BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume L, Issue 12145, 18 March 1908, Page 7

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

(United Presa Assooiation-^-Copyright.i

LONDON, March 16. The " Pall Mall Gazette," dealing with Mr. Deakin's recent speeches on national defence, says that the tone of his speeches is entirely satisfactory." Mr. Deakin candidly faces the situation that Australia is more exposed *to ; danger than any other part of the; Empirei-— Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman- had a good night. In the main his condition is much the; same; but his weakness is" considerable. '

Mrs. Robinson. has been committed for ■trial.: Detective Eade" testified that he had been acquainted for years with the Robinson fiirijily at Waimate', New Zealand. ':: ■'■..-" ..-.•■ : X c. '.■'■.'"■'■■■ "'.••

" The Times' ". Vancouver correspondent states that the immigration situation is becoming an absurd and dangerous muddle. The Supreme Court discharged 18 Hindoos on the ground that the Natal. Act was ultra vires under Order-in-Council. A German 'who quite a desirable immigrant was refused admission because he came from Australia. The' attempt to pi'event the granting of nationalisation papers to Japanese fishermen is causing more indignation among the Japanese than any other anti-Japanese movement on the part of the British Columbian Government.

,* BERLIN, March 16. The Emperor of China's marriage lines hare been, discovered hanging in a; tavern in Southern Germany. They disappeared when ihe, Germans entered the Pekin Palace in 1900.: They are now to be restored to China.

DURBAN, March 16. The Natal Ministers' minute t<o the Government describes Mr. Jellicoe's let- -■• as so patently false as to render it tc-. 2 :-!';c:nptible for notice. ■"•■..: NEW YORK, March 16.

Thanks to wireless telegraph, 600 passengers, including' many women and children, were safely transferred from a burning steamer to another off City Island, in the vicinity of the scene of the General Slocum disaster; -

If the Government refuses to deal Avith President Roosevelt's financial reforms,; extra sessions will probably be summoned. - -

Owing to a number of.^planters in Ekentucky acquiescing in the tobacco tax, night riders in a few mpnths destroyed j ten .million sterling worth of property. ■]■■' ■'; ''■ -■■...'.-■;..-■

Mr^ Hughes, .Governor' of -thb State of New York, has promoted a waxwork exhibition in the Museum ;of Natural History,. which reveals the terrible congdstipn prevailing in the' flats': of New York. ' The conditions under which thousands of families sleepat night and work by day are shown to equaLthose of the worst sweating dens in the East End of .London for uneleanliriess and -cwretchedness. • : : v\ ;