Yesterday's News.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 8808, 21 December 1906, Page 2

Yesterday's News.

A SUMMARi. The follo,-*ing is a summary of news which did not appear in yesterday's "Star":— j The South African footballers defeated ; Surrey by thirty-three points to nil. *** The police located the quarters of the militant section of the Social Democratic League and arrested over one hundred. Judge FitzHarding.e has heen appointed a Royal Commissioner to inquire into the Crick-Willis jury case. He will sit tomorrow. V A "band of Terrorists attacked a tram at Slonim, in the government of Grodno, and liberated twenty-five political prisoners, after killing four guards and wounding seven. * M * Professor Koch assisted: two English doctors in curing thousands of cases of sleeping sickness in the Victoria Nyanza district by means of a specific known as atoxyl, which exterminates the germs cf the disease in the blood within six hours. • At the annual meeting of the - National Mutual Lifo Association, the chairman stated that the past year constituted a record for new business, annual income, and addition to funds. The increased business, mainly in Australia and New Zealand, was obtained at less ratio of cost to result than in any previous year. The report wr.s adopted. The retiring directors were re-elected. A furious feeling prevails in San Francisco over Mr Metcalf'-s report on the Japanese. Feeling against the Japanese is so acute that it is feared that nothing President Roosevelt or tho Federal G-oveniment can do will have tho slightest effect to improve the situation. Race-feeling is spreading all over the Pacific slope. The Eastern Press unanimously endorse President Roosevelt's attitude. *** Tha New South Wales Immigration Department informed Mr Taylor that unless he paid £16, the value of the concession in his j passage money from London, it wou'.d put I tho law in motion to prevent him leaving for I New Zealand. Messrs Alien and Allen and i Hemslcy, solicitors, on behalf cf Taylor, replied that there was no power to prevent his departure, indicating that if ar.y breach of agreement had occurred it was on the part of -the Government. Mr Taylor left by the Maheno without any interference 0.1 the part of tho authorities. *«* "W. P. Crick appeared before the Full Court, at Sydney, to show cause why he should not be struck off the roll, of solicitors. Tho ground of the citation was the finding of the Lands Commission, that, of sums of money reoeived by Peter Cicse as a land agent in respect of lands then being dealt with by the Minister of Lands, Crick, who was Minister, received half. The proceedings against Crick were initiated on behalf of the Incorporated L-aw Institute. Mr G. H. Reid and Mr "Walker appeared for Crick, who in an affidavit set out the necessity for a postponement- to enablo him to prepare his case. Ha declared that he had r.ot b~en guilty of any offence against the law of tho State. Mr Reid, in a lengthy argument in favour of postponement, said that ihey asked for an opportunity to bring fenvard such explanations as would lead the Court to the conclusion that the finding of tho Lands Commission was wrong. The Chief Justice said that the only, thing the Court was concerned about was the finding- that Crick received half Close's fees. Eventually a postponement was ] granted till the first day of the next term in February.