CABLE NEWS.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXi, Issue 6066, 12 September 1903, Page 4

CABLE NEWS.

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{ Bussia in the Par East* j St Pktersbubg, Sept. li 1 3 .!/00 Russian troops and 64 guns have j betm efut to the Far Kast since May. j of timd-expired soldiers are j a.-captiujf iadncetnents to settle there. International Dairy Confirreas. Brussels, Sept. 11 Fire hundred delegates attending the lateruatioual Dairy Congress rejected a proposa' to prohibit the sale of butter I adulterated with an admixture of a large ] proportion 01 foreign fats, and left each \ country at liberty to adopt its own measures ] to prevent adulteration with margariue and other fats. They expressed the hope that only those butters will ba imported which were provided with a certificate of origin, on thit contained a high proportion of fatty acids.

.- Bank of Australasia. London, Sept. 11 The Bank of Australasia declares a dividend of 12 per oent., appropriating d£30,000, and bas carried forward .£16,353. . British Tradss Unions. Demand a Legislative Eight Hours The Trade* Uuion Congress, by 824,000 lo 228,000 votes resolved in favour of a legislative eight hours for all tradas and occupations as t« fit questions at all Parliamentary imd Municipal elections. A Disorderly Mining Meeting An uproarious meeting of shareholder 8 in the Associated Northern Blocks Mining Company, Kalgoorlie, has been held, lasting three hour*. Mr Doolette, the chairman, declared it was impossible to work with London, a director and ex chairman of the Company, who stigmatised his fellow directors as scoundrels and liars. The Board oouited inquiry by an independent committee which was nominated, a poll to be taken six weeks hence, thus allowing Australian proxies to arrive. Mr Landau violently attacked the Board and denied manipulating the market or using private information from the mine for speculative purposes. He doclared there was no valid reason for his removal from the directorate. A very hentad discussion followed and great confusion. An American Seizure, United Stfite3 worships have seized several islands in Sarval Bay, Borneo, which Great Britain Laa administered for a quarter of a century. Obituary.

Sydney, Sept. 11 Obituary—Lieutenant Drummond, of the warship Wallaroo, from pneumonia. Death from Gas Fumes. Three men occupying a bedroom at Miller's Point were overcome by the fumes from an escape of gap. One man named Sorenson is dead; the others are in a critical state.

Plague. Bbisbank, Sept 11 A Chinaman living in Fortirude Valley, has been found suffering from plague. The Health Officer regards it as a sporadic case, such as is nearly always found at tho end of the epidemic. No plague rats have been found since June Bth.