CABLE NEWS.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXIX, Issue 7733, 1 March 1909, Page 4

CABLE NEWS.

PRESS CONFERENCE. ] LONDON, February 28.. The delegates to the Imperial Press Congress will be lodged at the Waldorf Hotel. GAMBLING COMPETITIONS. < Mr Gladstone promised a deputation J of proprietors and editors to legislate 1 upon the question of gambling competi- ' tions in newspapers. j GERMAN TAXATION. j BERLIN, February 27. Owing to a threatened rupture with ; the Bloc, Prince yon Bulow, to save the Government, abandoned the estate duty in favour of higher legacy duties < and fresh, indirect taxon. THE UNITED STATES TARIFF. NEW YORK, February 27. Mr Taft, in an interview, favoured the revision of the tariff. He added that tho existing schedules were impending business like a drag on a brake. THE FRENCH TARIFF AND FROZEN MEAT. LONDON, February 27. _ Among the, tariff details a dispute is proceeding between the French Government and the Parliamentary Committee respecting frozen meat. The committee urges fifty francs general tariff, and the Government urges thirty 7 five out of consideration to the Canadian Convention. THE HOP INDUSTRY. LONDON, February 27. In the House of Lords, Earl Carring- ! ton stated that the Government, recognising that the hop industry was in a critical condition, wr.s prepared to reintroduce the Hop Bill. This in no wise touched questions of protection. LOCAL OPTION IN SCOTLAND. In the House of Commons, Mr D. Pirie's Temperance in Scotland Bill, embodying the principle of local option, was read a. second time by 174 to 64. CALIFORNIA AND ASIATICS. SAN FRANCISCO, February 27. The California Senate, by 27 to 7, recommended the exclusion of all Asiatics from the United States. SMALLPOX. PERTH, February 28. The steamer Redbridge, from Calcutta, has been quarantined at "Bunbury. Captain Smith died of smallpox. Some members of the crew are suffering from the disease. BOGUS NEW ZEALAND GOODS. SYDNEY, February 28. The New Zealand Government Agency is investigating several ' cases where goods alleged to be of New Zealand origin have been offered for sale. In one instance material purporting to be New Zealand flannel goods was displayed, but it turned out to be not flannel at all but mere shoddy.