THE THAW TRIAL.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2037, 23 March 1907, Page 3

THE THAW TRIAL.

NEW YORK, March 21. There has been a dramatic development in tho Thaw case. Mr. Jerome, District Attorney, who is conducting tho prosecution, suggested that a Commission in Lunacy he set up to consider Thaw’s mental condition. Mr. Justice Fitzgerald, sitting without a jury, considers tho application to-day.

The Times’ New York correspondrlent reports that' prominent physicians declare that Thaw is suffering from paronia. It has been stated, but not in evidence, that he cannot live eighteen mouths. Received 10.4 p.m. March 22. MOW YORK, March 22. Mr. Jerome presented to Judge Fitzgerald affidavits signed by seven specialists, certifying that Thaw was insane. The case was adjourned to await Mr. Delmar’s reply to Jerome’s case for the Lunacy Commission. BRITISH POLITICS. Received 10.4 p.m. March 22. LONDON, March 22. The House of Commons sat continuously for twenty-seven hours, duo to the Opposition resenting a breach of the arrangements for business. Mr. Balfour, towards the close, warmly protested against the Government’s reckless breach of a Parliamentary pledge. In the House of Lords Lord Crewe announced that Government were opposed to the Channel tunnel.

Lord Lansdowne stated that he retained the opinion that the tunnel would- bo a great . convenience, but did not believe it possible to convince the nation that we would run no risk by the tunnel. Hence its construction would occasion a new source of anxiety in peace time, and a grave additional cause of anxiety in wartime.

Major-General Baden-Powell, replying to correspondents, considers he tunnel, from a statagic stanricint, would be a mistake. A special meeting of the London Chamber of Commerce resolved, by a large majority, that the fiscal system was no longer suitable to the needs of the country.

TRANSVAAL PARLIAMENT. INAUGURAL SPEECH. Received 10.4 p.m. March 22. PRETORIA, March 22. The Transvaal Legislative Assembly, after electing General Beyers speaker, proceeded to the Upper House, where Lord Selborno delivered the inaugural sueoch. Ho announced that Ministers were resolved that the importation of Chinese must cease at the earliest possible date, but not repatriated until substitutes are found; if not forthcoming ,tbe indentures to be temporarily renewed, mine-owners meanwhile to do their utmost to' increase the supply of Kaffirs. The Assembly passed the ordinance cabled yesterday through all stages, the Opposition co-operat-ing, and after the third reading the measure was sent to the Upper House. The Government want it settled forthwith. The Council was about to adjourn when Mr. H. C. Hull declared that unless tho Bill were immediately passed the Assembly should adjourn, and thus wreck the Bill. Mr. Feltham and others declared that the Council declined tc be rushed. Consideration of the measure was adjourned until to-day.

Received 10.4 p.m. March 22. PRETORIA, March 22. •Salient features of the Assembly’s proceedings were the effacement ol General Botha, everything being left to Mr Smuts, and secondly to Schalkburger. Other Boers, interpreting, insisted that the officials of the House should speak Dutch, this after they had .begun in English. WORK AND WACES. Received 1.6 a.m. March 23. SYDNEY, March 22. Recently coaling steamers were hampered owing to members of the Coal Lumpers’ Union declining tc work on Saturday afternoons. The steam collier owners and local stevedores associations-applied to the Arbitration Court to amend the award so as to require lumpers to work whenever required, excepting between midnight on Saturday and midnight on Sunday; also that employers be relieved from tho obligation of employing unionists. The president, in ' granting the withdrawal of preference from the Union, said the men had clearly disregarded the intention of the award, and employers should bo relieved from the hampering provision of preference to unionists, which prevented employers to a great extent' defending themselves Another member of the Court declared that the men had taken’ a very wrong stand in not accepting the offer of the Court to hold a conference with employers. They should make every effort before taking oxticmc steps. He strongly urged them again to consider the question of a conference. The president promised to give attention in regard to other requests of tho owners to-mor-row.

THE SUBMERGED MINER. Received 1 .6 ti.m. Mucoh 23. PERTH, March 22. Divers readied the submerged miner alid supplied him with food. MISCELLANEOUS. Received 11.22 p.m. March 22. LONDON, March 22. About 800 tons of the Suovic’s cargo has been salved, chiefly wool. It is . believed that the meat and rabbits have been spoiled. The butter is at present undamaged. - - - .....A..

CAIRO, March 22. The Egyptian Government adopted the proposal to heighten tho Assouan dam. the work to occupy six years. It is estimated that it will increase tho annual value of tho cotton crop by four millions. NEW YORK, March 22.

The United States gunboat Marietta landed marines at Honduras for the protection of American interests.