News of the Week

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXXI, Issue XVIII, 31 October 1903, Page 22

News of the Week

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Whitaker Wright’s trial has been postponed until November to enable him to prepare his defence. France is preparing judicial arbitration treaties with Italy, Holland, Sweden and Norway. The death is announced of the Kight Hon. William Edward Hartpole Lecky, P.C., M.P-, the famous historian, at the age of 64The official estimate of the English hop yield is Bjcwt per acre, giving a total production of 421,078 cwt, as against 689,380 cwt last year. The New Zealand Agricultural Company proposes to reduce its capital by one-half, returning the shareholders 10/ per shareA Siemens electric car on the Zossen railway, in Germany, put up another record, attaining a speed of 128 mil.**, an hour. Sir Wilfrid Laurier states that the Canadian Government must consider the building of an all - Canadian route to Yukon, the capital of the Klondyke mining district. The United Irish League has selected Mr Patrick Dempsey to oppose Mr Ar-nold-Forster at the election following on the appointment of the latter as Secretary of State for War. King Leopold’s mission to Vienna in regard to the attitude of Great Britain on the question ox the Belgian rule in the Congo Free State has ended in failure. The Emperor Franz Josef contented himself with advising the King of the Belgians to refer the question to the Arbitration Tribunal at The Hague. William Booty, an elderly London solicitor, was sentenced to seven years’ penal servitude for misappropriating £25,000 of his clients’ money. He speculated in building to the extent of a quarter of a million. The deficiency is £144.000, consisting largely of trust money. Mrs. Frances Day was sentenced at Exeter to six months’ hard labour for gross and unnatural cruelty. It appeared that this person exposed her daughter, who is 14 years of age, in tho garden all night, and charges were also proved of burning and cutting her flesh, and other barbarities.