British and Foreign.

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 43115, 9 July 1907, Page 3

British and Foreign.

(By Telegraph—Press Association.) NEW! YORK, Yesterday. Mr Rockfeller answered his subpoena at Chicago and stated that the presidency of the Standard Oil Company, New Jersey, was purely an honorary one, he had not taken part in its affairs for the last eight or ten years, and was without knowledge of its connection in the Indiano Company. The examination, which has concluded, 1 was resultless.

ST. Yesterday. Capt. Pyshkin, organiser of several pogroms, including the Vologda of October, 1905, was assassinated in the streets of Skaterenburg. The assassins escaped after wounding several policemen during the fight. SYDNEY, YesterdayObituary : Colonel Bell, formerly American Consul. The secretary of the Tailoress’ Union states that 2,000 tailoresses will strike at the end of the week unless the coal lumpers demands are conceded. The Conference of Steam Collier owners and Stevedores Association and Coal Lumpers Union proved abortive, and when resumed to-day the secretary of the Lumpers Union announced that the proposal had been submitted to a meeting of the Union, which unanimously decided not to work with free labourers; also not to accept wages and conditions for night work. Mr Byrnes, president of the Conference, on behalf of the employers, expressed regret at the men’s decision. Under the circumstances the employers had no alternative but to decline to proceed with the conference and thereupon withdrew the offers previously made by employers, and the conference ended. MELBOURNE, Yesterday. Mr Deakin is unwell, and rather disquieting symptoms were manifested on Friday.