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Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2049, 9 April 1907, Page 2

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PRESS ASSOCIATION COPYRIGHT. LONDON, April 7. Mr. Deakin broke liis journey at Paris. Ho arrives in London tomorrow. T , The Standard states tliat -j; Lord Elgin has decided not to publish the Swettenham documents, despite Mr Churchill’s promise to do so. , Japan is ordering in England a 21,000-ton battleship, to cost 2i millions. Tlio experiments with the s.s. Orari’s New Zealand wool were of a negative character, and gave no proof that dampness caused the fires on wool ships in 1906. The temperature of the bales on the voyage corresponded with that of the hold. Several congratulatory addresses and many telegrams have been handed to Lord Lister and Sir Algernon Swinburne on the occasion of their birthdays. The former included messages from 1000 Danish doctors. The s.s. Suevic has been drydocked. Large crowds continue to visit the vessel. ROME, April 7. The Turin police discovered a railwaymen’s organisation to rob luggage. Many arrests have taken place. NEW YORK, April 7. Hoping to defeat her relatives, Mrs Eddy announces that she has appointed as trustees of her hard earnings H. G. Pen, Henry Baker, a , lawyer, McLelland, Christian Science editor, and Forgald, a magistrate. BERLIN, April 7. The Hamburg strikers threaten to blow up the vessels whereon English non-unionists are quartered. SYDNEY, April 8. Realm has ben purcehased by an Indian buyer for 1500 guineas, ltongoa, Karamba, and Auriculum, which fell in the Steeplechase, have been destroyed. • The Jockey Club held an investigation as to the inconsistent running of Peru at the recent meeting. The committee disqualified Maximize, her owner, and the jockey for two years for suspicious practices in the Final Handicap.

MELBOURNE, April 8. Colonel Robin strongly advocates an interchange of officers between Australia and New Zealand. He thinks it is of strategical importance that Australia and New Zealand in view of developments in the Pacific, should make their interests in defence matters mutual. HOBART, April 8. The Premier has received a despatch from Lord Elgin, dealing with representation of the States at the Imperial Conference. It is laid down that the States surrendered to the Commonwealth some of the most distinctive attributes of selfgovernment in the fullest sense of the word, that a great majority of subjects, and the most important ones to be discussed at the Conference are now the business of the Commonwealth alone, and for this reason the Imperial Government is not able to arrange for separate representation for the States. PERTH, April 8. In June last the steamer Norfolk lost her propeller 900 miles off Cape Leeuwin. Captain Corner, by fine seamanship, navigated liis vessel to port. Word has been received that the owners presented Captain Corner with £3OO, and divided £2OO among the crew. Received 11.50 p.m., April 8. NEW YORK, April 8. The steamer, City of Troy, carrying 60 passengers became ablaze on Hudson River. She steamed ahead and was rushed into Edwin Rould’s private dock at Dibb’s Ferry, where all the passengers were landed safely. Peter Widener, tramway magnate, offers two million sterling to found an art museum in Philadelphia, provided the city provides and furnishes a site at Fairmount. LONDON, April 8. A party of 19 women have been elected to the Finnish Parliament. Nine are Social Democrats. The latter is the largest party in the House. Received 11.57 p.m., April 8. SYDNEY, April 8. Johnson, a municipal employee, was electrocuted at the lighting station through falling across a live wire. Mr. Carruthers, commenting on Lord Elgin’s despatch, contends that several important matters before the Conference are more of State inetrest than Federal, notably emigration and the reservation of bills for Royal assent, but in regard to which the Imperial Government was about to legislate. The States also had enormous financial dealings with the centre of the Empire, and tlieir finances would for a very long time be more of an Imperial question than that of the Commonwealth, 'ct the States had not been invited i 0 participate in the Conference. Received 1.5 a.m., April 9. ST. PETERSBURG, April 8. The Union of Russian People at Odessa secured 67 out of 72 seats in the municipality. The Jews are gieatly alarmed, fearing a massacre under the Black Hundred.BUCHAREST, April 8. Seventy-nine of the Potemkin’s crew in Roumania have been arrested for declaring publicly that the Roumanian army officers were responsible for the peasants’ revolt. PRETORIA, April S. The authorities in the Transvaal discovered 876 unauthorised arrivals of Asiatics last year. A CYCLONE. MELBOURNE, April S. A cyclone struck the east end of Bairnsdale, unroofed several buildings, and damaged many. The cyclone crossed and re-crossed the river, scooping up immense quantities of water and discharging it over the town. ’ A man was lifted in the air and blown 50 feet.

THE ROYAL TOUR. PARI, April 7. King Edward and Queen Alexandra, visiting Toulon, received the Admirals of the French Mediterranean squadron. Afterwards King Edward expressed a wish to visit the warship Jena, not in a spirit of curiosity, but out of a sentiment of respect, and as a tribute to the memory , of the victims of the recent explosion. King Edward and hi* suite thoroughly examined the Jena. Ihe Victoria and Albert sailed for Cartagena to meet King Alfonso.

PUBLIC SERVICE IN FRANCE. RIGHT TO STRIKE. Received 1.5 a.m., April 9. PARIS, April S. A small minority of civil servants claiming the right to form trade unions and strike, M. Clemenceau in a letter to the teachers’ union, stating that his Bill permitting civil servants to form associations entitles them in a. corporated capacity to take legal action against arbitrary administrative proceedings. Beyond this it was impossible for any Government to go, because a civil servant was a momber of the hierarchy wherein he possesses privileges not possessed by ordinary workers. The salary was fixed by law, the employ was steady, and promotion not af- • eeted by an economic crisis. He vas not entitled to take concerted lion to break the contract with •he nation. This was a positive legal . lienee, inasmuch as it thwarts the normal, active national sovereignty. MUicial associations cannot bo adorn led to the Labor Exchange, since i boy do not fall li'ke ordiiary workmen under tho law of supply and demand.