NEWS OF THE DAY.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume LVI, Issue 8625, 6 December 1906, Page 5

NEWS OF THE DAY.

A man was found dead at Armidale (313 miles north of Sydney), last night, with a pin embedded in his heart. A witness before the committee on grain elevators staged that not one-fifteenth of the land of New South Wales, suitable for wheat, had been worked. The Attorney General of New South Wales has prepared a statement, showing that the enforcement of the Gaming Act had worked a revolution in suppressing streetbetting and Chinese and other gnmbling dens.

The Victorian Assembly passed a Bill, providing drastic measures for the prevention of disorderly conduct at public meetings. Hon. Alfred Dobson was re elected Agent General for Tasmania.

The American visible supply of wheat is seventy-six million bushels.

The' Governor of Bagdad has been dismissed for levying illegal taxes and causing the Arabs to levolt.

Floods in Arizona destroyed a dam, wrecked the Copper Queen hotel, and the business portion of the town of Clifton. Fifty persons were drowned. A Sydney message states that a verdict was given for defendants in the case wherein a wharf labourer claimed £1000, as compensation for injuries, against the Union Steamship Co. A. Clark, of Wynyard (224 miles northwest of Hobart), has won the world'sehopping championship. Forty per cent, of the moneys placed at the disposal of the Unemployed Act Distress Committee, at Southward, has been shown to have been expended in salaries and other administrative expenses.

In the House of Lords, on Tuesday, the Trades Disputes Bill was read a second time without division.

The recent outbreak of plague amongst the prisoners at Manila is due to a visitor, in the absence of a responsible medical officer, inadvertently exchanging culture tubes.

The court martial in connection with the recent stokers' riot at Portsmouth has ordered Lieut. Collard to be reprimanded for compelling a single stoker to kneel in November, 1905, when reproved for impertinence. It acquitted Lieut. Collard for ordering the stokers to kneel in November last.

Victoria, New South Wales ancl Queensland have small exhibits of dried fruits and models at the Horticultural Society's Show in London.

The Catholic Bishops of Westminster have resolved that they are unable to accept the Education Bill as a settlement even as amended by the House of Lords. The vice-President and manager of the Auckland savings bank handed the Board of Education a cheque for £10,000, donated by the Trustees of the institution for the purpose of technical college in Auckland. The manager mentioned that thirty-three years ago, when he took sole charge, the bank's profits for the year were only £300. Mr Hobbs, vice-President of the Bank made a personal donation of £100 towards the same object.

Owing to suggestion made in connection with Voight's t< ail the Kaiser has ordered the introduction of a Bill in Parliament to stop the police worrying discharged convicts. Eighteen revolutionaries were arrested at Lamboff. A quantity of correspondence and arms were also seized.

The Transvaal Government refuses to sanction the Victoria Falls electric power scheme for the Rand on the grounds that the syndicate has not complied with the colonial laws.