GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Auckland Star, Volume XLII, Issue 23, 30 January 1911, Page 5

GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Count yon Bex, German Minister to Pekin, has been appointed Ambassador to Japan.

The British Playgoers' Club entertained a thousand of the poorest children of London at the pantomimes. m

Cholera has practically disappeared from Madeira, but l<s cases, eight fatal, are reported from Perim.

Two German companies are seeking to monopolise trade in the Black Sea and convey passengers and cargo at rates considerably below the Russian.

The Australian Labour Conference negatived motions providing for compulsory voting, voting machines, and reduction of members. '

The New South Wales country, suburban, municipal.and shire election returns received show that Labour has' not gained the victories expected.

At the inter-State band contest the championship was won by Manly, with Newcastle City second, and Metropolitan third.

The pillage of wagons at Vaughirard station, Paris, of bales of cotton and farm products, totals £40,000 sterling annually. The wagons are insufficiently guarded.

The Persian Government has compensated Britain and Russia for outrages on their respective subjects, including the murder of two Sepoys escorting the Consul, from Bushire to Shiraz.

Owing to a defect in her steering gear, H.M.R. Implacable had to retire from the high sea manoeuvres off the Spanish coast.

America has strongly protested to the Porte owing' to soldiers, when voyaging aboard the steamer New Jersey, assaulting the American Consular Agent at Alexandretta because he intervened during a riotous outbreak.

The "London Observer's" St. Petersburg correspondent instances as one of the results of the Potsdam interview between the Czar and the Kaiser, the Whitsea fisheries move, showing that the key to

Russia's foreign relations is economic, not political. / . - . ■■. Borings ior the foundations of the breakwater for the great harbour scheme -at Singapore are in some instances 60ft •wrong. Cook, Son, and Matthew*, engineers, blame the Straite Setttamenta Works Departroenfc for aisatksdtting ■• ->■- ■ ":•■■-■;■-••■•.-- ■ '--/■■" -f- '■•'•*