Various Items.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 3629, 27 March 1906, Page 3

Various Items.

Perth, March 24. At the Northern sports, A. Pestle covered 75 yards in 7 i-ssec, n, world's record. The Athletic Association certify that it is Correct. Constantinople, March 24. It is reported at Constantinople that the Porte refuses to withdraw firomTabah, affirming that it is the territory of the British Government.

The Porte bases its claim to Tabah on the contents of the Grand Vizier’s telegram on the occasion of the Khedive’s accession in 1892.

The diplomatists expect the British fleet will make a demonstration probably at Smyrna. New York, March 24. The Judge in the Beef Trust case at Chicago directed the jury to return a verdict favourable to defendants as individuals, hut not in their capacity as u corporation. Replying to a deputation from the American Federation of Labour, which insisted on more stringent regulations as to Chinese immigration, President Roosevelt defended the admission of merchants, travellers, students and professional persons. Berlin, March 24. A strike is threatened at Ruka, on the Westphalian coal fields, the men objecting to increase the export of coal lest they injure the French miners on strike.

Rome, March 24. Signor Tittoni, ex-Minister for Foreign Affairs, has been appointed Italian Ambassador to Britain.

London, March 24. Sir Richard Solomon has been appointed Lieutenant-Governor of the Transvaal. Mr H. F. Blaine succeeds him as AttorneyGeneral. The Master of Rolls reversed Mr Justice Joyce’s decision in the case in which Mrs Kenneth Grahame and Miss Winifred Thompson proceeded against J. F. Moulton, one of the Lord Justices of Appeal, their step-farther, on the ground that they clearly regarded themselves as standing towards defendant in the relation of children, and did not expect to have to pay maintenance out of their mother’s estate.