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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 36, 12 May 1906, Page 3

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General Items

London, May 9

The Times states that the United States is likely to require a further from Europe. In the House of Commons Mr Churchill, answering a question, said the Government did not see any reason to disallow the New Zealand Maori Land Settlement Act of 1905, It did not infringe the Treaty of Waitangi and gave no dissatisfaction whatever to the Maoris.

The. Moroccan pretender repelled an attempt to force _ the passage of the Mulwya river, killing thirty and wounding many of the Sheerifian army.

The Prince and Princess of Wales had an ovation at Portsmouth and London on thejr return from India.

Two sharp shocks of earthquake are reported from Invernesshire and Connecticut.

Mr Chamberlain, speaking at the Australian l3ail , quet, said: “ / n£ colonies are our ec ( l luis in a lesser degree, not in quality or authority. Only by voluntary mutual agreement and goodwill can we hope to weld closer the union and make it into an instrument for our common welfare and common defence. The first step must be a closer commercial union and the other steps will follow. Not unnaturally we must almost necessarily create some Council of the Empire for the care of commercial interests.” He quoted statistics to prove that the trade of the Empire’s rivals had increased proportionately more than Great Britain’s with Australasia. They must consider the desirability of a change of policy and meet new conditions. Colonial statesmen had shown the way towards a self-sustaining empire as regards emigration and trade.

Berlin, May 9.

The Kaiser has expressed a, wish to visit Emperor Francis Joseph at Schoenbrunn on the 6th June. This is attributed to Italy’s leanings to the Western Powers and to the prospect of an AngloRussian entente.

St. Petersburg, May 9. Count Ignatieff has been assassinatep at Kief.