SUMMARY

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 7017, 4 January 1910, Page 1

SUMMARY

Tho steamer Ayrshire, bound from .Manchester to Durban and A-nefcralia, oolliditl with the Elloriiian liner Arcadian oil' Tu.ik.-tr .[lock, Ireland. Tho Arcadian sank in. three minutes, tirwl twelve Lascars out of her crowot Xi2, worn drowned, while below looking iui- their valuables. The Ayrshire was badly damaged forward. aJid was towed to Holyhead and benched. .Mr Lloyd George, at Reading, says the Budget has cicaUd great interest anion;; colonials, and everyone is tSoroughiy ashamed of the Lords for declining to .taee their responsibilities. Several Ministers, during the election «unpai-n. have hinted that they would ■favour the House of Lords l**:ng reformed from within, and that meanwhile, tho attack .should be concentrated on tne Lords' veto. Mr Lyttelton declares ' the Government's policy is to entomb the Lords in u mausoleum. The majority ot Lrio.iisls favour diminishing the number ot j-iemb-rs of the House of Lords and making them more representative. Mr I-olm 13uras is making an unpreeed.mtly strenuous election light inßatfrsea. Ho. declared that he intends to visit every house in his constituency before polling day. The International Arbitration League describes Mr Robert lilatchiord .as a Hcatimonger, and as a mere pawn in tho Opposition's party game. The South Wales ,niuers with a view ■lo negotiating for a. settlement, have l"vou iiotico of termination of their con(raetti in March. M. Clemc.ncc.iu, ex-Premier of France '(Veuzier the rrench Canadian, who whole of his winnings. , ~,1, from H M.S. Perseus captllLiJ^~/^fX arms held by Afghans in Leliu.liu.tan. Port Arthur is shortly to be opened »n a free port. U t I'iMtf..r\' iirst inning closed tor JUa, and Lnghuul Kui 1« on without loss ot a. wicket. Last year 80,113 immigrants entered Canada from the United States and 90Europe. Amencan i*"*™* iu the Dominion totalled M0.000.W10. V typhoid epidemic is raging at Montreal, where tncre are JUOU cases in the 'hospitals. A British steamer foundered off Cape Jla-tteras, North Carolina, and the mate and twelve men were lost. A goods train telescoped a car attached to an express train standing at the Croton station, New York, and Mr opencesr Trask, a well-known banker, was killed. It is stated that the Eockefeller group of capitalists has acquired control of tho Carnegie and Van Norden Irust Companies, besides the 19th. and 12tn Ward Hanks. A Valparaiso report states that the Morgan group has associated with a syndid-to of British capitalists and the Lieutsche Bank with a view of securing control of the nitrate output of the world. The capital of tho new trust is -C50,000,000. The New South Wales Treasurer says he has no doubt his Budget forecast will be realised, and that the State will have a substantial surplus. Last month railway and vtramway receipts dropped •£17,00", owing to the Newcastle strike. The strikers' co-operativo mines at Newcastle will probably resume work to-day, tho difficulty with regard to the strike levy having been overcome. Manufacturers at Melbourne are almost at their wits' end this week to get (sufficient coal to carry ou operations. * A heavy thunderstorm lias given a month's water supply to Broken Hill, which, was on the verge of a water famine. It haa been s&mi-ofneially announced that at nouo of the functions he attends, ■unless they are of high importance, will Lord Kitchener make speeches. A sailing boat capsized off Peel Island, on tho Queensland coast, and one man, Petter.son, was> <lrowned. Three others wero saved, iu an exhausted condition, after clinging to the boat for eighteen hours. The small yacht Ayesha has been washed ashore at Low Head, forty miles north-west of Launceston. There is no sign of tho crow of four men. An uncharted rock has been discovered where tho Now Zealand Shipping Company's liner Papanui struck a fortnight ago, four and a half miles off "Waterhouse Island, Bass Straits. _South Australia's first innings against Victoria realised 360 runs, of which C. Hill made 135 by four hours' brilliant play. The preliminary rounds in the Wellington Bowling Centre's New Tear tournament wero concluded yesterday and '■.he finals will be begun to-day. Three of the sections were won by Newtown Club rinks, the other three being won bv rinks from the Victoria, Wellington and Te Hiwi clubs respectively. Tho council of the Northern Bowling Association met last night and made tho final arrangements for tho championship tournament which begins in Wellington next Monday.

The "Wellington representative cricket team defeated Canterbury by ninewickets.

The ■Wellington handicap lawn tennis tournament was concluded yesterday. Race- meetings were held yesterday at Auckland, Napier. Stratford, Taufiorinikau. Bulls and other da-ce^