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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 81909, 21 December 1906, Page 3

GENERAL CABLES.

.SOUTH AUSTRALIAN FRAXC'UISE ; BILL. 1 Adelaide, December 20. Further trouble is threatened over the Franchise Bill. The Legislative Council has materially amended the qualifications aud inserted provision fur » referendum of Council electors oil tile Bill. FRAUDULENT LIKE INSURANCE OFFICIAL. New York, Dccemhor 1!). George Burnham, vice-president of the Mutual Reserve Life Society, was sentenced to two years' imprisonment on a charge o£ larceny. CANADA'S NATURALISATION LAW. Ottawa, December ID. 11l the Dominion Parliament, the Premier (Sir Wilfrid Laurier) moved the second reading of a Hit! recognis ing, without imposing the casual term of residence, naturalisation conferred by any other portion o£ the Empire. AMERICA'S SOCIAL BLOT. Washington, December 19. The Unitiil Stales .Senate has aof thorised .Mr 0. S. Strauss (Secretary for Labour) to investigate the reports regarding the industrial, moral, and phyUcal condition of women aud children engaged in labour in the L B ;J«d States. SIR lIEXIJ x UlVINtf MEMORIAL. London, DecPn'hcv 19. A meeting of the theatrical pro/'S' sion, held in Ijomlon, resolved to erect ■i statue to the late Sir Henry frv- , ing. Managers, aetors, actresses, and dramatic authors of the United Kingdom and America have heel', in' , vit.-d to participate. .Miss Ellen Terry, the well known actress, is pro motion a national memorial in 'he form of a mu-euin, literary and pie ' lure gallery.

LAXD SKITM-;MKXT at Loudon, December W. Karl favours Km- est:ib iisfunont of a centra! authority to ;i----local authorities in the creation of snml! iioMitis. MKLIJOt'IIXJJ CUUIfXC Melbourne, December I'-'. Tin* lmildinu 1 rejected a jiro for au oji.il conference, TIED iIOLSJ-S. Melbourne December '2O. The Council struck out of the Lie. n-dni: Jiii! tin' clause ileciii illegal ai:d void agix''.menU in Lu tied liou.-e?.

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