BRITISH AND FOREIGN

Star (Christchurch), Issue 9192, 23 March 1908, Page 1

BRITISH AND FOREIGN

VniUd Pram Association— By Electrio Telegraph— Copyright. STATE SECRETS. LONDON, March 21. Lord Loreburn, Lord High Chancellor, has introduced a Bill providing for imprisonment for the disclosure of 6tate secrets. THE PAGE ESTATES. Mr Justice Eve, declining to disturb _wner_' titles dating back eighty years, refused the application of the claimant jto the Page estates, covering nearly ihalf Middlesex, for the appointment of .* receiver manager. ' ETHERGR_VMS. ■' Ethergraph apparatus is beipg installed at the Admiralty Buildings, London, : to communicate with the naval ports and warships at eea. PROFESSOR RUTHERFORD HONOURED. The Turin Academy of Science has Awarded the Bressa prize to Ernest -Rutherford, professor of physics at the Manchester University. .CANADIAN IMMIGRATION. The "Daily Telegraph" strongly protests against Canada's restrictive regulations excluding emigrants whose passages are paid wholly or partly by charitable organisations. Such a policy, it States, is bound to influence some democracies, in view of Canada being the < greatest self-governing State. ABDUCTING A CHILD. The Hon James ' Gully has been sejafcenced by Judge Warrington tfo six inreeks' imprisonment from the date of his arrest. (The .Hon James Gully is separated from his wife, who has legal custody of their child. Early in February ?.e abducted the child, and on March 15 he was arrested for the offence.) THE BRITISH PREMIER. The Premier's condition is unchanged. A STEAMER LOST. ADEN, March 21. The German-Australian liner Laeiez, from Sydney to Hamburg, struck a rock and foundered in the Red Sea. The crew took to the, boats, and were rescued/ and landed at Aden. It is stated that after the captain had set the course he retired to rest. The officers misunderstood the course. The vessel struck a rock in latitude 22deg _,orth, longitude 35deg. THE RUSSIAN NAVY. ST PETERSBURG, March 21. M. Stolypin accepts the decision of ]b-te committees in rejecting his programme for the construction of the battle-hips. The. "Times" comments on the substantial proof of constitutional progress. A BIG SCHEME. PARIS, March 21. The prefect of the Seine submitted to the Paris municipality a scheme to {beautify the city at a cost of twentyfour millions sterling, two millions to He devoted to the extinction of tuberculosis, and the entire cost to be provided by continuing the existing sinking fund for thirty-seven years!,