Various Items.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 3625, 17 March 1906, Page 3

Various Items.

London, March 14. i k Jury awarded a girl injured ui lodpiug-tbe-loop at Sunderland damages. Justice Darling held that ail agreement relieving the proprietress of a theatre of responsibility in the event of injury was worthless, because it was against public policy. He commented of the inconsistency of the country forbidding bull fights and tolerating feats that were likely to involve mutilation or death. Honolulu advices states that a great volcanic eruption at Savaii destroyed three villages. A lava stream, a mile wide, ran over the country. Ottawa, March 15.

The Canadian Government officials are highly pleased with General Booth’s Kensington immigrants. They consider them first-doss.

Paris, March 14,

%'he,Socialists refuse to support M, iSarrien, the, new Pr r mier, if the Government opposes unions of State employees,. Nbw York, March 14.

. Twenty thousand tenantless fprrps are' for sale in New York State owing to* the expansion of business towns denuding the rural districts of .population. London, March 14.

Mr H. H. Asquith, Chancellor of the Exchequer, refuses to grant a year for a National Repertory Theatre. The Nonconformist Commoners while avoiding the creation of a separate group in Parliament, have defcided to form a Parliamentary Coimittee which will deil with subjects of special and distinctive interests to Nonconformists.

Sir ..John Forrest, Federal treasurer, speaking at a private function, quoted trade statistics to show that Australia had made sustained progress over a period of years. He ..was cheered for declaring that he had never heard a speaker in Australia say a disloyal word about the Motherland without being hooted and howled down.