NEWS IN BRIEF.

Otago Witness, Issue 2883, 23 June 1909, Page 61

NEWS IN BRIEF.

' Six stowaways op the Warrimoo to ! Sydney were "each fined £8, or two months' 1 imprisonment. The Transvaal Asssmblv has cad the Proportional Representation Municipality Bill a second time. ; Thw National Mortgage and Aoency Company has declared a dividend of 7^ I i>er cent. . " Mr E. Chapman, of Chatswcod Club, his I won tho howling championship of New '' South •s'aie^ ', Thoi-o weie 12 chnbra patients in St ! Pet'ii:,burg, and 24 frs«h cases wore re- ! ported on thf 13th Inst. j The Councess 01 Ab< rdeen. at the opening of the International C-on?r-s=s of Women, in To-ronto emphasised the vast potentialities of such comradeships. : The Ve'lcral Ca'ci-iet has ".^cided to d;sj card ta-3 tnlophono s^st-m adopted by the 1 late Governnwni, and to rp\orr to the old j system, which allows 2COQ frc--j calls. The Hon.. Mr Brodour ar.d Sir F. W. Borden, the Canadian representatives at the Imperial Dc!enca Conference, will sail for London on July 2. The Federal Minister of Defence is ?c:ij sic^rin^ the suggestion that the Commwi wealth defray the cost of training Aus- ! tralian cadets for tnc 'oyal navj. ! Williams, who wo -a found- guliity of I manslaughter as a result of tho death cf i Johnson at Wee Waa, New South Wales, in December last, has been sentenced to 10 years' imprisonment. TJ;e promi&>s of Mr A. Abrecht, jeweller r-nd importer, Melbourne, -were entered by burgUtrs. and £6000 worth of jewelleiy stolen. Much, gratification is expressed in Russia with the announcement that King Edward will receive th© members o-f the Duma and Council of Empire on their visiting .England. There have been fresh finds of diamonds in Spencer Bay, north of Luc'eritz La r ul, in German South-West Africa. The finds have led to a sensational rise in Geiman Colonial Company's sha.res. Before Mr Justice Kenny and a special jury at Dublin, Alexis Roche was awarded £5 damag-M and costs against Sir Timothy O'Brien, Cork, on a. charge of slander by calling Roche a swindler in connection with a sale of horses. Tka Times' Bombay correspondent eay3 of Sir G. S. Clark's great scheme for 1 ©housing the poor and improving Bombay that it is realised the Governor will bare an indolibk mark on the Empire's second city. The N.S. Wales nrisons report shows l-h-at ihis prisons of X-aw South Wale? cost le=s now than 12 years asro. In 1891 th© prisoners numbered 1 to 45 cf the population, now Ito 1070. Forly-eight per cent, of the prisoners arc native Lorn. Mr Percy Dan HI U the ]p«t Senior Wrargkr of Trinity College, Cambridge. Owing to the organisation scheme which was decided upon some time ago other methods of examination have been a J opte'l. St. John' 6 and Trinib- Colleges previously had 52 Wranglers each. O'SuUivan was acquitted at Melbouine on the chaig.3 of murderinir Mrs Gallagher at Richmond on May 11. Mr Norman, Chief Enginser of Tictorian Railways, has beo-n appoint-ed third Ccmniisjionpr. Thirty-nino cattle which ware grazing in a paddock adjoining the Pyrites Smelting uorks, near Alelbourne, died from arsenical poisoning. A Canadian named Perrier, employed in a Mydney tea room, s,hot a wait re--* 'n-uned Jeffer and then killed himself. Jeff-r is not seriously hurt. Jealousy is said to we the can* j. The total nujnher cf votprs on the F^de«l electoral rolls is 2.100,020, which is S ioSr wr n', lan i he Rnmb » on the rolls Of 1936. Ihp docr/'oso is explains J by the _many oiiphcations on tho old rolls Kmg Ldv.ard „.,» rovi^w (he flest at ' Cowm oa J,.ly 21. He ha« ovnro-sed- a. i «-i>h that tho ir.pmbpvs of th- Ho-i»o o « i no-s n ; tt ° nS ard llouse of Lorf!s efc o"W v.it"TT.nl"« « I sr< *., <o particmate in tho JJanLou-Sz-fhuan ra-hvay. and is *e!7ing fho oprvo l( „n. t v fo « hoy hO . fri .nrkbi n by KSp °'' ICa affain<fc Gl ' Mt Brilai " . Earl Wirev.-sl-irv and othois ivo •-'^volon>r.<r from -vn-te pivJ uc^, a<* a substitute .or ."tioi. a n« w Kn-h-h product nomod , 1 om>> Ir v cl B :n-d tb 3t it will h« about »rrl V° "V' Pn'l!'o!lP n' l! ' o!l moic c«no.nical, • Sir J. Cl. Wnul v.-.t, v. M.-omH a* R%dn«v by ror^ont.tu, s .r „,,, (iov/»rnmp n t, who •.\cre a^onr.] ihe Go\ orm.-^nt -t^a-n^r on hi-- prriv::'. T!--r P wis a JarcfP ' C Nw Z-al-mlo!, o-i (h- v.h a ,f. v.'To c-o-t-1 nim w:rh rics of "Xia ora"' ar.l < hfonror. Tr a— it-t.5 tho- niurdM- of \l<-=< F'--ip Si^l. tho Irulv ir'^-ioi — iof-nr! | O in tho ciHna:ra!.is. took r \-r» ] n Q an Fn-^i <-o, not in X^w Yo k. SSoS u o v suppo-^d to be rr^ victim of a land cf <l-pravM Chi'-.-m^n n-T-rjr.-'n.'lina: a= coivorls to Phri^tianil v. . . \°°ji, . a rrlc; ° >■• ronvrrt", nml v-M-H C.iina^T.vn vifhoi-'- -mr ppsn.Vni r,t (ljrT^i S-Vo-^ of let o>-^ from «!-i\-v-orr-^n hay» l-r-- n d'-zo-orrd in tho nurA «T_-!b!r?iTi = i - s «.tiil,-p t.gaip-fc then- r.on- ' rToar.:ti-n by lnir'H '»r.cm!v r'ohv'] Iho Grand ?l(rr.-.l— h.3'-> at Armani Frc/i"* Th." _<iprcntc-<, b'fp-''-; i-n/rrv, hroko ii ] >f> harriers ;in'l ft fiiv (o thp trrpa< % and '•lamo'ii-Tl foi- i'^o r o <ivri o-f thrir ivon."v. Th-» lnilirarv '-^pro---^1 th-» orowd«, lhou'di ' v -, r2 i -,- ero ininr-->cl. T't.r. programme was ulfima'-clv ftilfilWl" j Colon"! F. fV'v. -j A <'^i-hnt i n Lis ! n^w asm-ilano. mado a r-irru'ar flight o f a mil" jmrl i-hplf at a hf>i>h< if ?Oft. TIo Jti-i'lo tbroo 'h-'-n t:irn«. Th« Morning Po-t np^CT 1 - to tho puolic for £20 000 to nr'-'nf- a •dirisibl^ to th-> rn^xon. "Franco is b-ii'dipor four i-ir?-? dirisribl-rs, Belgium 'ne. and Snain or^, all of French manu- ' fvctwre. Germiny is building one of 500 fcr.-^-power. * ! \t Wciroa two lads named Johansen and Finucaaie went out on Sunday m|

■' a boat. When thej- returned the la Its] > pulled out the gvn, which, exploded ".iic shot Johanson through the thigh, fortu natcly missing the femoral artery. A man was arrested at Bournemouth England, on suspicion of being concerned in a series of burglaries there. A com pari&cn of finger-prints disclosed ths faci fhat tho*e of acciiecd were identical witl tha finger-prints sent to Scotland Yard o; John Ushor, who escaped from the Waito tapu Camp last year, and of whom nc traos could be found. Usih-er was serving a eentsnje of five .years' imprisonment foi | burelary at Auckland when he escaped. The f=hip Lion Bureau, wheat-laden, froir Adelaide to Falmouth, is waterlogged in Penzance Harbour (Cornwall), the result ol striking a rock off tho Scilly Isles during a > fog. The A.U.P.N. Company's new 6toamei Mallir.a, on her rr.ai'lon voyage, has gone ashore at Pag 3 erst on Is-land. rear Torres Strait?. A tup: hss been despatched, and it is expected that the Mallina will be refloated.