HOWE & FOREIGN.

Waikato Argus, Volume XXVIII, Issue 4322, 10 February 1910, Page 3

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PAYMENT OF MEMBERS. London, February 9. Five thousand delegates of the Labour party are attending a conference at Newport representing 1,481,368 members. The report of the executive states that if the Osborne judgment respecting the use of trade union funds for the support of Labour members remains, unionism will suffer a greater impediment than from the Taff Vale decision. Ijjie report regrets Mr Robert Blatchford’s absurd and wicked outbursts against Germany. It also declares that the new Parliament is unlikely to have a long lease of life, and that the Labour party must prepare for another contest shortly. Received 10.45 p.m,. 9th. London, February 9. The Labour Conference, after a private discussion of the Osborne judgment, resolved that unions ought to be allowed to engage in political activity, provided their members agree and their actions are specified in the union rules and are a part of their declared objects. NEW PLAYS. Paris, February 9. Rostand's new play “Chanticleer was produced in Paris last night before a brilliant audience. The production, including 150 marvellous costumes, representing cocks, hens, pheasants, blackbirds, fowls, etc.,cost £28,000. The play is a fantastic satire on human follies. The lyrical fervour of the verse created a deep impression, despite the eccentric setting. M. Guitry as Chanticleer, Madam Simone as the. hen pheasant, Jean Coqueline as the owl, and Mr Sidney an Australian actor, as the game cock, made great successes of their parts. London. February 9. Mr Chas. Frohrnan is producing the late Mr George Meredith’s unfinished comedy, “The Sentimentalists.” “ A STAR AND HER JEWELS. London, February 9. Lamilo, a music hall artist, Ferdinand Eggena, her husband, and Percy Easton, a motor agent, have been charged at Bow street with obtaining jewels valued at £7OOO sterling by false pretences from W. Wood, jeweller, of Brook street, London. It is alleged that Eggena represented himself as the owner of 25 motor cars. He obtained the jewels, and afterwards pawned them on Larnilo's behalf. Eggena had previously attempted to pawn a pearl necklace worth £30,000. They were remanded. Eggena was allowed bail in £2OO sterling, Easton in £2OOO, and Lamilo in £SOO. AMERICAN POLITICS. New York, February 9. President Taft’s Federal Incoporation of Trusts Bill has been introduced. The measure enables corporations to secure a Federal charter if they like, and thus submit themselves to the strict supervision of the Bureau of Corporations. Though the trusts are authorised to acquire the property, they are debarred from acquiring the stock of other corporations. The Administration believes that this will prevent stock manipulation of the Harriman type, but will permit industrial centaiisation. CHURCH AND STATE. London, February 9. The Primate, in a letter replying to an inquiry by Professor Inge, Cambridge, controverts the Erastian interpretation set upon the judgment of the deceased wife’s sister case against Canon Thompson, of Norwich Cathedral, fo t refusing to admit to communion a member of the congregation who had married his deceased wife’s sister. He adds that Sir L. Dibdiu, Dean of the Arches, said no word implying that the church bad lost its essential right to determine the conditions of admission to Holy Communion. It rests with the Bishop’s Court to ex-communicate or not. The only question before Sir Lewis Dibdin was the validity of the incumbent’s repulsion on his own responsibility. THE PARIS FLOODS. Pans, February 9. The French Government has decided to ask Parliament to grant a further £BO,OOO to compensate the flood sufferers. After falling 14ft, the Seine is again showing a tendency to rise owing to the mild weather melting the snows. Among the suggested preventives for floods in Paris is an overflow canal from St. Maur across the St. Denis plain. OLD CHINA FRAUDS. London, February 9. Arthur Thomas Ellis, who was arrested in Rotterdam in November on the charge of having defrauded the late Mr Charles John Diekins, an elderly gentleman, who was an enthuaaistic collector of old china, by having sold to him forged examples of ware, has been committed for trial. The actual charge is of having obtained £SOO from Mr Diekins by false pretences.

VANCOUVER MAIL SERVICE. Melbourne, February 9. Provisionally to calling tenders for the new service between Australia and Canada, the Postmaster-General has extended the existing contract for another year from July 31st next. Tenders for the proposed new service will be along the present route for three or five years, the contractor to be left to specify any other route, and declaring what the extra or reduced subsidy would be. THE KAISER ANNOYED. Ber'in, February 9. The Kaiser has sentenced the Crown Prince to 48 hours’ detention in the palace at Munich for his thoughtlessness in neglecting to notify the management of a theatre to reserve the Royal box. As a result of this oversight, when the Prince’s party arrived every box was occupied. The Kaiser considered that the dignity of the Hohenzollerns had been compromised. CHESS CHAMPIONSHIP. Vienna, February 9. In the chess championship the fighth game was drawn. Herr Schlechter wins the title fcvo Dr. Lasker if he draws two ■njox> games'or wins one of them.

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SEDITION IN INDIA. Received 9.45 p.m., 9th. Calcutta, February 9. The Indian Legislative Council passed the Anti-Seditious Press Bill after a seven hours’ sitting. Lord Minto caused a sensation by stating that the Government had decided to release the deportees imprisoned fourteen months ago on the ground that the political movement of which they were the leaders had since degenerated into an anarchical conspiracy for waging war against the British and Indian communities alike. It would be long before the evil was exterminated unless both communities would work together, and he. believed the release of the deportees would encourage mutual efforts. The Indian members cheered the announcement. English opinion gravely questions the wisdom of the release, believing that it is due to pressure from Home. London, February 9. The Daily Mail states that if the Liberals remain in office long enough Lord Kitchener will succeed Lord Minto, as the unsettled condition of India demands a Viceroy whose character and training will inspire confidence in Europeans and natives alike. SWEDISH EMIGRANTS. Stockholm, February 9. Swedish newspapers, at the Government’s instance, have published warnings to emigrants from Count Morner, Swedish Consul in Sydney, against proceeding to Australia or New Zealand, stating thiat the difficulties of providing employment are greater than last year. BOMBS BY POST. London. February 9. Dr. Martin Eckenberg, who has been in custody since October on a charge of having sent bombs through the post to persons in Sweden, (jicd yesterday in Brixton prison from apoplexy. KING OF SWEDEN. Stockholm, February 9. The King of Sweden has been suffering from internal pains since Sunday, and His Majesty’s medical advisers diagnosing the case as appendicitis, decided upon an immediate operation. The operation was successfully carried out on Monday at midnight. Received 9.45 p.m., 9th. Stockholm, February 9. |*The King of Sweden is progressing excellently. THE MULLAH AGAIN. Received 8.45 a.m. 10th. London, February 9. The Somali Mullah has pillaged and killed many Somali Britishers, and looted a thousand camels. POISONED AT THE ALTAR. Received 8.45 a.m. 10th. Rome, February 9. A priest at Villa Franca, near Verona, while celebrating mass, fell unconsccious on the altar steps, the wine having been poisoned with sulphuric acid. The crime is attributed to Socialists, between whom and the Catholics there is a bitter feud. TURKEY’S NAVAL COMMANDER. Received 9.45 p.m , 9th. London, February 9. Turkey has appealed to Britain for the services of an Admiral to succeed Admiral Gamble, who recently re- J signed the command of the Turkish , Navy. LONDON COUNTY COUNCIL ELECTIONS. Received 8.45 a.m. 10th. London, February’ 9. Biisk preparations are being made for the county council elections in March, when a great strusggle is foreshadowed.

THE AUSTRALIAN NAVY. Received 8.45 a.in. 10th. London, February 9. The Parramatta, the lirril vessel for the Australian navy, was safely launched. MISS CHARLES WORTH AGAIN. London, February 9. Miss Violet Charlesworth and her mother have been arrested for obtaining money in Derby by false pretences. Received 8.45 a.in. 10th. London, February 9. , The Charlesworlhs were committed to Derby prison, being unable to find bail. Their alleged fraud was committed between 1903 and 1908. Miss Charlesworth is the young lady ot demure , village-maiden appearance, who gambled in thousands on the Stock Exchange, on the strength of a mythical fortune, and who, to escape her difficulties, one of which was a loan of £IO,OOO from her brokers, wrecked a motor car on a Welsh sea-clifl, and disappeared. The newspapers of the United Kingdom palpitated for weeks with the mystery of how a woman could be shot through the glass dust-screen of a motor car, over cliffs into the sea, as her chauffeur said Miss Charlesworth had been, without leaving any traces of having done so. Ultimately they discovered the enterprising young lady serenely contemplating apart in some quiet corner of the Highlands. While everybody was enjoying a breathless pause, and wondering what was going to happen next, it was midly announced that Mias Charlesworth was desirous of meeting her creditors, and presently was going to appear nightly at two metropolitan music halls, at a salary of £3OO a week. Her turn was a play entitled “A Clever Woman.” It ran for 14 minutes, and explained how a girl can bamboozle a shrewd stockbroker. - A NEW ZEALANDER’S ESTATE. Receiveed 8.45 a.m. loth. London. February 9. The estate of Louis Arthur Nathan is assessed at £57,960.

THE NORTHERN LEAGUE. Received 8.45 a.m. 10th. London, February 9. The Northern Football Union has decided that the finances do not warrant sending a team to Australia on terms leas than originally offered. IMMIGRATION TO VICTORIA. Received 8.45 a.m., 9th. London, February 9. Mr Taverner has chosen a dozen respectable lads from the nominations from the Stratford Emigration Office for a year’s training on Victorian farms. Their ages are from 16 to 18 years, and they are chiefly show boys and factory hands. SHIPPING PROFF'S. Hamburg, Fel reary 9. The Hamburg Americar shipping Company’s 1909 profits an canted to £1,600,000 sterling.