THE WORLD’S NEWS

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 43342, 25 June 1908, Page 3

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ROYAL BIRTH.

MADRID, June 22. The Queen of Spain was accouched of a son.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

SYDNEY, June 22.

Gold Crest, 9.7, heads the Epsom Handicap weights. The other New Zealand horses ate weighted as follows :—Frisco 8 6, Cross Battery, 87; Apa 7 13, Sea King 7 13, Soultline 7 12, Golden Slipper 7 12, Maranui 7 ix, Rose Noble 7 7, Tamainupo 7 7, Ringdove 7 2, Nobel 7, Idyll 6 12. In the Metropolitan Stakes Poseidon, 9 13, is top weight. The New Zealand owned horses are weighted as follows Frisco 89, Cross Battery 8 2, Apa 7 12, Sfea King 7 10, Maranui 7 9, Soultline 7 7 Ringdove 7 0, Nobel 6 11.

FREE UNIONISTS.

BERLIN, June 23.

Carl Legien, Socialist member in the Reichstag, addressing the German Trades Union Congress at Hamburg claimed that free unionists now totalled nearly two million members, constituting the largest and most united organisation in the world despite continual opposition from the ruling classes and the Government.

Legien complained that the new Associations Law showed the Government was still bent on opposing the Labour movement.

CAPE FORAGE.

CAPETOWN, June 23. A strong feeling has been aroused in Capetown owing to Australia’s prohibition of Cape forage, and retaliation is suggested. Both parties in the Assembly protested vigorously and emphasised that Cape forage had absolute freedom.

The Minister for Agriculture promised to communicate with the Commonwealth. ,

SEDITION IN INDIA.

CALCUTTA, June 23.

Addressing the Legislative Council at Poona, Sir Sydenham Clarke said it was impossible for the Government to sit with folded arms when they were confronted with a deliberate organisation for the indiscriminate murder, though the employment of force against the misguided people was hateful.

PAN-ANGLICAN CONGRESS.

LONDON, June 23.

At the sittings of the Congress today, Bishops Williams, of Waiapu, and Cooper, of Grafton, New South Wales, and Canon Gfoser, spoke upon the Churches responsibility towards aborigines. Bishop Kennion, formerly of Adelaide, remarked that one reason why the conversion of the natives in North Australia had not been more successful, was because the language was in a constant state of flux, and converts were only able to instruct their own tribe. *

NATIVES OF PAPUA

LONDON, June 23.

The Bishop of New Guinea, Dr. Stone-Wigg, interviewed relative to the new labour ordinance passed in Papua, stated that if forced labour is only insisted upon for the necessary Government work there will be no objection to it, but the Government had no right to inaugurate compulsion in the interests of [a handful of white settlers.

Since the natives were unrepresented. m the Papuan Legislative Council, it was impossible, he remarked, to say that the Government represented the native views.