SUMMARY

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 7018, 5 January 1910, Page 1

SUMMARY

Mr Winston Churchill says the lesson to bo drawn both from the German sail American tariffs is that they are inuuuo to provent severe and widespread cnrou.o unemployment. \b far as Britain is concerned, ho eavs, trade and employment are nowbeing provided so quickly hat the P rt y sent pinch is nearly over. Ihe best guarantee against a return oi the c\iL will be a strong Liberal and progressive majority in the next Parliament. Mr Churchill, writing to Mr Greenwood. M.P. for York City, says that even if the Tories jjiiin 200 seats the balance of power will still be beUl by the Nationalists. He suggests a generous settlement with Ireland. Mr Arthur Chamberlain, brother of Mr Joseph Chamberlain, defends the land and social features of the Budget and the maintenance of free trade. While Lord Salisbury was Premier 37 new peerages were created; under Mr Balfour there were 24, and since the Liberals assumed office 34 have been jwided to the list. Mr Richard Bell, M.P. for Derby, hag resigned the general secretaryship of the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants. The operation of the Eight Hours Act in the Northumberland collieries has evoked dissatisfaction regarding the shift system, and 10,000 miners are idle there and 5000 in the Durham pits; Th© bulkheads of the Ayrshire carried away after the - collision with, th© Arcadian on Sunday, and three of th© liner’s, holds are now waterlogged as she lies beached at Holyhead. Her cargo is being unloaded. - • The late Professor Ludwig Mond bequeathed to th© Royal Society, London, £50,000 for the endowment of research in natural science, and ‘<£so,ooo for the University of Heidelberg, for similar objects. Ho left .£20,000 to th© Munich Academy for the promotion of arts, £20,000 * for j Smsions or occasional assistance to runner, Mond and Co.'s aged and disabled workmen, and £20,000 to charities at Cassel, in Germany. The Professor also bequeathed to the British National Gallery fifty-six valuable pictures, consisting chiefly of the works of the Italian school. It is reported in Paris that M. Bleriot ibas sold several aeroplanes to th© British Government. .. Th© Zionist Congress at Hamburg 'has' j-ekdved to establish'a co-operative settlement in Palestine- , Ruatt, of Germany, and Clark, of Australia, won a six-days’. team cycle contest in Berlin, • covering l 2327 miles, And divided th© prize of £250. . Thirty arrests have been, mad© at Naaik and Bombay in connection with the carder of Mr A. Jackson, Collector of Nasik.. - Damage to the extent of £300,000 was done by a fire at th© Alexandria. (Egypt) Customshouse. German bluejackets salvaged a largo quantity of tobacco. In th© first test match between England and South Africa at Johannesburg, #feb© English team mad© 310 in the first innings, thus securing a lead of 102. In. their second innings the Africans have three wickets down for 124. The Premier, of Manitoba, fearing a change in Anglo-Colonial relations if Socialists ar© nominated to th© British Parliament, suggests that the colonies should endeavour to avert such a misfortune. Professor Lowell states that the new Martian canals are strikingly evident -.eastward of Ysrtis, and denote the pretenco of an animate will. Piv© persons were killed and nine injuredin a railway accident at Hock Island, Illinois, when a California special wa.s derailed. The American Federation of Labour is appealing to its members for funds to Bc-ht the Steel Trust, owing to the corporation's open-shop policy. Leave has been granted to prosecute Messrs Bowling, Hutton. Butler and If Connor, under Mr Wades new Act, for taking, part in a strike meeting a few days ago. A' proposal to re-open the Hurwood Extended mine ait Newcastle, has fallen through. The strikers' pits at Hbbw Main and Young Wallsend, which were expected to re-start work yesterday,-aro still idle. A.severe earth tremor was recorded ini Sydney at ton o’clock on Saturday night, luui a cidculation placed the centre of the disturbance in the Caribbean Sea. Victoria’s second innnings against. South Australia stands at seven wickets for 429 runs—Smith 146, And Armstrong 119. During \ Monday's opcrtittous the Queensland infantry covered twenty miles, and the light horse forty miles. The troops took great interest in their work, and finished fit and well. Tho operations,. whether Lord Kitchener was aware of it or not, were over country with which the forces were well ncauainted. In tho evening the field-marshal wnn entertained by the State Government tot dinner at Parliament House. In the course of a speech ho praised the work of the Queensland troops jn the Boer war, saying they did to themselves and credit to their bta>te. Early yesterday morning an attempt was made to burn down, the Ctofo Cecil building in High street, Christchurch. Furniture in Messrs Goyen and King’s dental rooms was sprinkled with bensine and fired, but an early alarm, and. tho prompt arrival of the brigade, stopped the outbreak after damage to the extent of tobout -L‘2oo had been done. The twtnty-seventh annual meeting of th© Now Zealand Educational Institute opened in Wellington yesterday. In his presidential address, Mr G. IV. Macdonald (Dunedin) made some important suggestions regarding teaching ideals, urging a well-baitoncod combination of physical and mental work, in which the Bible should find a place.