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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 11123, 24 July 1907, Page 1 (Supplement)

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SUMMARY OF WORLD'S HAPPENINGS,

LONDON, June 6

The; police have effected a tliird arrest in connection with the Park-lane art robbery. At Marylebone Edward John Morris, 58, a Clapliam-road picture dealer, was remanded, on £5,000 bail, on a charge of receiving two oil paintings and a gold and enamel snuff-box, valued at £14,000,. til© property of Mr. Wertheimer.

Lord Ripon, delivering his presidential address to the members of the Eighty Club, said that the rejection of the Irish Bill would make no difference in the policy of the Liberal Party towards Ireland. They Would still hope that it might be sortie day given them to apply to the difficulties of Ireland a permanent' and lasting settlement. The British South Africa Company, regarding tlie present moment as favourable for taking more active steps for developing the commercial resources of Rhodesia, has decided tliat three of its directors)' the manager, and the solicitor shaU proceed to South Africa on an official, tour of inspection. FIRE AT A BALL. Fire broke out. in a crowded dancinghall at Montreal in the early hours of May 31, and caused a panic The dancers, blinded with smoke, rushed to /the windows and jumped to tlie pavement, many feet below. Eighteen of them were badly injured and removed to tlieir homes or to the hospitals;. Several of them will probably not. recover. JAPANESE APPRECIATION. . The news that H.M." Cruiser Monmouth is being despatche'd to Vancouver to convey Prince Fushimi back to Yokohama has been received here (says a Tokio despatch) with the most profound appreciation. The fact that the y Emperor's special envoy will be able to travel, home thousands of miles by ' land, and water under the ally's flag and -without treading an inch of others' territory is a source of eminent! satisfaction to the Japanese, . who regard it as demonstrating one of tbe greatest possibilities, enibodied in the Anglo- Japanese alliance for ensuring the peace of the world. SALE OF GLASTONBURY ABBEY. Tlie* Glastonbury Abbey Estate and the ruins of the abbey were .offered for sale recently. Tlie sale attracted from .400 to 500 persons, including representatives of the English and -Roman Churches. The auctioneer (Mr, R. Bowring) expressed the bope that whoever became the purchaser would recognise his responsibility in preserving the abbey as carefully and zealouslv as the present owner. Bidding' began at £24,000, from Mr Earnest .Jardine, of Nottingham, a lace machinery manufacturer, and at £.30,000 the property was knocked, down to him amidst cheers. , :'■■- '•■■■! .SEDITION. , y-. What .danilreland: now do?. I think that i. she is not "to become a mere West British Province she must adopt the policy of Sinn Feihy Trust in herself and work lor her own : industries ; boycott 'every-' thing English, and in particular England's ■Army and Navy ;— strivefor national success.in eyerytfiing ; avoid helping England as she would avoid helping her greatest enemy, and prepare for the' day of Eng. land's weakness, which will .always be Ireland's opportunity.— Mr. John Sweetman, in Sinn Feirij Dublin. " * JAPANESE STRIKERS. The riot caused by the strikers at tlie Besshi Copper mine, Japan, was graver than at , first reported. The antagonism between capital and labour is evidently growing, and reports from / Matsuyama state that the situation is most serious. The telegraph lias been cut, and the strikers, numbering 1,000, are using dyna-: mite and guns freely. .: The telephone station has peen destroyed, and the clerk burned to. death. It is stated -that the strikers . axe determined to destroy the whole mirie ; which is near Shao\ Troops have already ibeen despatched thither, y : MARITIME CAPTURE IN WAR/ The' Jiuie number of tlie National Review contains, an article by Captain Mahan dealing with the important question of the capture of maritime property at .sea. At the H-ague conference the : question is to be rais-jd, and as the. Lord Chancellor has urged 'in a pamphlet'that property should be exempted from capture, it is rible that this may. be the line taken tbe British Government. Captain Mahan's clear and careful analysis snows the danger of such a proposal. It is. better, he Slinks, that nations should be' compelled! to yield through loss of life, and that humanity would gain nothing by a change in the laws of war. At the same time, England would lose tlie weapon by whioh she Teduced the power of Napoleon' and humbled the pride of the United States hv 1815. ** THE GERMAN COURT SCANDALS. The Times Berlin correspondent says : — It. is sta tod that in addition to Lieutenant General Count Moltke, the ex-Comman-dant of Berlin, Lieutenant-General Count William Hohenaiy, <m_ of the Emperor William's personal aides>-de-camp, has also tendered his resignation. Count Hohenau is step-brother to the late Prince Albrecht qf Prussia, whose father married morgantically,<as' his second _wi£e. a Countess Hohenau.! No such scandal as is represented by the present series of events lias com e to light at the Prussian Court since the anonymous post-card scandal sdme 12, years ago, which led to- the sensational arrest of a high Court official, Baron von Kotze, who afterwards proved to be innocent, and to the fatal duel in which he subsequently shot^ Herr yon Schrader. The Berlin newspaper.-, state that Prince Eulenburg, who, since his retirement from the Embassy in Vienna in 1902, has drawn the full pay of an unattached Ambassador, has resigned, a written refutation *of the charges against. himj.which he submitted: to the Emperor having .ailed in its effect.