Recent News.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 8793, 3 December 1906, Page 2

Recent News.

ftA SUMMARY The following is a summary of news which did not appear in Saturday's "Star": — Sir Edward Eeed, former constructor fox the Navy, is dead. V The Town Tenants Bill, Ireland, has been read' a third time in the House of Commons by 201 to 28. ••• Tha Chapter of St Paul's has invited three eminent architects to report on the condition of the Cathedral. *** The. ■ Canadian manufacturers are disappointed'with the tariff. They declare that it does no.t encourage new industries., and does not propose an increase of protection against the United States. ••• The South African foo.tballers, at Swansea, in the presence of fifty thousand, persons, defeated. Wales by eleven points to nil. The visitors obtained two tries in the first half and a goal in the second. **• There are two thousand- homeless persons at Witten It is feared that upwards of a hundred persons perished 1 . Many inhabitants are deaf, the detonations having destroyed their eardrums. The authorities are inquiring into rumours circulated that dynamite was illegally manufactured and stored! in the Robuiite factory. President Roosevelt is in favour of additional legislation, placing international treaties above individual States, and naturalising Japanese desiring American citizenship. American bankers fear that the Japanese attitude will be hostile if Congress refuses to strengthen the Federal Government's hands. The "Times," commenting on .the Federal Government's difficulty in compelling California- to observe the Federal •law bearing on the Japanese question, states that Britain sympathetically watched President Roosevelt's efforts, because one of ,her autonomous colonies had created a similar problem by exclusive legislation. *»* At the Royal Scottish Corporation's St Andrew's Day festival in London, Mr Taverner, Agent-General for Victoria, in proposing the toast of " Tho Imperial Forces," referred to the Commonwealth proposals to establish harbour and coastal defence. He idenied that there was a. vestige of truth in tho. suggestion that Australians desired to cut the painter. They weTe anxious to share in the Empire's responsibilities. They recognised that they must accept the responsibility of doing something for themselves, but always in sympathy and harmony with the Imperial Navy. Whatever Australia would do regarding a local navy, in the ©vent of war it would become immediately a part of the British Navy. *•* Gourko, Assistant Minister of the Interior, a son of the famous Russian general of that name, has been fiercely assailed l in connection with a contract alleged to have been given for many millions of roubles to the proprietor of gambling-houses for the supply of starving peasants with bread. The Ministor is alleged to havo acted under the influence of a dressmaker, giving a contract to Lidval. the proprietor of gaming tables, not connected in any way with the grain business. It is stated that ho merely pocketed the commission, and that Sottkis, the actual purchaser, has disappeared. The Czar has appointed a committee, consisting of Senators and others, including the president of the St Petersburg Bourse, to make an instant inquiry. : *•* The relatives of a merchant named Jefouiries have informed the Paris police that he mysteriously disappeared in 1903, after advancing 3800 francs to Ce3bron and Mario Pesnel. who is alleged to have been Ccbron's associate in extensive swindles in connection with a matrimonial agency. The money was advanced in conneption with Pe=nel's sterilised milk scheme, which preceded the matrimonial agency. It appears that Dr Herbert likewise advanced rnonev in connection with the milk scheme. Dr Herbert, who- is now convalescent, declares that Marie Pesnel ones a«=ked him to write a cheque, remarking that she wished to learn how to draw a cheque. He is now convinced that Cesbron and Pesnel intended io murdter ham and then forge his name, with a. view to withdrawing the two thousand sterling 1 in Ms banking acrsont.