THE WORLD'S NEWS.

Patea Mail, Volume XXIX, 21 June 1907, Page 4

THE WORLD'S NEWS.

I « ■■ LABOR IN TRANSVAAL, In the Assenbly Mr Eissik produced figurea showing that there was ample 5 native labor available to replace Chinese who are to be repatriated during , the present year. BRISISa POLITICS. In the House of Commons, Mr F. C. MacKarness (member for the Newbury division of Burks) and Mr J. O'Grady (East Leeds) persistently but vainly endeavoured to induce the Eight Hon. John Morley, Secretary of State for India, to discuss the action of the In* dian Government against Lajpatria, the ringleader of the seditionary movement in Lahore. Mr Morley said the action taken had his full consent. The j Government was applying the . law. The reply was received with loud op--1 position cheers. - While Sir H. Cotton was putting further questions concerning Lajpatria, Sir H, Vincent interjected a remark. Mr J. McNeil, rising, shouted angrily, "Oh shame; did you hear that, sir? Why not shoot him?" These were the words used. A great uproar on the Irish benches followed. Mr W. Eedmond, while protesting against the incitement to shoot the Indian prisoner, sir H. Vincent interjected : " I did not make the observation ; I spoke to myself." Irish cries: "We all heard it." The Speaker declared that the remark did not reach him, but he ( strongly depricated Sir H. Vincent's interpolating so many observations. The Hon. A. C. Corbett's Bill for the appointment of a commissioner to inquire into the need of inspection of monastic conventical institutions was read a first time by 125 to 121, Several members of the Government, including Mr Haldane and Mr Birrell, I voted against the Bill. The Labor Party, who formerly opposed the Bill, now voted for the measure, their attitude being ascribed to the appearance of a Nationalist candidate for the vacancy in the Jarrow electorate. When the result of the division was announced, showing more Liberals than formerly supported the Bill, the Nationalists protested, Mr William Eedmond declaring that it would be the end of the Liberal alliance. Mr D. Kilbride:- "That will cost you more years of Tory rule." Mr Joyce: "We will show what Irishmen can do at Jarrow." MR CHAMBERLAIN. Mr Chamberlain is in London, in a very feeble state. THE SUEZ CANAL. In the Commons, in reply to Sir Howard Vincent, Mr Aequith, said the Government had not considered the I desirability of offering Suez Canal I shares to the Governments of Australia, New Zealand, India or Natal at market rates in proportion to their interests in the Canal. He did not think the suggestion practicable. I GOLD IN BALL AR AT. j i | The discovery of 19 inch wide gold- • j bearing stone in a grave in the old } cemetery at Bailarat North has caused a rush. The country has been pegged off for a mile round the cemetery. ' DEATH SENTENCES COMMUTED. >' The capital sentences passed on the aborigineH Combit and Donah for the murder of Bradshaw and party at Port Keats last year have been commuted to life imprisonment. ,