SUMMARY

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 7019, 6 January 1910, Page 1

SUMMARY

Air Balfour says the present crisis reveals Uio fact that, lb© country B being separated into two great sections on Banes affecting t ho foundation of tiie whole Empire.

He denied making party capital out of tho Navy question, but declared that when the Unionists left uliice the strength in battieshix>s was overwhelming.

Mr Winston Churchill declares that a 10 per cent, duty on imported leather, which tho Tariilites promised in order to win the Bermondsey »eat/ means an additional burden : upou the Leicester manufacturers of t £2UO,UUO a year.

This is equivalent to about 3s a week on the wages-of an ordinary operative. VVhile industry would be injured through a protective duty designed to raise the price of material, it stands to gain nothing from protection itself.

Lord Rayleigh/ speaking at Witham, favoured making loreigners contribute towards the national expenditure. He therefore supported Tariff Reform.

“The Times/' discussing the future of the House ot Lords, says tUat Mr Asquith has definitely disclaimed the policy of ending, and his party has sufficiently indicated its objection to mending, the Hous-e.

. There remains bending, which implies curtailing tho powers of the .Lords while leaving men* composition alone. This alternative, which j urists consider the worst, is chosen by the Government.

Several politicians and newspapers are urging Mr Asquitu and Mr Balfour to iu«K« a detinue statement of their intentions regarding the Lords.

Air John Burns, President of ’ the Local Government Board, speaking at Battersea, expressed nimself in favour wx adult suffrage, There is indignation at Dover over tho udmiralty prohibiting tho Graving nocks uompany from building a doc* largo enougu to take a Dreadnought.

The work would have cost ,£1,000,000, and provided work lor hundreds of men now unemployed. Sir H. Norman, Liberal M.P. for South \\ oiverhampton, him been appointed Asaistant-Postmaster-Generai.

The death is announced of Sir Fred-erick-Hurley, Chief Justice of New South W'ales, who has been residing in Britain owing to failing health, aged eighty. Upwards of 20,000 miners arc idle in • Northumberland and Durham, owing to trouble arising from tho working of the hiignt Hours Aot, •

AL Delagrange, the aviator, has been killed while aeropianing at Bordeaux. Prussian savings bank deposits in 1908 totalled JHi 8,660,000, or .£6,000,000 more than the withdrawals.

Many accidents occurred on tho ice in Germany during the New Year festivities, and twelve persons were drowned. Tho Russian Admiralty continues disorganised, and four proposed v Dreadnoughts cannot bo completed in due time without recourse /to foreign aid. Tho Government works, which undertook to supply the vessels' armour in Iwo years, find it impossible to deliver turrets and plates for a decade. In the First Test Match at Johannesburg against the English visiting team, the South Africans scored 345 in their jecond innings. The Marylebono team In their second innings have lost seven for 14-1 runs. Mr Darius Ogden Mills, the San Francisco financier, is dead.

Of the first list of nine municipal officers issued by Judge Gaynor, the now Mtiyor of New York, only one is a regular Tammanyite. The Manhattan Bridge, the fourth over the Fast River, which has been erected at a cost of .£5,'200,000, has been opened.

Tho Federal Customs and Excise revenue for the past six months amounts t.j .£5,783,000, an increase of *£379,000 as compared with the same period last year. The postal revenue increased by £114,000 to >1,801,000. The continued idleness of the miners' mines at Newcastle, which it is now aifnounced will not again work during the strike, leads to the belief that important developments are likely. There" is a growing opinion that Mr Bowling intends to advise the miners to accept a compulsory board as a means of settling their grievances. Several southern minors' lodges, after addre.-ses from Mr Bowling and other leaders, adopted resolutions supporting Mr Bowling and the congress. The Premier of Victoria has received n cablegram from London stating that the steamer Caldorgrove. now- at Auckland, might undertake the search for the missing steamer Warutah. Victoria's second innings against the South Australian cricketers realised 458 runs, Armstrong making 124 in fine style. South Australia, in the second strike, have seven wickets down for 210. Mr Woodford. Commissioner of the Solomon Blands, recently proceeded to the island of Baggabngga to inquire into the massacre of Captain Brinskin's family by the chief Sitos gang in October last.

A force of native police landed and scoured the island without emcees* at first, but eventually Tqngaya, the actual murderer of Mrs Brinskiu and her younger child, was captured, and three others of TongavaV family killed.

The Pioneer left Bluff yesterday for Dusky Sound to rescue the excursionists fiom the steamer Waikare, which struck a rock and was beached.

The warship passed Puysegur Point at eight o'clock last night, and was expected to- reach Bluff at about two o’clock this morning.