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Waikato Independent, Volume VII, Issue 463, 21 January 1908, Page 5

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OFFSHOOT OF THE DBUCE CASE. TEIAL FOE PERJUKY. London, Jan. 20. Miss Robinson, the witness from New Zealand in the Druce perjury case, has been remanded for a week on a charge of perjury. Sir Albert De Rutzen, who presided, refused bail. Sir Charles Mathews stated that Miss Robinson's evidence was a tissue of falsehoods, and it was difficult to believe that so elaoorate a story could be put forward without assistance. He hoped inquiry would discover the source, and it would possibly be necessary to bring witnesses from New Zealand. The police testimony alleged that Miss Robinson was the daughter of a policeman named Webb and married a butcher named Robinson. When told this, Miss Robinson explained: "Good God, who told you this." Miss Robinson's sister has been traced to Hull. SUFFRAGETTE DEMONSTRATION. FOUR SENT TO GAOL London, Jan. 20. The four suffragettes arrested outside Sir Henry Campbell-Ban Herman's house have refused to sign any recognisance as to their future good behaviour and have been sent to gaol for three weeks, THE LONDON TIMES. London, Jan. 19. The proprietors of The Times state that no sale of the paper has yet been effected nor airy decision regarding the mode or terms of sale reached. ARREST OF RUSSIAN TERRORISTS. Paris, Jan. 20. The Paris police have arrested two Russian Terrorists. They also claim to have secured documents revealing the whole organisation of the revolutionary movement, and letters directly affecting the Czar's safety. A MENAGERIE. London, Jan. 20. The steamer Suevic conveys the Zoological Society's collection of elands, antelopes, swans, tapirs, and ostriches for the Societies at Perth, Melbourne and Sydney. A WORLD TOUR, New York, Jan. 20. The Field Museum, at Chicago, is despatching Dr. Dorsey, the curator, on a world mission to study anthropology. He will devote six months to the South Pacific, Australia and New Zealand. JAPAN PREPARING. St. Petersburg, Jan. 20. St Petersburg newspapers affirm that Japan is accumulating vast stores preparatory to war. THE FINANCIAL PANIC. New York, Jan. 20. The State Banking Department's report shows that a decrease of 72,400,000 dollars in the resources of the trust companies of New York took place between August 22nd and December 19th. MID-DEVON BY-ELECTION. RIOTOUS LIBERALS. London, Jan. 19. The by-election for Mid-Devon, to fill the .vacancy caused by the sitting member, Mr Harry T. Eve, K.C. (Liberal), being appointed a member of the High Court, has resulted in the return of Captain E. F. MorrisonBell (Unionist), who polled 5191 votes to Mr Buxton's (Liberal) 4632 votes. (Received Jan. 21, 7.35 a.m.) London, Jan. 20. Riotous scenes followed the declaration of the poll at Newton Abbot. The Liberal mob beseiged the Constitutional Club for hours, and broke every window and assaulted Mesdames Pankhurst and Martell, by rolling them in the mud, for working against the Liberals.

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THE THAW CASE. (I'ER PRESS ASSOCIATION, . Received Jan. 21, 8.49 a.m. New York, Jan. 20. Efforts made here to take Mrs Evelyn Thaw's testimony privately failed. The Court has also decided that all names of persons connected with her history must be mentioned publicly. The decision has created a sensation as the persons were concerned in the former trial. PARKER'S FIRE. New York, Jan. 20. According to the New York World, the fire at Parker's building was the work of an Armenian, after a fruitless attempt to blackmail a firm of Armenian merchants. Avho were tenants of the fourth floor. SUSPECTED THIEF ARRESTED London, Jan. 20. George Flynnfoot has been arrested for stealing a diamond tiara, valued at £ISOO, from Melton Hall, Marlborough, in Yorkshire, which he had buried in a manure heap. A POLITICAL PROPHET. London, Jan. 20. Mr Winston Churchill predicts the following measures for coming sessions :—I9OB, old age pensions; 1909, taxation of land values ; 1910, curbing the power of the Lords.