CABLE NEWS

Bush Advocate, Volume XX, Issue 937, 3 February 1908, Page 5

CABLE NEWS

Press Assn— By telegraph— Copyright. LONDON, Yesterday. Ninety guineas has been paid to reinsure' tho ship Castlerock, from Sydney to Seattle. BUENOS AYRES, Yesterday. Admiral Evans' fleet passed Cape Virgents, tho ex twine south-east of tho^Argentino Republic. The vacancy created in South Herefordshire by 'tho death of Mr Gardner has been filled by the election of •Captain Clivo (.unionist), who polled 4946 votes, Mr Thomson (Liberal) securing 3928. SYDNEY. Yesterday. Mr Wado is of opinion that some protest should bo made against the proposal of the Imperial party in Germany to send convicts to their Pacific possessions. MELBOURNE, To-day. Mr Deakin, in an interview on the -subject of tho German convict proposal, said: "One docs not comment •on a proposal made to a foreign Parliament, because, comment at this ■stage might bo an intrusion. All I will say is that the. German Reichstag is certain to consider tho influence upon its own tropic possessions of an influx of such a class of settlers. "We could not witness such a departure without regret for their settlements in the Pacific' and without some, apprehension for our own." . SYDNEY, Saturday.

Captain Spinks, who had charge of the operations for salving the Thodo Fageland, succceeded. in getting tho big steamer off the rocks, and towed her safely to Sydney.