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; ' DlXlZlLirs TKIAL. % Lundun, December 2y. Sir E. (i. Jellicoe has lett for Durlnu to defend Dinizulu. b Jr J Llgn, i u „ •oggested that the trial l>c posiponej to await couusel's arrival. BILLLAiIDS. , bjndon, Decvnilicr 2.1. At billiards, at St. \ inicnt, in a gtiikOf 12,000 up, llai version defeated \> eiss. the Australian champiun, by 12,00u to tyisi THE SIXTH DIIKADXut dliT. London. December 2.1. ■ another M^reSdbuught, h, was U'd THE SI'EVIC KKPAIJtEDT London, December 2:1. The Suevic has been repaired, and atarta for Liverpool within a fortnight ' to load for Australia. HOI'SIXt; OF MIXERS. London, December 2't. t At the instance of Haron Monks,< ell. a Royaf Coinmis«ion, consisting of Dr. J- C. S. llaldane. will inspe<-t Seoltish miners' houses with a view to making recommendations on the subject.
THE XEW AI'STHALIAX ADMIRAL. ! . London, December 2:1. j Admiral Sir Richard I'oore, who smceeda Admiral Sir Wilinot Fawkes in tbe command of the Australian s<piad- : ton, will leave for Australia by (1mP- and O. steamer China on Januarv 1 17th. ' | GALES IX EXdLISH CIIAXXEL. | London, December 2». . An easterly pie, with heavy seas ami I •Bow aquallß, is raging in the Channel, j The steamer Orontes reports verv l«d 1 weather. , j SCOTTISH MIXEKS' FEDERATION, j , London, December 20. I The Scottish Miners' Federation ton i fcrence, held at dlaogow, by 38 to 43. i Begatived a proposal to ask Parliament ! to compel coalmasters to collect Miners' [ Union funds at colliery offices. Anothci | resolution expressed extreme dieapiuint -! "meat that old age pensions were not | provided for in last year's Budget. DROUGHT IX INDIA. i London, December 2!'. I j Drought in the Punjaub ha.s reduced | the area under wheat from nine to live million acres. INDIAN TROOPS' LOYALTV. * . Ijondon, December i'l. At the jubilee of Hobson's Ilotw- at Lahore Colonel Cowper led (In- march past, and the regiment saluted its { Native retired veterans. This evoked a | spontaneous demonstration of loyalty on j the part of the Native soldiers and j- Native officers, who solemnly declare! , that they had not participate<l in the f recent unrest and that they almminated - - all gedhionmongers. . BRITAIN'S XEdLEtTKD HERuFS Uni'Wili. Deeeml«-r 20. The Daily Telegraph empha-ise- tint many of the Indian veterans who \<>rc recently ban<|iietted came from the B workhouses and returned there. The r nation, the paper adds, must rescue -*V them and terminate sui-h a reproach.
; PORT ARTIIIR COI RT MARTI.U. St. Petersburg. Decemlier i The evidence at (lie Port Arthur ; cddrt*martial is .iimi>-t uniformly un ! f*vor*ble to General Stoessel, who h i- j not been able to rebut the charge of un | warrantable interference with Cencr.il Smelnoff. commandant of the fortrei. i IMPERIAL DEFEXCE. Mellmurnc. Decemlier ."Ml. Mr Deakin. Federal Premier, referring to tin 1 cabled summary of Sir John Oolomb's article. says xime allowance most be made for the language «i a W controversialist. Sir .Tuhn Oolonib hi.! approached the subject from the |-iint Tie* of a partisan. As to his state Mat that the nation must refuse to men to colonial officers a-king tor money to multiply sea route*. Australia had certainly not made any appeal for Imperial assistance. OBITUARY. Melbourne. December :tn. The Rev. Dr. Fkon. ethnologi-t and ex-Fijian missionary, is dead. Hobart, Decemlier Th" death i« amwunced of the Catholic Archbishop Mu«fc. aged !),1 vears. DROWXIXIFFATAUTY. /Sydney. December 30. Another surf-Withing fatality hiram) at Xewcastlc. making three ii |r live dav.. " TIEAVY RAINS IX YKT<>I!IA. * Nearly five inches of rain fell 'lni n the recent storm. The temperature fe J*' from 100 in the shade to tfi dcgrei t * torty-eight hours later.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 306, 31 December 1907, Page 3
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