Yesterday's News.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 8585, 29 March 1906, Page 2

Yesterday's News.

A SUMMARY. The following is a summary of news which did not appear in yesterday's "Star": — The Criminal Appeal Bill was read a second time in the House of Lords. Italy asks that the next Hague Conferences should regulate submarine methods of warfare. % # The Japanese Diet has passed the Customs Bill. The average rate of duty is 13 per cent. V Durnan, the Canadian oarsman, will visit Australia in September, to arrange a match witlj Stanbury. *♦* Divergent views in the Cabinet delayed the Trades Disputes Bill. Mr Asquith is its chief opponent. The Labourites demand complete immunity for trade union funds. V A court-martial at Nantes acquitted two officers of disobedience on the occasion of in-ventory-taking. The Government will retire the officers and transfer all officers at Nantes to other distriots. V In the House of Commons the Right Hon R. B. Haldane, Secretory of War, stated that it was not intended io station troopß at Weihaiwei. It was intended to withdraw the St Helena garrieon, replacing it in w&r time. V President Roosevelt, in a message to Congress, recommends the passing of a law for the preservation of Niagara Falls. He suggests that the law should be operative for three years if there should be no treaty with Canada in the meantime. V The Algeciras Conference approved of the American delegate's amendment, introduced in the hope of reconciling French and German views as to the inspectorship. Baron von Radowitz and M. Revoil assented, pending reference to their Governments. V Lord Onslow inquired what steps had been taken to require foreign insurance companies to keep in Great Britain sufficient assets to meet British policyholders' claims. He was informed that the Government was appointing a select committee on the matter. In the House of Comjnons Sir Edward Grey, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, said that the Sinai Peninsula had for generations been recognised as under Egypt's administration. The Turkish trespass at Tabah could not be allowed to continue. Negotiations were proceeding. . ' •••■ Riotous students at Bucharest, objecting to a performance in French instead of in Roumanian, at the National Theatre,- caused the intervention of the troops and cavalry, who charged through the streets. Two hundred and fifty students and many women and children were injured. A hundred and fifty soldiers and police, and six officers were injured. There were several fatalities.