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Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXVI, Issue 10096, 13 March 1909, Page 2

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[By Electhic Telegbaph—Cofvrioht.] (I'ek Peess Association.) Received March 13, at 8 a.m. ■ Ottawa, March 12. Judge Barren, speaking at the Empire Club at Toronto, urged Canada to adopt a naval scheme similar to that of Australia. He'added that Canada was spending so much on land' force as not to have a. cent for naval defence. This was like putting a one-armed or one-legged man in the prize ring. Sir 0, S. Clarke, who was a guest at the lodge of the Imperial Brotherhood in Bombay, consisting, of, Freemasons of all. races aiming at mutual co-operation, remarked that the Indian system of go--1 vernment was on the eve of great changes, and he believed thai; it was for the country's good. TheVsuccess of. the changes ■was dependent upon the co-operation of I all classes and creeds. He rejoiced ;to associate himself, with a movement to that end. London, March' 13. Six aeroplanes of Orville Wright's model are being built in England. The new battleship Temeraire attained a. speed of 21.7 knots in her trial. The trial of seven prisoners connected with recent Sligo riots on a charge of unlawful assembly was adjourned till next assizes, copies of the special jury panel having been privately printed and circulated and an active canvass made of jurors on behalf of the prisoners. The wool sales included "Gear" 7|d, '•R S over T" 9d, "Whana" 10id, "Otairi" 9ld, "Okitio" llfd. Deceived March 13, at 8.30 a.m. London, March 12. The newspaper. People apologised and agreed to pay £IOOO damages for libelling Mr Lloyd-George. The allegation was that Mr Lloyd-George paid £20,000 to prevent being sued for divorce. The Bystander apologised and paid £3OO to a charity in connection with a similar libel. Speakers in the debates in the House of Lords and House of Commons severely condemned the Government for permitting a Swansea educational authority to starve its church schools and differentiate between the salaries of teachers in church and board schools. Mr Balfour ridiculed Mr Runciman's plea that the law did not allow the Education Department to interfere in a case which had engaged public attention for many months. Vienna, March 12. The Express train from Vienna to Cannes was snowbound for six days, the passengers procuring food with great difficulty. Received March 13, at 8.5 a.m. Paris, March 12. Official reports supplied to the Chamber of Deputies allege a conspiracy of contractors to defraud the Treasury. One contract for 35 submarine motel's gave a profit of 95 per cent., while battleships costing Britain a million and a-half cost France over two millions. Peking, March 12. Dr Morrison says a German syndicate is lending three millions for the construction of the northern half of the Canton-Hankow railway, which is a direct violation of the agreement of 1905, whereby British capital and British material were to lie used, also disregarding the British and German agreement of 1898, defining the spheres of railway interest. Received March 13, at 9.15 a.m. London, March 12. Trinity House is introducing submarine fog signals and bells in several places on the coast. The signals can be heard 15 miles away. . Several newspapers state that the Premier has censured Mr Churchill for his remarks on retaliation. Mr Churchill was also heckled in the House of Commons. New York, March 12. The Court of Appeal of the district of Columbia upheld the injustice of forbidding the Amercan federaton of labor to publish in its organ, the Federationist, the name of the Bucks Stove Range Company of St. Louis under the "We don't patronise" '.list. The Court declared thai, defendants could not be restrained from all reference to the company in the journal, but only from publications made in furtherance of illegal boycott.