News Items.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 184, 3 August 1901, Page 4

News Items.

Youngsr American operatives are dis posed to reject the compromise made bythe steel workers, who were on striker P believing that it Will have a fatal influencO on their association. In the House of Commons Mr OTSheawas suspended : for referring to thfe " blackguardly " conduct of the Irian, Judges. Mahota, the Maori King, was Sued 'isWellington by George Bradley, in thfe Magistrates' Court on Thursday, for , £lB2, the'cost of boardiog part df hi* retinue when he visited Wellington. Thfr ; case waa adjourned to- enable defendant to summon witnesses to dispute 'thfr reasonableness of v the charges. The Premier has replied to a telegram from the secretary to the League of New- > Zealand Wheelmen that he will bring ; bef./re the Cabinet the matter <:f making; the Cycle Boards Bill a Government measure. The House of Commons declared the Daily Mail's article denouncing Mr Brodrick a breach of privilege, but at Mr Balfour's instance negatived Mr McNeill's motion summoning the editor and publisher to the Bar of the House by ; 222 to 12?. ; New regulations in connection with ! the Civil Service examinations will be gazettedi .The syllabus for the senior examination has been- considerab'y increased, with the object of giving cadet* m the service an opportunity to paBS in subjects pertaininy to fheir own particn. ha departments.