News of the Week

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXX, Issue XIX, 9 May 1903, Page 1285

News of the Week

Forest lire-, have destroyed the town of Kimball in thet State of Wisconsin.

Sir William Harcourt is ill with a severe attack of rheumatism.

The underwriters of the American Steel Trust made 200 per cent, profit.

Five hundred of the Johannesburg Mounted Rifles have volunteered for the Somaliland campaign.

The Shaw. Savill and Albion Company has declared a dividend of live per cent., and carried forward £2265.

A mounted white man was amongst the Somalis who attacked Colonel Gough’s column on the 23rd inst.

The percentage of guuncry practice in the British Mediterranean fleet has been raised from 33 1-3 to over 50.

General Miles, after visiting the Philippines. charges American troops with cruelty to the Filipinos.

The members of the Pretoria Corpora tion arc resigning owing to the Govern meat’s policy in regard to the town com monages ■"

Thirty thousand people have subscribed towards the Lancashire movement in favour of cotton-growing within the British Empire.

The Earl of Yarmouth has married Miss Alice Shaw, the daughter of an American railway, millionaire. The bride has a dowry of £ 20,000 a year.

Mr Reid has opened his Tasmanian campaign in the interests of free trade and a sound revenue tariff. He addressed a great meeting in u»e Town. Hall. The official plague statement published at Simla shows that 156 districts and 109 towns in India are infected, and that the weekly mortality reaches

President Leubet, speaking at Bizerta, declared that the port was impregnable, and added, that while France threatened none she meant to uphold her interests and honour throughout the world.

The “World’’ newspaper says that Cardinal Vaughan is in a very serious condition. Even if his life is prolonged it is unlikely that he will again participate in active work.

Eighty-seven members of the London Stock Exchange started on a walk from ■Westminster to Brighton, a distance of 52J miles. The winner, JJIr Broad, covered the distance in nine and a ajuarter hours.

Sixty thousand people witnessed the St. Louis Exposition dedication ceremonies. President Roosevelt delivered an eloquent address. Ex-BFesident Cleveland was greeted with remarkable enthusiasm.

Mr Andrew Carnegie Jias added to his recent gift to the Hague arbitration tribunal in aid of international peace, a further-gum of £40,000, to purchase a library of diplomacy and international law.

The features of one of the newlysculptured ' figures of the prophets it Metz Cathedral, which has just been unveiled, proved to be those of the Kaiser. He is represented as wearing a long cloak.

The Bank of Australasia has declared a dividend of live pgr cent. The chairman declared that-the operation of the income tax was most inequitable, resulting in the withdrawal of large sums of British capital.

Five American and five Japanese engineers o:;mected with the construction of the Hankan-Canton railway were mobbed by Chinamen. They then barricaded themselves in the Bhuddist tenjple until an American guaboat was sent to their rescue.

At the meeting of the shareholders of the OricnUlJaeifle .Steam Navigation Company, Mr Frederick Green, who presided, said that the tendency of all legislation in Australia was to diminish the earnings of steamships and make the future mail contracts more eostlv-

In the House of Commons Mr Arnold Foster stated that the present average expenditure upon ethergrams in the navy was £20,000 per annum. In the House of Lords I.ord Avebury’s Early Closing of Shops Bill was read a second

The Prince of Wales has informed the St. Louis Exposition Commission that the Government has placed a preliminary vote of £30.000 on the Estimates towards the cost of representation. He expressed the hope that Britain would make a collective, not an individual, dis. play.

The annual report of the OrientPaeific Steamship Company shows a credit balance of £1272. The managers will contribute the balance necessary to pay the dividend on preferred shares, and it is proposed to pay a dividend of 5 per cent, on deferred shares out of the deferred reserve account.

The Bishop of London, in addressing the Diocesan Conference, scathingly condemned the Rev. E. M. Evans, formerly Vicar of St. Michael's, Shoreditch, who recently joined the Roman Church, for surreptitiously introducing forbidden services into his church, and deceiving his bishop.

Mr T. M. Wilford, M.H.R.. of New Zealand. in an interview published in the "Daily News," declared that the Privy’ Council’s strictures on the New Zealand Government and judiciary were unwarrantable and unjust, and straining the silken thread of Imperialism. There should, of necessity, he said, be a more representative body of judges for colonial appeals.

London “Times’’ says the remarkable protest of the New Zealand judges merits serious and respectful attention. Though it overrates the grievance it would be wise to give the utmost attention to the susceptibilities of independent colonial Courts which are keen to resent grave charges.