MISCELLANEOUS

Colonist, Volume XLVIII, Issue 11762, 19 October 1906, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS

London, October 17. The President and the Secretary of the Canterbury (New Zealand) Trades and Labor Council, in a letter to the "Manchester Guardian," warns Englishmen against coming to New Zealand, and point out that the I labor market is overstocked, a considerable number of artisans and laborers being idle, chiefly owing to the inrush of British and Australian immigrants. Berlin, Octoberl 7. Herr Tofel, the German explorer, states that he met Japanese officers I acting as spies in remote parts of j China, even far towards Thibet. Many were disguised as Buddhist monks. They incite the natives, playing off the yellow against the white races. Paris, October 17. The visiting Lord Mayor of London in a speech at Paris, described the proposed Franco-British exhibition of 1908 as a materialisation of the entente. M. Donmergne, Minister of Commerce, predicted the^reat success of the Exhibition. Other French j speakers specially associated "the British colonies with the Motherland's energies and prosperity. j |"The sunken Lutin is lying in 122 feet of water. It is | intended. to try and drag the vessel ! into shallower water before raising her. It is feared that all on board have been drowned. Ottawa, October 17. The Dominion Government, alarmed at the influx of East Indians into British Columbia, will introduce restrictive legislation.