A SUMMARY.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 8907, 19 April 1907, Page 2

A SUMMARY.

Th» following is a summary of nawa which did not appear in yasterdny's "Star": — A case of plsg-no is reported ct Kedfern and another at Sussex Street, Sydney. *** •General E MacGregor Stewart, Governor of Bermudas, ha-s resignod on private grounds. Two sisters have- been found to be suffering from leprosy at Chapters (Towers, Queensland, and have been isolated. ••* In the House, of Commons, Sir Edward Sfrachey, in moving th© seoond r&ading- of the 'Margarine Bill, remarked that it aimed at stopping adulteration at the source. The debate was adjourned. W. P. Crick declares that the Crown haying suddenly changed front and attacked his administration of the New South Wales Lands Department, even if the case ran into two or three months, he wiil combat the- charge. ••• Mr Hughes, mentioned by a, cable message yesterday as engaging labov.r in Vienna-, is mi employe* of the Colonial Sugar Company, and is not Mr W. M. Hughes. The company despatched him -to Europe to engage labour for the Queensland sugar growers. He has authority to secure 1030 men. Owing to the hostility encountered in Berlin and°Vienna, Italy will withdraw her compromise proposal intended to -facilitate tho discussion of Sir Henry Campbell-Eanner- ' man's limitation of armament proposal at the Habile Convention. The newspaper ''Vader-la-iid," published at The Hague-, remarks that the beautiful -but -theoretical prospects opened by Britain's declaration have vanished, but tho •consequences of a breach in the Triple Alliance might have been graver still. A man suffering from anthrax has been admitted to the Melbourne Hospital. The chairman of the Board of Health states that careful investigation shows -that last -week a firm of stock and utivtion agents imported consignments of hides from *ew Zealand. They were shipped on a- coastal steamer at New Plymouth, and afterwards placed aboard the Monowai. Only one bundle of k£« -was handled at Melbourne, and from this the man appears to have contracted the disease. The schooner W'hangaroa. from Whangape, was towed in to Sydner yesterday ■ m a «rip- y pled condition. Taxiing been in collision durfne the previous nipht with on, unknown vessel. She states that the mishap occurred twenty miles off the Heads A barque- had been reported some time befora and vfhil* i!«fvmo- for her lights she suddenly oame down f,pon theWha^ngaroa. The crew shouted and blow a whistle as * ™m* to keep off but no notice was taken. The barquo struck tho schooner a slicing blow, carrying away the Sopmast and bowspnt, and then swung cW She continued her voyage without even » 1-t.o- if ihe- Whanearoa, "wanted assistance. Saint! Joseph, bound tror* »» ** A-w«*-«-.