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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 215, 20 December 1910, Page 2

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TAX OX DIAMOND MIXES. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright. Capetown, December 18. ■ A Bill levying a tax of 10 per cent, on the profits of Cape and Orangia diamond mines was read a second time in tiie Union Assembly. CHARGES OF PERJURY. Ottawa, December 18. Thirty arrests have been made in Re--gina and other towns of .Saskatchewan for perjury. A local option poll was recent: ly defeated throughout the province, and it has now been discovered that 70 per cent, of the voters were in favor of the temperance party. BEATRICE MARTEL. Paris, December 18. The coffin of Beatrice,. daughter of Charles Martel, who defeated the Saracens in one of the decisive battles of the world, has been discovered in the convent of St. Just at Grenoble. [Charles Martel stopped the tide of Mohammedan invasion by defeating the Saracens at Tours in A.D. 732.] THE WOOLLEN TRADE. London, December 18. Owing to a movement for an increase in wages, a meeting of the textile societies of the West Riding of Yorkshire initiated the principle of a working agreement in the woollen indiistry in general trade matters. A committee has been appointed to arrange details. ALBERTI CONVICTED OF FRAUD. Copenhagen, December 18. Alberti, former Minister of Justice, has been convicted of fraud, and sentenced to eight years, and fined 3000 kroner, the costs of the defence and prosecution. ALL HOPE ABANDOXED. London, December 18. All hope has been abandoned of the dredger Stonewall, which, with fifteen aboard, sailed from Hull a fortnight ago. A lifeboat and cutter have been picked up, marked "Stonewall."

A STREET AFFRAY. London, December 18. An affray occurred in the street at Liverpool yesterday. Forty Armenian emigrants, going to New York, fought with a variety of weapons, and five were stal.bed. T.venty arrests were effected. THE WELSH STRIKERS. London, December 18. Seven thousand men who struck in sympathy with the Powell Duffryn men will resume work to-morrow, but the latter are still obdurate and savage. DESTITUTE SAILORS' FUND. London, December IS. The Destitute Sailors' Fund, which is practically an Imperial labor exchange for seamen, resolved to reorganise and expand its work in order more thoroughly to assist those belonging to the oversea dominions. ARBITRATION FOR DISPUTES. New York, December 18. The engineers on sixty-one railways west of Chicago agree to arbitration to settle disputes. FLEECERS FLEECED. New York, December 18. Seven armed men held up a New York gambling club, robbed the inmates of a large sum, and escaped. A GARRISON RELIEVED. .Constantinople, December IS. The garrison of Kerak has been relieved.