Miscellaneous.
SYDNEY, YesterdayThe Court found Capt. Legge, master, _ and Richard Finch, mate, responsible for the wreck of the island steamer Ysabel, and ordered them to show cause why their certificates should not be dealt with. The High Court refused Bardon’s application for a writ of madamus for compelling the Governor of South Australia to show cause why he issued a writ for a fresh election of Senator by the people. The Court held that the Governor was of the same note as an officer of the Commonwealth and refrained from expressing an opinion on a j point, raised whether or not a vacancy now wasted in the senatorily-repres-entation of South Australia, leaving I the Senate to settle the position itself. MOROCCA, Yesterday. Kaid Mac Lean was conveyed to the borders? of Beniaro’s territory. created an excellent impression by re-building the Mosque Tower, partially destroyed in the bombardment of Casablanca.
LONDON, Yesterday. In the Commons one of the features of the debate on the Appropriation Bill was when Balfour renewed his protest against the closure. Bannerman replied “You can’t get quart votes into pints of time.” Bannerman added that the faults and blemishes in the grand committee experiment were remediable. Mr Birrell, replying to labour members, declared that the civil authorities at Belfast were justified in requistioning military as a precautionary measure. Everyone deplored the deaths caused, but had the mob obtained mastery, the loss of life would have been more terrible. Lord Ash (own, mentioned in the cables of 14th June, had a narrow •scape from assassination at 2 o’clock yesterday morning, and believes it was planned not locally but in the west of Ireland, where he was under police protection. I His Lordship was asleep over the drawing-room at Glenshiry lodge, his shooting seat in the County of Wexford, and the only other occu! pants were the lodge gamekeeper, an aL^ e latter’s wife and two maids. The explosion was heard a mile
away* and wrecked the drawingroom, hurling doors and furniture across the hall, ana shattered his lordship s window, and shutters. It also wrenched a marble mantlepiece m the bedroom from the wall. The curtains and carpet in the drawingroom broke into flames, which were quickly extinquished. The miscreants had placed a charge of powder on the drawingroom window sill. fragments of a metal pot in a specially made iron frame, intended
to increase the force of the explosion, were found with three fuses in each. saturated with paraffin, weMpvurled, after the explosion into room, and a ladder, too s k°r^^ r eaoh Ashtown’s window, was £ounc|B|pw shattered. Nopnie has been discovered. BERLIN, Yesterday. German newspapers of all shades are gratifified at the cordiality of the Kaiser and King Edward at the banquet, and at the fact that King Edward spoke in German. . VIENNA, Yesterday. ' An official communique regarding the conversation of upwards of an hour between ; Baron Aerenthal, Austrian Minister for Foreign Affairs, and Mr Harding, declares that on all questions of current politics touched, upon, both recognised the reforms introduced in Macedonia by the Entente Powers, with other Powers support, are in full agreement with Britain's latest declaration*. Similar identity of views was apparent regarding the impending proposals to the Porte and the method dealing with Macedonia hands, as was also the attitude of other Powers in full accord with British and Austrian views.
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Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 43216, 17 August 1907, Page 3
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559Miscellaneous. Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 43216, 17 August 1907, Page 3
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