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Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXI, Issue 8786, 13 April 1907, Page 2

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Press Association— Copyright; LONDON, April 12. King Edward and Queen Alexandra visit Minorca. , - A hundred - thousand additional cartridges have been seized at Newcastle. Brussels, April 12. Owing to a fresh defeat in the Chamber on the hours in mines question the Belgian Government has resigned. Sydney, April 12. Arrived : Torganten and Whangape. Sailed at 3: Sonoma and Tomoana for Auckland. London, April 12. Mr Reeves, iu a letter to the Times, explains the recent strikes iu New Zealand and ridicules the suggestion that the Arbitration Act has broken down and that the Arbitration Court Is powerless.

Newspapers criticise Lord Elgin’s refusal to interfere with the sentence iu the Grogan case, in which members of the Nairobi Colonists Association took the law into their own hands aud punished natives for insulting white women. Lord Elgin announced that the officer administering at Nairobi reported that their insult to white women was not serious and only amounted to rudeness and disobedience aud that Grogan aud four Britishers flogged natives despite the intervention of police officers Berlin, April 12. Mrs George Speyer, of Frankfort, a near relative of Sir Edgar Speyer, of Speyer ■ Brothers, has given £150,000 for the promotion of science. Melbourne, April 13.

After bearing explanations the Jockey Club exonerated all parties from any suspicion of malpractice iu connection with Porus’s running. ' Sir John Forrest, who has returned from a visit to Sydney states that Federation was not intensely popular among the people he mixed with but there was not any desire to break away. He thought that if they got rid of the question of the site of the capital aud as federation grow older everything should go along right. Sydney, April 13. Coaling of the Orient Line steamer is proceeding with free labour. The City Clerk has taken the plague.