MISCELLANEOUS.

Colonist, Volume XLIX, Issue 11960, 13 June 1907, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS.

raw London, June 11." 1 Iv con ""tion with the "most favored iat v" conditions in the UnitFd Srarep, the British Government is authorising the Chambers of Commerce to grant certificates of value to exports. Mr Gladstone, Florae Secvutary, is almost chily pressed to stcure the with fraw 1 of the ban on the opera * ' The Mikado. ' ' Yesterday the band /on the Japanese flagship Tsukuba, / at Chatham, was found playing //'many of the airs of "The Mikado, " which ia part of their repertoire. Following are the main features of the Transvaal precedent letterspatent of Orancia'a Constitution:— A Legislative Council: 11 members are to be nominated, first by the Governor, with the right to be converted into nn elective chamber by the Legislature nfter four years. Assembly: Of 30 members, whereof five will represent Blomfontein. A separate Land Board is created for five years, with security for pensions for such officials in the Land Settlement Department aa are retained, md a liberal cocstruction is to be put on setters' rights. King Edward expresses confidence that the inhabitants will increasingly enjoy the prosperity and contentment distinguishing Orangia in the past. The newspapers hope that the risks will be minimised after Mr Botha's speeches, and the fact that such a typical Afrikander as Mr Smuts has cow drafted tne Education Bill, which was welcomed by the whole «>f the Transvail press. The measure seeks to make a thorough knowledge of English universal, and withdraws patronage from the separatist Dutch School?. Mr Smuts, at the Hetvolk Congress, remarked that education had surerseded the rifle as the weapon of the Afrikander people. Playing against Middlesex, Schwarz"tooS six wickets for 27. Banbury beat the New Zealand bowlers by 47 to 36. Mr J. R. Wilton, of South Australia, 'is Fifth Wrangler for the mathematical tripos at Cambridge. '■; •••.■ Paris. June 12. The Franco Japanese Treaty has been signed here. It guarantees the status quo of Eastern Asia and China's independence and integrity. The Russo-Japanese agreement is also ready. Four Powers thus guarantee the Par Eastern status quo. There has* been serious rioting at Montpellion over the wine adultera-tion-trouble, when the Montpellier cafes weie sacked. A troop of cavalry and a company of infantry quelled the disturbances and 1G arresta warei made. The-. "Mali u" states that the Czir; and the Kaiser meet at the end of June aboard the Rassian Impetial yacht in thn North Sna. New Yoik, June 11. Reports have. reached Mexico that M. Estrada-Cabrera, President of Gautemala, has been assassinated. The creditors of Milliken Bros., seel bridge builders, New York, have applied for the appointment of a receiver. The Milliken's lawyer states tbat the liabilities are £L,300,000.and tbe.a=.«ets £1,800,000. Mrs May Pepper, the celebrated New York spiritualist, has married Edward Ward Vandetblit, whose family are applying for a sequestration of estates on the ground that Pepper iofluencedyandorbilfc throneV a suiiabtly spirit known in New York . society as "Little Bright Eyes." Teheran, June 11. Salar-ed -Dowleb, the brother of the Shah of Persia, who is in revolt, has been badly defeated. Salar-ed-DoTvleh, on bis defeat, fled, and lrst 50 followers during pursuit by the Kalhur cavalry. r Norfolk Island, June 12. The 51st anniversary of the Colony Was celebrated by a pionic, and sports, in fine weather.