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NEWS IN BRIEF.

Mustapha Kami I Pasha, leader of the Egyptian Nationalists, is dead. He is succeeded by Fur id Bey, a fierce opponent of British occupation. Socialists, at a meeting in Sydney, reeolved upon assisting the Bulgarians stranded theie on their wav to New Zealand in getting- a s(nrt in Australia. The Ameiican warships under Admiral Evans, on theii way to California, have arrived at Valparaiso, where the Admiral was warmly welcomed.^ The purchase money* for various tramway lines purchased by the South Australian Government on behalf of the Municipal Trust amounts to £237,000. Cardinal Moran arrived at Auckland from Sydney by the Manuka. There was a slight earthquake shock at Gimdagai, New South Wales, on Saturday. The crockery rattled, but there was no damage. The Sugar Growers' Conference at Brisbane resolved that it is imperative that an immediate and vigorous pohoy of immigration be carried out. The Federal Senate requests the House of Representatives to restore the duty of Is per cwt on hay and chaff coming into the Commonwealth. The total value of the imports into Victoria last year was £25,197,000, an increabe on the previous year of £2,963,000. The exports amounted to £28,735,000, a decrease of £182,000. A meeting in London ot W. ajid A. Macarthur's first mortgage debenture-holdeis unanimously agreed to accept an equal amount of first debentures in the new company. with 5 per cent, bonus. Mir Coghlan (Agent-general for New South Wales) and Sir Charles Dilke, who are members of the committee appointed to prepare proposals for a uniform census throughout the Empire, suggest the better presentation of the results of the British census. Before Mi Widdowson, S.M., at Dunedin, on tho 14th, Frank Anderson, who was convicted of stealing g coat and razor, of the value of £2 ss. from a boarder at the Ship Restaurant, and obtaining £1 from F. R. Hobbs by means of a valuless cheque for £4, was fined £5 and ordered to return the 4s 6d paid by the dealter for the purchase of tlie property, £1 to be paid to Hobbs on the cheque, and £2 4s and cost of witnesses brought from Cathns, total £8 8s 6d, in default one month's imprisonment O,n each charge. Anderson had worked as a farm hand and occasionally gave way to drink, but otherwise bore a gcod character. Mr H. W. Bishop, of Chxistchurch, has been appointed a commissioner to inquire into the management of Te Oranga Home for Girls, and the general treatment of the inmates. Mr Wm Barclay was elected chairman of the Otago Harbour Board for the ensuing 12 months, on the motion of Mr J. T. Mackerras. the retiring chairman. The Wellington City Council, by 12 to 9, decided to ask the Governor to declare that Wellington shall be no longer a fire district. The City Council thinks it can manage affairs as well as a Fire Board. The Kaiapoi "Woollen Company, Christchurch, at a special meeting, confirmed the resolutions passed last month giving power to increase the share capital of the company. Paul Henry Sleinker, a stranger in Dunedin, pleaded guilty at the Police Court to forging- a cheque on the Bank of New Zealand for £15 0s 6d, and was committed to the Supreme Court for sentence. Accused had obtained a blank cheque form, and having filled it up, signed it Freeman Giblin. He then went to the fancy goods shop of Abraham Israel and, representing the cheque was signed by his partner, proffered it in payment for goods of the value of £3. He was told to come back for hie change. In the meantime the cheque was presented at the bank and marked "No good." Sleinker was arrested when he returned tor his change. In the Supreme Court Sleinker was admitted to probation by Mr Justice Williams, on the condition that he abstained from drink, toon, out a prohibition order against himself, and paid in instalments of 5s per week the £3 which his prosecution had cost. The shipbuilding firm of Sir James Laing and Son, of Sunderland. suspended payment, but is likely to be rcsonctructed ajid eveiyone paid in full. As a protest at not having its c'aim for £2300 in the list of preferentiaJ creditors, the Electrkity Committee of the Sunderland Corporation cut off its supply of current. The Waler Company also stopped its supply, causing a temporary suspension of work. The firm then arranged for their own supply of electricity and water and resumed operations at their yards. The timber yard strike m Sy dney has ended, and the men have resumed work. j Charles W. Morse, a well-known banker, was arrested on returning to New York on a. charg-o of larceny. A cyclone at Barcaldine (Queensland) dej molished' four premises and damaged a I number of others. A similar occurrence at Chillag-oe did £1000 worth of damage. Owing to the mo\ements of Turki-h troops Russia is said to be concentrating I her forces near the frontier. I Two shocks of earthquake arc reported | to have occurred at Johannesburg. The Countess of Wartensleben, on returning home in Berlin from the opera, left in her bedroom jewels worth £13.500. Half an hour later the jewels were missing. The maid has been arrested. A business man of Lisbon has given a sum of £200 and the U6e of a house for her life to the mother and the children of Buica, who was lulled as a regicide. Buica was a widower. A man named Kirk, at Broken Hill, shot his wife dead with a revolver, and afterwards wounded a man named Locking, it is thought fatally. Kirk v»as arrested. The cause is said' to be jealousy. Goelong advices state that throutrh the burning of a small cottage at Winvip three children, named "Wilson, whose ages ranged from 15 months to six years, were burned to death. A man named Jennings made a. gallant attempt to re=cue the family, and saved one child. The crowd mobbed Mr Keir Hardie on his arrival at tlie Johannesburg Railway Station, pelting him with eg-gs, tomatoes, and stones. The police protected him, and enabled him to escape without being hit A Berlin professor named Sultan contributes an artiole to a medical journal published there, in which he gives a description of an operation on the heart, which had been pierced with a bullet. The wound was sewn up, and the patient was cured in six weeks. The English suffragettes intend to ohserve a week of self-denial, in order to

raise funds for their campaign Thnir programme copsistt of making collections at the railway siatio 1 -.- and m tho si' pets, of outdoor singing. oi_rar. ynnding. and diawing bketches on .ho pavements. The Comas'? Committee of the Untied States Hou=e of Representatives has unanimously *otod for tbe restoration of the motto "In God v\ o trust" on all money, coined at ihe United States mints. The words had be«'n omitted from recent mintin gs on President Roosevelt's msliuction-,. ' he cotitend-ng thai they were made +Ivp «ub- ; ject of mockery and ridicule by numbers of Americans. ,

It is understood that onoh playing- member of the New Zealand toam of professional footballers will receive £150 for the rour, in addition to hotel expenses and an allowance of £1 a week. George Smith (Auckland) has joined the Oldham Club, and Todd (Auckland) has joined the Wigan Club The newspapers comment on the rousrhness of hoth side,' durinp the match at Cheltenham. The Daily Express says that for brutal tprtics tho game uas a disgrace to professional football. The referee ordered one Xew Zealander off the fiold for fighting, and separated another New Zealander from an opponent whom he was fighting. At the Supreme Court, Auckland. Florence Farndale, a young married woman, was acquitted of the charge of murdering her newly-born infant. At Invercargill the Arbitration Court fined Thomson and Beattie (tailor*) £5 for employing an excessive number of apprentices; and A. M'Konzie (carpenter at the Bluff) a similar amount for employing an r.nindentured apprentice. Mr Harkness. president of the Vyellinarton Chamber of Commerce, is inclined to bplieve the Dominion will have to faoe a decided slumr in the value of its products this year. , Albert Brown, the 13-year-old son ot William Brown, labourer, of Waikcmaiti. was acidontallv drowned in the Wnikouaih River on Sunday at 2.30 p.m. The boy met his death while endeavouring to save his vounsrer brother from drowning. When the Supreme Court resumed on Tuesday it was found that one of the jurymen in the case in which John Mowat was charged with injuring '.he dwell-ng m Castle street was too ill to attend. A fresh jury was empanelled, and the trial recommenced. The jury . brought in a verdict of not frnilty. and the accused was discharged. William Booth, convicted on the previous day of assault and robber? from the por«on. was sentenced to three years' hard labour. Factory butter is being retailed in Wellington at Is 4d per lb.

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Ngā taipitopito pukapuka

Otago Witness, Issue 2814, 19 February 1908, Page 52

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Tapeke kupu
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NEWS IN BRIEF. Otago Witness, Issue 2814, 19 February 1908, Page 52

NEWS IN BRIEF. Otago Witness, Issue 2814, 19 February 1908, Page 52

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