NEWS IN BRIEF.

Waikato Independent, Volume VI, Issue 385, 15 June 1907, Page 4

NEWS IN BRIEF.

Heavy falls of snow are reported from Duuedinand Christchurch. The barque ashore on the\ West Coast, near Mangaowhare. . : It is understood that the Czar and Kaiser will meet at the end of June. The Sultan of Persia has badly defeated his rebel brother. Several serious outrages are reported in Ireland, including firing on farmhouses' and at the police. Tnirty-three municipal bodies in the South of France have resigned in connection with thd' wine trouble. The New South Wales second Rugby team defeated Queensland's second fifteen team by 12 points to 3. Heavy rain has fallen afc Stratford, flooding the streets to -a depth of eighteen inches. Owing to a landslip the engine of a train from Mavton to Taihape capsized. No one wao hurt. -y The preliminary programme in con- . nection with . the band contest at the ,; Thames, has been arranged. McLauchlan has accepted Day's chal- : lenge to run 130, 17G ;and 300 yards at Auckland for £SO aside; The demands of the Wellington Domestic Servants' Union will probably be sent direct to the Arbitration Court. ' In the Auckland Divorce Court, a decree nisi was granted in the suit of Maurice. Burkhardt for a divorce from his wife. ■ There are grave charges" of, serious gambling and money-lending scandals in the German army. A number of officers are now on trial at Munich. The Rand miners' strike'still a serious aspect. They are about to appeal to British miners for funds to help them to secure their demands. It was recently decided in London that a phonograph record was not a copy of a song within the meaning of the Copyright Act. President Roosevelt said he hoped that America's superbly self-reliant individualism would never be exchanged for . deadening Socialism. Twenty-one samples of groceries out of 81 samples examined by the Sydney authorities last month were found to be adulterated. A Clerkenwell (London) magistrate recently stated that the first Offenders Act was very dangerous. It was an Act that had produced more crime in England than anything else he knew of. ',