MISCELLANEOUS.

Colonist, Volume XLIX, Issue 11964, 18 June 1907, Page 4

MISCELLANEOUS.

London, Juno 16. In the lawn tdnnis Wilding beat Gore in the final for tho dharnpion* ship of Kent. Goro and Roper Barrett defeated Brookes and Wilding in the doublo3. The women of Norway have been granted the Parliamentary franchise. Ottawa, June 16. The> PiC3byfcetlaii Assembly of Canada decided by 137 to 11 to support tho piojected union between Piesbyterians, Methodists,' and Oongresntibnalists under the name of the Uui'tCd Protestant Church; | New York, June 16. The longshoreman's strike has collapsed. The strikers fiercely attacked non-unionists heretofore employed in their plnees, using clubs nnd knives. Twenty non unionist? have been seriously wounded. News from Trinidad states that the Ohamber of Commerce and Agricultural Society there have protested against the withdrawal of the Sugar Convention, declaring that it will extinguish local industry. .tex-Mayor SchuiitsS. of San Francisco, has been convicfc9d of extorting money from restaurants, lie is liable to a sentence of five years. He is at present detained in gaol, the judge refusing bail. The appeal proccodin s may continue a year.