NEWS OF THE DAY.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XXX, Issue 8428, 19 April 1906, Page 5

NEWS OF THE DAY.

The American Supreme Court, by a bare majority, has decided that no State can grant a divorce when only one of the parties to the suit is resident in that particular State. It is feared that the decision will be the means of rendering illegitimate twenty thousand children.

A representative meeting held at Sydney Trades Hall, to consider the unemployed question, decided that it was absolutely necessary that a public agitation should be inaugurated with the object of dealing with the problem of want of employment. The death is announced of Sir George O'Brien, late Governor of Fiji.

King Alfonso of Spain, is visiting Princess Ena of Battenberg, at the Isle of Wight. During speed trials at Malta the explosion of a high pressure engine killed three and injured four aboard the battleship Prince of Wales.

Tne Dowager Empress of China has dismissed the Governor of Kiangsi for issuing false reports in connection with the Namchang massacres. The American Trans-Pacific cable to Shanghai has been completed. President Roosevelt and the Dowager Empress and Emperor exchanged congratulations. Something like a boom in ihe bricklayers' line is repotted from Greymoutli. It is said that the bricklayers and stone workers of the district have never been so busy before.

Mr William Btibbert, who died at Florence, bequeathed to Britain a collection of arms, armour, and pictures vvortli a quarter of a million sterling, together with a maintenance fund of £32,000.

Heavy gales, are predicted on the coast and between Bass Straits and New Zealand.

At the Postal Conference, to-day, Sir Joseph Ward (New Zealand) will propose, and the representative of Egypt will second, a resolution in favour of universal penny postage. Great Britain strongly opposes the motion.

The Servian Cabinet has resigned because King Peter has refused to sanction the retirement of the regicides until the ServianAustrian commercial treaty has been concluded.

The weather in Sydney was very sultry yesterday. It was the hottest April experienced for 17 years. The thermometer registered 8S degrees in Sydney, and ranged as high as 101 degrees in the country.

The' Independent Labour Conference, sitting in London, has passed a resolution by a large majority in favour of woman suffrage. The Conference decided by 118 votes to 58 votes to maintain tho Party's organisation policy. It has condemned the Education Bill on the ground that it does not provide for secular education. Walter Maxwell, who has completed his sentence in West Australia for an offence under the Bankruptcy Act, has been arrested at Auckland to answer similar charges in connection with his business failure at Cambridge, Auckland. The Dutch Colonial Press urge, the Dutch Government to facilitate the transport of tin from the mines at Banka and Billiton, in the Dutch East Indies, and to foster the exploration of mines during the present boom.

A supposed extinct volcano at Palma, one of the Canary Islands group, off the northwest coast of Africa, shows signs of activity. The University of Pennsylvania has conferred the degree of Doctor of Laws on King Edward. The death is announced of Father Martin, General of the Order of Jesuits. Mr J. Keir-Hardie, M.P., announces that Sir W. Robson, Solicitor-General, will be entrusted with the Trades Disputes Bill, because he is more sympathetic with Trades Unions demands than Sir John Lawson Walton, Attorney-General. The truth of Mr McCarthy's affidavit in a Blue Book, concerning hanging Chinamen by the wrists, is somi-oilicially denied. The torpedo destroyer, Ardent, collided with and sank torpedo boat No. 84, at Malta. The crew were saved. The villagers being unable to cope with a fire at Haringen, in Alsace-Lorraine, the Fire Brigade at Cale, in Switzerland, hastened to help, but German Customs officials would not allow them to pass unless duties on the engines and appliances were paid. The humanitarian Fire Brigade therefore returned to Cale. A cargo of Victorian wheat has been sold at 3s per quarter. The New Zealand horse Tenakoe, was withdrawn from the Sydney Hurdles, yesterday, owing to one of his legs giving way. A section of the Pan-Germans are now agitating for interference with the AngloFrench agreement in regard to spheres of influence in Siain.