CABLE NEWS. THE LATEST.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXIX, Issue 7734, 2 March 1909, Page 2

CABLE NEWS. THE LATEST.

HOME AND FOREIGN.

fJm'ted Press Association —Per Electric Telegraph—Copyright. . UNITED, STATES NAVY. WASHINGTON, March 1. Congress eliminated an amendment requiring President Roosevelt to divide the Navy between the Atlantic and the Pacific. President Roosevelt strongly op nosed the project, because Russian and Japanese experience showed that division was weakness. , RUSSIA IN MANCHURIA. LONDON, March 1. The situation arising from Russia's insistence on adininisterug the municipal government of Harbin is nearing a crisis. Tho interested-Powers .-will approach China with a view to stronger action. PUBLIC MEETINGS IN TURKEY.., CONSTANTINOPLE/ March 1. , The regulations-requiring all public meetings in Turkey to be sanctioned by the authorities are strongly denounced in Constantinople. WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY. PARIS, March 1. The wireless station on the Eiffel Tower has established regular communication with Glace Bay, Canada. INSURANCE OF GERMAN ; WORKERS.

BERLIN, March 1. Germany proposes to add insurance of widows and orphans'to the existing old age scheme. Employer and employee will each pay half, the Government adding 50 marks in the case of a widow's pension and 30 marks each lor orphans. Insurance sickness for agricultural workers, servants, and casual labourers is also provided. INTERNATIONAL COPYRIGHT. Received March 2, 8.35' a.m.' LONDON, March 1. Lord Tennyson, delegate for the Commonwealth to the International Copyright Conference, states that the provisions in the Australian Act requiring the registration of foreign works, and possible manufacture, in Australia, is essentially opposed to the new convention, and a mere irritating formality depriving many works of the copyright to which, otherwise, they would be entitled. He says that this restriction must be abandoned before Australia can becomo a member of the International Union, AN UNDERMANNED FLEET? LONDON, March 1. The Standard declares that the Home Fleet, beginning its cruise to-day, ia badly undermanned. NAVAL PROGRAMMES, Received March 2, 3,5 a.m, LONDON, March 1. Mr Asquith's immediate supporters favour the prosecution of the Government's shipbuilding programme being slackened during construction, if Germany's: pace should warrant this oqjirse.. " A SATISFACTORY TEST.

A British six-inch howitzer, designed! to operate against military aeroplanes, has been satisfactorily tested. AN EARL'S ESTATE, The late Earl of Leicester's gross estate has been eworn at £$"9,694.,