VARIOUS CABLES THE MURDERED PREMIER.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10433, 26 September 1911, Page 3

VARIOUS CABLES

THE MURDERED PREMIER.

United Press Association — By Electric Telegraph — Copyright. THE CANADIAN ELECTIONS. SIR WILFRID LAURIER'S INTENTIONS.. (Received September 25, 9 a.m.) OTTAWA, September 24.

Sir Wilfrid Laurier has reversed his decision to retire from politics and has announced that he will remain with his party for some time. He is now making preparations to quit office immediately. •Lord Beresford, interviewed at Vancouver, congratulated the Canadians on the result of the election.

[ September 25, 9.5 a.m.) NEW YORK, September -«. Congressman McColl, the introducer of the original Reciprocity Bill, declares that the puerile annexation bogey led Canada to reject as golden an opportunity as she is likely to ever have. Mr Taft, at St. Louis, said that he was content to abide by the result of tho Canadian election. He regretted the failure to pass Reciprocity, but ho had been long enough on the Bench to know when a final decision had been given. OTTAWA, September 24. Mr Borden states that thirty years 'hence the people of Canada will look back at this election as the turning point in their destiny. The Conservatives would endeavour to build up Canada as an autonomous nation witibin the Empire. It is expected that the deferred elections will result in further defeats of the Liberals. NEW YORK, September .24. The Chicago wheat market has completely recovered its stability, which was effected <by the Reciprocity defeat.

NEW SOUTH WALES POLITICS

THE LAND QUESTION.

(Received September 25, 10 a.m.)

SYDNEY, September 25. The Hon. Mr Beeby has delivered a policy speech. He said the confiscation boagey was too disreputable for use. The real issue was ready and cheap access to the land, against the maintenance of the old system of monopoly and privilege.

Within three months 300,000 acres would be taken from reserves and improvement leases and would be offered for settlement in living area blocks under a perpetual lease. No rent would be asked in the first five years provided two and a half per cent, of the value was spent, yearly on improvements. After five years a rent of two and a half per cent *n the capital value would be charged and would be re-apprised every twenty, years.

Absolutely the only restriction will be that the tenant cannot sell or hold the land for speculative purposes. No country in the world offered a better system of land tenure. No man in a closer settlement district could hold more than a living area. The speaker urged that all districts near towns and railways be proclaimed closer settlement districts. The holding of large areas out of use in these districts would be made more and more irksome. He proposed to add a clause, to the Act empowering the Government to resume improvement' leases under whicli, at present eight million acres were held, 'two' million of which were suitable for closer settlement. The valuation for resumption would be done by a Board, the decision of which would be final. It will adopt the New Zealand method, the value placed on the land for taxation plus ten per cent, being tfhe maximum value for resumption. Referring to combines, 3ie declared that wherever people were being exploited the Government will enter into competition.

BRIGANDS ATTACKED

(Received Sept. 25, 1.5 p.m.) .LISBON, September 24. Troops, after, a sharp fight in which 'they kilfcsd two brigands and seriously wounded six, captured a large quantity of stolen valuable. The gang had terrorised tflie Vallongo district.

A JOURNALIST ARRESTED

(Received Sept. 25, 9.50 a.m.), LISBON, September 24. The Spanish authorities have arrested Pineiro Ohjagos, editor of the newspaper Cbrrecodmanha, who was expelled from France and Coudhino last February, for conspiracy. He has been handed over to the Portuguese police.

AN ATTEMPT THAT FAILEo.

(Received Sept. 25, 9.5 a.m.) NEW YORK, September 24. Fowler, tho American aviator, wlio was attempting the trans-continental trip, was unable to cross the Sierra mountains. He returned and landed in Colfax.

He stated the engine was not strong enough to carry him across t)he summits. FowleT will probably 'abandon the attempt.

(Received Sept. 25, 9.50 a.m.) ST. PETERSBURG, September 24. The Czar has ordered a comprehensive inquiry into the operations of the Kieff political police. Stolypin was buried at Kieff amid signs of universal grief. There was a huge assemblage, including the Ministry and high functionaries. The Novoe Vremya that that Bogrofl: was an accomplice of Mouraieff, who committed suicide early last September, after being delegated to murder Stolypin. The Chief of the Secret Police accepted Bogroff's proposal to effect a sensational arrest of other conspirators at the theatre; but Stolypin had not been informed of these plans.

INQUIRY ORDERED

(Received Sept. 25, 9.50 a.m.) CAPETOWN, Sept. 24. A Government commission will enquire into the East Rand Proprietary affairs, owing to the disappearance of £60,000 Avorth of gold during treatment in a cyanide planth

SIR ROBERT HART

(Received Sept. 25, 9.50 a.m.) :•" PEKING, September 24. Sir Robert Hart, (who died last week) was posthumously promoted to be Senior Guardian of the Heir Apparent, and a decoration was conferred on him.

DEAR FOODS

(Received «Sept. 25, 9,50 a.m.)

BERLIN, September 24,

The municipalities in important provincial towns are debating relief measures to combat dear food. The Prussian Government is lowering freights.

ANTI-HOME RULE,

DEMONSTRATION AT BELFAST

(Received Sept. 25, 9.5 a.m.)

LONDON, September 24. The Bishop of Qssory, addressing the Kilkenny Synod, said Church property would be in considerable danger if Home Rule is passed, unless all Irish Church property is explicitly excluded from the operation of the Bill. The Catholics toad repeated'y hinted that properties alienated would "become the property of the Roman Church. There wais an anti-Home Rule demonstration at Belfast? One hundred thousand persons marched in a procession and twenty thousand arrived by special trains from all parts of Ulster. The Earl of Erne presided. A resolution pledging the meeting to support Sir Edward Carson in whatever action he might take and whatever danger he faced in connection with Home.Rule. Sir Edward Carson said the first duty was to ensure that under no circumstances could any Home Rule Bill be made effective as far as the Unionists in Ulster were concerned. He added that they must be prepared, should an emergency occur, to be accountable for the administration of those districts they were entitled to control. (Cheers).

THE IRISH STRIKES

(Received Sept. 25, 9.50 a.m.)

LONDON, September 24. Troops are guarding Cork tunnel and Limerick Junction. Five thousand boilermakers unanimously voted for the abolition of the premium bonus system in the engineering and Shipbuilding trades. Unanimous votes were likewise cast by the combined smiths, the unite:! coppersmiths, and the Birmingham metal workers.

TROUBLE IN SPAIN

(Receved Sept. 25, 9.50 a.m.) ..';■'''■)' MADRID, September 24., There is a general strike at Orveido, and all Trade Unionists are idle. ...• There is widespread discontent, fear: of a Moroccan war being the principal cause of Spanish um-est.

ITALY'S TROUBLE

THE TRIPOLI SITUATION. ■

(Received Sept. 25, 10.10 a.m.) CONSTANTINOPLE, Sept. 24

Colonel Fenzi, chief of the staff of the Salonika' Army Corps, has been appointed to Command the troops in Tripoli, hitherto commanded by the Governor Information from Italian sources show iih'at a certain anti-Italian feeling is manifested in various parts of the Empire. . ' •■ , Two Italian warships are in readiness at Sicily, for lise in the event of Italian colonies in Tripoli being endangered.

CAIRO, September 24. • A sensational repoi't is current here that the Turks have captured the Italian liner Reina Margberita at Messina.

ROME, September 24. Owing to the incompleteness of the members now with the colours, a part of the 1888 Massowah contingent has been summoned. There is a great exodus of Italians from Tripoli, fearing an outburst of fanaticism against them.