Epitome of Minor Events.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVII, Issue 3523, 18 May 1905, Page 2

Epitome of Minor Events.

A midshipman waa “ ragging ” a comrade on the cruiser Kent, when the victim fired a revolver, wounding two men. The Admiralty, acting promptly, punished the offenders. Recent orders prohibited private punishment in the Vavy. Edwards (the man arrested for the Tatura murder in Victoria') said he never tried to hide, but just went about carrying his swag looking for work, the same as he had done for years. He attributed his position to drink. The police, failing to disperse a mid-night street demonstration of Russian Jewish Socialists at Warsaw, summoned an infantry patrol, which fired a volley, wounding 1 several people. Cardinal Kopn has handed the Kaiser the Order of the Holy Sepulchre from the Patriarch of Jerusalem In recognition of his recent visit to Palestine. Important conferences are being held between the Kaiser and the ecclesiastical dignitaries It is believed to be Hie outcome of France’s defection from Pome. \ prosecution has been ordered of several German newspapers on a charge of le.se majeste for publishing rhe Kaiser's recent soeech wherein he is reported to have referred to rhs Japanese as “ the s -ourge of God.” The Western Australian Government has issued new regn'ations for the treatment of aborigines based on Dr Roth’s ren irt.