PERSIA.

Otago Witness, Issue 2810, 22 January 1908, Page 28

PERSIA.

! I SUPPRESSION OF NEWSPAPERS, TEHERAN, January 16. The Persian Parliament, in return for certain concessions, has agreed to suppress several newspapers and. % to_ • in^reaefe the ■Shah's civil list by £30jdO£J r,>n -'-' .'/ ■. The Persian Parliament was opened in, last, under' the new- constitution, , and the ' Times correspondent at Teheran telegraphing on December 4 said: — Stmday.'s ibsue of the newspaper Majliss publishes the text of the Shah's rescript Jo Parliament, in which his Majesty complains of the various anjumans (assemblies) interfering with the executive, thereby causing ' confusion and disorders in the capital and.^ throughout the country. .The Shah -asks ' Parliament to .' legislate' for the -punishment of offenders and henceforth to distinguish , well between executive and legislative ' powers, adding. "Parliament possesses the latter, but must -leave the former alone." An animated discussion, says the journal, followed the reading' of 4he rescript. The House denied having interfered, but admitted that the anjumans had .been guilty of interference, and recommended the dissolution of all the anjumans which had acted against or interfered with the Executive. The members blamed the Shah for being too lax "as head of the Executive. The answer to the rescript is being drafted.

MINISTERS* MOTEHESTB.

I The Right Hon. Sir J. G. Werd, Prime Minister, left Dunedin for Invercargill on Saturday. The honourable gentleman is expected^to return, to Dunedin by the finrt express to-day. It is probable that he will leave Dunedin to-morrow 'morning for Wei- j lington, where Cabinet meetings are to be held on Thursday and Friday. . The Hon. J. A. Millar, Minister of .L&bour and Marine, arrived in Dunedin 'by the first express from. Chrietohurch on Siaturday. Business of an official nature ia ; the principal reason for Mr Millar's visit | to the couth, and it is probable that he will remain in town for some 10 days before going further couth. Mr Millar will I take part in the New Zealand Bowling I Association's tournament in Dunedin. this 1 week. The Hon. Dr Findlay, Attorney-general, reached Dunedin by the first express on. Saturday. He went north again on Tuesday. GISBORNE, January 18. The Hon. Mr M'Nab and th© Hon. Mr Carroll on Saturday visited the Mangapapa School, where 99 children are taught daily in a room" 23ft by 20ft. Mr M'Nab said that the Hon. Mr Fowlde would inspect the 1 school early next month. i