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Press, Volume LX, Issue 11493, 28 January 1903, Page 7

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United Preea Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. BRITISH TRADES UNION LAW. (Received January 27tJi. 7.42 a.m.) LONDON, January 26. Professor Haldane advisee tihe Trades Unions to ask the Government to appoint a Royal Commission, consisting of two judges and one expert layman, to determine tihe present position of Union law, and to advise a* to the real principles winch, rightly govern picketing. AN EXTENSIVE FIRE. A fire destroyed Todd'e haberdashery warehouse at Armagh, doing damage to the extent of £100,000. CORRUPT MUNICIPAL ELECTION. ■ An enquiry into the municipal election at Shrewsbury showed that out of 661 persons who voted, two-thirds had been bribedDUBLIN'S LORD MAYOR. Mr T. C. Harrington, M.P., was reelected by 43 votes to 28 Lord Mayor of Dublin. [Mr Timothy Gbas. Harrington is M.P. for Dublin (Harbour Division), and was born at. Castktown Bero, Co. Cork, in 1851.] THE PEASENHALL MURDER. There is a strong feeling in favour of retrying William Gardiner at tihe Old Bailey on the earliest possible dote, or dropping tb» prosecution. Regret in expressed at the absence of the Scottish "non-proven" system. [A cable message yesterday stated that the jury had again tailed to agree, after a four days' trial, in tbe Peasenhall murder cause, and that Gardiner, wtho is charged with tihe murder of the girl Rose Anne Harsent, would be re-tried in June.] CZAR AND OZARITZA TO VISIT ROME. ST. PETERSBURG, January 26. The Czar and <-zaritza will vkit Rome early in April, PILGRIMS' ROUTE TO MECCA. CONSTANTINOPLE, January 26. The Porte haa agreed to tbe Khedive's claim ti&at he has a right to change the rout* of the Egyptian pilgrims to Mecca. STROMBOLI IN ERUPTION. ROME, January 26. QtromboU is again active, and the country has been shaken. Loud detoa*,tione followed the eruption. THE SOUTH AFRICAN LABOUR PROBLEM. CAPETOWN, «anuary 26. Johannesburg is depressed, fearing the solution of the labour question will be delayed for years. THE ALASKA BOUNDARY. (Received January 27th, 10.37 p.m.) . NEW YORK, January 27. America agrees to Skagway and Dye* being included in the sphere of ££« Alaskan boundary arbitration. A reference ha* been made to Canada, with a view to her being represented on Che Commission. [Skagway and Dyea are two towns at tbe head of Lynn Canal, situated nearly midway between the boundary daisied by Canada and that claimed by the United States.} AUSTRIAN ROMANCE. VIENNA, January 27, The Archduke Eugene, of Austria, brother of Queen Maria Chrkfcina, of Spain, wishes to renounce urn birthright Iα oxdVr to marry a tradesman* daughter. AMEER AND VICEROY. ! (Received January 27th, 11 pjn.) J CALcuTTA, January 27, The Ameer of Afghanistan ham expressed his desire to visit L«rd Cunroa, the Vioeroy ot ladift,

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