lata president, illegally used for his own speculations. It is stated that the company's accounts had not been examined for twenty-two years. ft is reported that the revolutionaries defeated the Nicaraguan Government troops at Bama', the latter losing 100 men. , • The Federal Senate has passed the Ap. propriation Bill. A conference on wireless telegraphy will bo opened in Melbourne, on the 15th inst. to deal with the question of communication with the islands of the Western Pacific. T/be Victoria Legislative Assembly has parsed a Bill authorising the establishment of a State coal mine. There is much unrest among the wharf labourers at Sydney. They have decided to ask all wharf labourers who are members of the naval and military forces to resign therefrom. Mr Hughes expressed an opinion iA favour of the Government taking over the mines as a temporary expedient. He believed the men would be willing to work for the Government. Mr Bawling, addressing a meeting at Wallsend, declared that Mr Hughes's leadership bad been a failure. The men had been fooled too long by talk of mediation, and would have to fight or crawl down. Both miners and mines continue working, turning out a good supply. The railwavs are also securing considerable quantities of waste slack coal from other sources. A Parliamentary Committee reports adversely on the working of the South Australian State Bank, and recommends the cessation of the present method of issuing Government bonds. The Government is making no further ndvances pending Parliamentary consideration and a conference with the bondholders with a view to arriving at «n amicable settlement. The New Zealand House of Representatives passed the Naval Defence Bill last evening. Persons holding wholesale licenses in the King Country waited on tho Primo Minister last evening, asking that their licenses should not be abolished before the next general election, when the voice of the people could be heard. The Prime Minister promised +o consider the matter, but said the Government thought the granting of the licenses -was contrary to the intention of Parliament. The Woodville District Jockey Club's summer meeting was concluded yesterda}. .