NEWS OF THE DAY.

Rodney and Otamatea Times, Waitemata and Kaipara Gazette, Volume 1, Issue 22, 23 August 1901, Page 3

NEWS OF THE DAY.

Exglaxd. lias awakened suddenly And found p,-yi>ung giant in possession '•Pi her premises, Her shipping,, tram-' ways, underground. railroads and .automobiles, hei-fqal/ iron, and steal; industries, her machinery, stock mark- j ets, racecourses, and her theatres,.are j now donmnonared % American control .and may soon be monopolised by Ame: icaus v TJie couive of xunpire is the work of Nature- the son succeed? the father, the daughter takes the mother's' place at the household,—Town Topics, ■New York.. Tub -Catholic communify has. long1 felt the want of a college ii» Auckland where tho higher branches of education would be imparted.. His Lord>hip . Bishop Lenihan recently offered the Marist Order thirteen acres of the church property near Cox's Creek, Ponsonbj, provided the Order ei-.-etcd thereon a suitable.college. . This offer was sent to the head house of the Order, St.. Gonis, Laval (Jlhone), France, •jft-nd the ■C'oimcj]; '..after ', consideration, accepted' tl ie Bishop's proposal,:; and ordered the'erection of q, seminary to cost some, thousands of pounds. ■' The Iplans are now in fho handp of Messr.-.] E. Mahoney rmd Son, and, on pletion, tliey will be forwarded to the : Council in Fro nee. for the latin'cation. < No delay is likely to occur, as the ■authorities arc desirous of having the . building completed as soon as possible.—"Star," ;■■■■' I "Such" says Mr, ,T.. P, O'Connor, "is the popularity ; of the I arl of E,m- i furly in New Zealand after his four i years' Goyernship in that great colony •• that there is talk of & special request i from the colonists for his reappoint-K ment when his present term expires, jl

We learn from the Post'that, thei Premier lias given notice to move, in Committee on the Industrial Conciliation aud Arbitration Ammendment Bill, a series of new clauses which will, if carried, effect very considerable alterations in the present Act. He proposes that any award made prior to the coming into operation of -the principal Act shall continue in force after the date of its expiration until a ne W award has been made, except when a union bound by the award hasceased to exist. Such awards may be extended by the Court to a union or association which was not an original! party to it. He also proposes that the Registrar in any matter concerning the performance of his duties, may state a case for the advice and opinion of the Court. Another clause id design- j ed to amend section SO- of the princip-j al Act by adding the following pro-j visions:—The ■ Court: may limit the operation of an awai-d to any city, town, or district -being -within any! industrial district: in\ sticlr ease* ..i\ie\ Court shall haVe power to ' extend the provisions of the award to any person,'; employer; industrial 'union or associat-1 ion in the district on . being applied 'to for that purpose;-it may also, if it thinks tit, in like mariner limit the operation of an existing award. Another proposed new clause providesl that wl- :e workmen engaged upon different are" employed in one business by an- .employer, the Court may make one' award applicable to such business, and embracing, as it thinks fit, the. whole or part or the Various branches of the business.

Pkivate letters received from the i Hon. A. J. Cadman, the late Min-I •ister for Railways are to the effect' that he and Mr. E. M. Smith, the! member for New Plymouth,' hope to arrive froni England in time to take their seats before the close of the session. It 'may be remembered that M( ssrs Cadman arid Smith proceeded to England some months ago in con-i nection with the iron* and industry, and as soon as their business is satisfactorily completed they intend returning to the colony. '" A most barefaced act of fraud was brought to light at Ballarat on July' 1(>, when a decrepit old man named! C'ieeton, aged 70 was sentenced to two years'' imprisonment for imposition under the Old-Age-Pensions Act It appears that Cleeton who had been an inmate of the' Immigrants'! Home, was granted a pension, of Bs.i par week at Brunswick, and 'subsequently turned up at Ballarat, ■where] lie obtained another pension, of 7s. 6d,j per week. Max O'Rell says if he were asked I to name the spots of earth where. his oyf!s':had had the privilege,of beholding'the'most beautiful'specimens of womanhood, he thinks he would name| the streets of Jkida-Pesth and thej drawing rooms of Ireland. The French1 sag'c is assured that lie might also look in, with advantage to his eyes, at Irish cottage and farmhouse fireside. How many men have lost their liberty, their honor, even their lives, through the wild fabrications of a girl suffering from, neurasthenia, or who are naturally vicious, -and can lie with a greater appearance of honesty tiron Truth herself can Avear? — Melbourne -'Punch" on Jessica Minns. The d».aith of ministers is still a serious problem for the governing bodies of the Presbyterian Churek to face. At the meeting of the Dunedin presbytery on Tuesday the Rev. 1). • ]sorrie announced that there were 1C or 11 vacant charges, and there was not a single probationer to put intc any one of them. The Presbytery, he said, "svas never so hard up for ministers before.

I.x Snowy Eiver district (Grippsland, Vie.) there are now hundreds of Hindus—ploughing, milking, scrubcutting, etc., but mostly maizo-picking. They work iuterminable hours ror the tnoones^ wage, camp in equlid etp-

fyahs, and live on maize' and datmper j till-they're- saved enough to start"6s hawkers., An -instance is giren of a sorub-cutting c-qutract for Avhich the .{lowest- '< white" iendei? was £4,. Eight j^lindxis came along ar f >l cleared the g'roxmd j:o the last leaf for thirty shillings, : ■ ; During the trial at •■Marseilles of a jyoung' French soldier, Colin, for ! insulting and threatening a corporal, the' accused used, abusive-langu-age in the the coxxrt and threw his cap at the presiding Goion-el's head He was forthwith sentenced- to death. A Massachusetts .showman offered the. IT. S. Government £-10,000. for permission to exhibit Aguinaldo, the oaptxxrod Filipino leader, ■; for 100 nights, and offered to give- bonds for his safe return, while another offered £50,000 for the lease of the prisoner for a 3 rear for a similarpxxrpos^. The St. Petersburg correspondent of the Daily Mai saysI—The1—The -Eussian submarine boat designed by the engineer Sakovenko ? -which will be able fp; cross the1 Atlantic from . England to ■America'in two and a half days, -is being built with the utmost secrecy in a French Port, secret of the- extv.aoi! *lm:uy speed of this boat lies in it's peculiarly constructed screw.. The boat "itself is in the shape ■of a double-pointed cigar. .. Tins Orepuki (Otago) Shale Com-! pany encouraged by the boims oi:. #5,j 000 offered by the Grovernme-nt for. the] production of ishale oil, as well, as by I the inexhaustible RX}.pplyof good s,halei at Orepuki, and the demand oils' Ayax,; axiimokiia.. 'and otlioi1 products, of< •sliale, has expended £i)6«0Q0 m= eatq-bl-! isln'ng a large arid, valuable jaisjustry, I In-wages alone £20,000 has been dis-j burse'd,. a fax-go niimper Qi people -.iaj employedj and a' valiiable pationfil! rosoUree is being derelppfld,. • ! A point of g-reftt imjioi't^ince to em-1 ployers of l^boxxr }\pa-h&pn decidpd by; the Stipendiary Magistrate at Danne- ; virke (sajs the Wellington Poet), A sawmill hand, Trho'jnet'witji & severe accident while plying his vocation, exited his employe? for injuries rec^ved. After -."jnaldng- p.Ji ijispeetiop. q£ the scene, of the acide'nt and heariagl -.the evidence, the Magistrate nonsuited I the plaintiff with costs on the ground; that the mishap had ofijjurred when plaintiff had a free hand as to how the work should be done and-as to how i the appliances shoxxld be worked. .. i Sir George O'Brien has retired from Fiji, bxxt before he left he made an inflamixiatory''speech; to the native chiefs. The "Fiji Times" reiii^rked,' in, lan-

gunge mose resirained than SirGreorge O'Brien's,. that ""there could be no honest desire on the part of any person in Fiji, to look .upon his. Excellency's face iagain.." .;.,, U. •.. ;'. =•' .• .. .

The Australian Federal Senate has adopted a. resolution that it is expedient that the Commonwealth Parliament accept" powers to' make, laws forj Australia" as to wages, hours, and; condition of labour. The Daily Telegraph's New York correspondent says a-sensational iiscovery has been made that the Customs revenue has been defrauded of millions of dollars for years by large silk [importers who bribe the Customs examiners to overlook consignments, especially Japanese silk; We are not surprised to learn that | the Premier purposes to refer his State [fire insurance scheme to experts to disjcuss its suitability foi the colony's requirements ; but we are surprised that the Premier should bring forward such a Bill without first having obtained the opinion of an expert on it. It is not usual for the Premier to introduce |measures in such: an incomplete. state,; but he lias in a week moment, we are afraid, yielded to the importunity of those who" suffer under the present system of fire insurance.-I—Southern

Standard,

! By all the rules of the game the' [war in South Africa ought to have' ended months ago, and yet it still] keer>s going with little abatement in persistency. The intrepid Cape rjiider, Kruitzinger, gives a clue toj I the problem when he says he hopes to! ! tire out the British nation, ■" and thej |pity of it is that he und his fallows do jnot realise as the rest of the 'world! jdoes, that the British nation-is not t I be turned aside from its: purpose in South Africa. "Whatever happens arid lat whatever cost, there is to be no [•looking back. The nation' is firmly j united on this question as it never was j before: How, then, are such men as! Kruitzinger to be reached and convinc- j ed? The people of the Capo Colony, who havM' suffered most and are most neariy concerned in the business, are rea-iy with an answer. They avouM outlaw the members of the marauding hauls -who are kt-eping the wholei South African territory in a stats of j unrest, ■ and bringing' untold misery lupon the people of bcth racss, It 'jseems to us that this suggestion will ■ have to be adopted in the interests "of ' humanity. . | Ix two years the deposits in the |Post Ofliee Savimgs Bank hare increased by £851,781, or more than a 'Ipound per head for eveiy man, | woman and child in the Colony, so Sthat. the old-age pension notwithstanding, the the indications are that thrift is increasing.—"Wairarapa I Standard." b Evex a young, sturdy, prosperous s colony can bo made to stagger undei the weight of he&Yy and ever iucreas--7 ing burden of labour legislation, and .fias sure a^ day follows dawn it will . not be loug before New Zealand will .. have the c'ft'ects brought home to hei em the irso.-l forcible manner.— . "Thames Su?.!;

v ' TifREE attempts have l)oen made s during' the" past two months to exP plode powder magqzijie in Vienna. i On the • occasion of the most recent v. attempt the. sea try ahot *nd killed, a s man who was within .ten y»rds oi the' ■ magazine, v Loki) KixciißXEit lms. been ,'fn-: .. sLructed to order tho execution','Of • Jjpers committing murder contrary to the recognised usages of warfare. , The steady execution of rebels which »is noAv proceeding is impressing the disloyalists in South Africa, Destroy one class of. rogues hy i making their methods of o})eration ' difficult or dangerous, and in time ■ entirely new methods are devised to 1 meet the special exigencies created Iby the. law and the gijtuie goes merrily on a.s -before.—"Taupeka Times." • Mk, Yernon Eeed, in 00. sealing o go to Yvellingtoti, said <'He felt sure the North Auckland extension would eventually go to Whangarei, and, in that case, wjjeu the through Kawa; kawa-Wha-ngar.ei line was "made, tht Bay uf >Islands : would have ■ railway communication wijbh Auckland." Tho settlers of tljefie .western-'distriGts must ja\vt?ike from theijvindiiference and show j Mr. llood, and those • wlio think with him, that, the route oi. the North Auckland-main-line-of railway shall j not be through Whangarei and tht. [poor lands which lie be we«nthattown; It-hip and liawakawa', bu]t niiiit--.be .as. |laidoufiii tlje n>ap jjj?epared:-by the; ;North Auckland Railway' Iteagaie.-: ju^iiiely, through the centre : of the !peninsula., opening- lip" the, rich landf iVilichlfe tJirere.^^.airoa. Bejl. ' :