Various Items.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 3632, 3 April 1906, Page 2

Various Items.

London, March 30.

Mr B.’ R. Wise, in a letter to the press, declares th|it the status of trades unions in New South Wales is so different to those in Great Britain that colonial legis* Jation would be little guide until public opinion is ripe for the determination of all industrial disputes bv a specially organised tribunal. The Paris correspondent of The Times declares that it will take a generation to efface French resentment at Germany’s action regarding Morocco. A by-election took place at Leicester yesterday. The polling was- —Mr Tbomasseu (Liberal) 10,766, Sir J. F. L. Rolleston (Conservative) 7,206. Mr Henniker Heaton, M.P., in a letter to the Times, strongly urges Mr Sydney Buxton to instruct the British delegates to the Postal Conference at Rome to support the Australian proposal in favour of universal penny postage. Lord Linlithgow (better known as Lord Hopetoun, first GovernorGeneral of Australia), while hunting in Cheshire, met with an accident. His horse, in taking a fence, somersaulted, threw his Lordship into a ditch, and rolled on him. Lord Linlithgow is progressing favourably. Though he is suffering greatly, his condition is not dangerous. Sir John Forrest, the Federal Treasurer, in a speech at the United Empire Club, said the time was arriving when the people of the United Kingdom would be unable to bear the whole of the burden of defence. The Empire’s only hope was that all Briton* would stand shoulder to shoulder. He was convinced that the sons of the Empire would not allow it to be broken up without a struggle. - The Brazilian Government ha* let a contract at the Elswick work* for the construction of three ironclads at a cost of /i,800,000, St. Petersburg, March 30.

In order to prevent a pilgrimage to their graves, Admiral Chukh® nin, Commander of the Black. Sea fleet, exhumed the bodies of lieutenant Schmidt and three sailors, who were concerned in the mutiny at Sebastopol, and buried them at sea.

New York, March 30. The American Mine Workers* Association has ordered all anthra* cite colliers to strike. One hundred and fifty thousand -men are affected. Suez, March 30. The German East African liner Prinz Regent, with the Duke and Duchess of Connaught on board, narrowly escaped colliding with the cruiser Renown, which has th® Prince and Princess of Wales on board. The steamer dragged her anchors during a gale in the Sue* Canal, and drifted within a few feet of the Renown. Sydney, March 31. A meeting of the Newcastle colliery owners, it is understood, decided to increase the selling price of coal. Five plague-infected rats have been caught in the city area previously infected. Hobart, March 31. Six of the seats formerly held by members of the Ministry were lost. Three were won by Labour reprseentatives, and the others by candidates who did not declare themselves.