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Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 43339, 18 June 1908, Page 3

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ALLEGED MURDER. SYDNEY, June 16. ATtheßaikie trial several doctors gave evidence that Brown’s symptoms were consistent with arsenical poisoning. A STEAMER WRECKED. LONDON, June 16. > The steamer Villede Bruges was wrecked in the Congo River, seventy natives being drowned. . Of a number of Europeans who swam ashore four were eaten by cannibals. CARDINAL LOGUE. LONDON, June 16. At Lord Strathcona’s garden party at Krebsworth, Cardinal Logue was presented with the freedom of the City of Cork. In his speech in reply he condemned the Irish University Bill, and also the attempted exclusion of Maynooth College from the operation of the Bill. THE AMERICAN FLEET. SUVA, June 16. Rear-Admiral Sherry, who has succeeded Rear-Admiral Evans as commander of the Atlantic division of the American fleet,' notified the Government by cable to-day that the fleet would be unable to visit Fiji, as originally intended. A COLONIAL SWIMMER. BERLIN, June 16. Mr F. W. Springfield, a Queensland swimmer, who is the guest of the Hamburg Swimming Association won the ioo metres races without a dive or push-off in t minute 16 1-5 seconds, the 200 metres in 2 minutes 45 3*5 seconds, and the 600 metres in 9 minutes 20 seconds. 1

TAXATION COMMISSIONER’S POWERS.

SYDNEY, June 16. In the Bankruptcy Court, on a test case as to the right of the Commissioner of Taxation to petition in bankruptcy for the recovery of income tax, the Court held that the Commissioner was legally entitled to take proceedings in bankruptcy.

THE CONGO STATE.

LONDON, June 16. A Blue Book dealing with the Congo shows as the result of Sir E. Grey’s efforts Belguim promised satisfactory reforms in the Congd, including equality of trading, and as regards other stipulations and treaties. Sir E. Grey emphasised that the Congo State had not fulfilled the object for which it was originally organised, or the conditions of treaties, and described the system of taxation by labour as slavery.