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Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXII, Issue 9021, 7 December 1907, Page 2

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Per Press Association—Copyright. Received December., 10.:";) p.m. Vienna, Dec. <i. After two Austrian monitors iiad been scut to Duleigno and Autivai, Montenegro's apology for violating the Dalmatian Treaty by sending iufantry to effect an arrest in connection 'with the recent plot was accepted. Lisbon, Dec. 0. Owing to the crisis in the Portuguese wine fade, vine planting has been prohibited for three years. New York, Dec. (i. The Supreme Court of New York State has decided that Sunday amusements, theatres, and concerts, are illegal. The National Bank of O .mmorcc, Kansas City, Miss., has failed, liabilities are £4,800,000. Government officials hope that the bank will be able to meet all obligations. It hold £200,000, of Clearing House certificates, and its deposits in a month decreased from million sterling to 1% million. Stockholm, Dec. (!. King Oscar is ill aud the Crown Prince is acting as regent. (King Oscar is 78 years old. having been born in 18.2-01. London, Dec. <i. Germany's request for arbitration on her Boer war claims relates to the claim for damages which was brought beforo tlio Central Claims Board of South Africa iu 1002 aud disallowed. It is understood that tho British Government will not re-open the subject. This creates a deadlock in respect of the claim of Burns, Philp and Co., of Australia, iu connection with the interference iu their steamer trade with the Gorman Pacific Islands. The jury disagreed in the ease against' Farrell, M.P., who was charged along with others with taking part' in an unlawful assembly. Mr Lloyd George, President of the Board of Trade, was thanked for his intervention, leading to a mutually satisfactory settlement of the cotton operatives' wages at Oldham. Newcastle, "December 7. Sailed : Wairtuia for Lytteltou. j Berlin, December 0. j

The Committee of the Diet, by J!) ' to J), rejected tho Polish L'xpropria- [ tion Bill. Melbourne, December 7. Lily Koa.n, when suffering from niclaucholia, rushed into the sea. A. sister went to her rescue and both were drowned. Received Dec. 7, S.-!'.i a.m. London, December (i. D. S. Adams, of Groenoeh, lias been appointed Professor of Church History and Systematic Theology at Orin.oi.id College, Melbourne. At tho wool sales there was spirited competition for merinos, which formed the bulk of tiV offering. New York, December (i. A man, apparently insane, shot threo labour leaders who were conferring with Governor Guild of Massachusetts, at tho hitter's residence in Boston. It is expected that two will die. The man says he meant to shoot, tho Governor. The convention of Californiau fruit growers at Maysville nnaui. mously recommenced tho repeal of the Chinese Exclusion Act, urging Congress to admit a fixed liberal number of Ohuisee and Japanese on the same conditions applying to European immigrants. The memorali declares that the industries are threatened with extension. There was no evidence that the States in the. West suffered from the presence of Chinese prior to their exclusion. John O'Brien, an Irish journalist, declared that the real peril of tho country was immigration from | Southern and South-eastern Europe, j The present conditions in the fruit regions were due to labour agitators and mostly aliens/ Mr Cortclyou's annual report recommends legisltaion in the direction of greater elasticity of the currency, and suggests the division of the country and the retention in each section of a large proportion of bank reserves, also the law limiting the retirement of circulation should be so amended as to leave the amount to the discretion of the Treasury. _ _ '

Adelaide, December 7. The Council ratified tho agreement to transfer the northern territory to the Federal Government. New York, December fi. Ten thousand Nevada miners have struck; demanding recognition of their union. Troops have been sent to preserve order. The estate of Haveineyer, tho American sugar king, has been valued at £15,000,000. He bequeaths £750,000 to charities.' * Fourteen persons were suffocated in a fire in the tnnuel in course of construction between New York and New Jersey. The Mauritania beat the Lusi? tauia's eastward record by 20 minutes.