SHIPPING RING.

Bush Advocate, Volume XXI, Issue 285, 5 June 1909, Page 3

SHIPPING RING.

LONDON,:, yesterday. The Tin <«••"•; is inclined to support the nsij^'rity report foi the Shipping Rinsi 'Commission. 'It ■declares.it' is glad that both reports in different degrees. favour watching, carefully the operation and development of the conference system and the necessity of being prepared for more stringent regulation should events demand it. LONDON 'PAUPERS. LONDON, yesterday. Mr John Burns, at the National Liber-aJ Club, stated there Avere 1300 fewer paupers in London "than at the <md of February and 100 fewer than in June. 1908. That indicated that trade was reviving. DROUGHT IN THE ARGENTINE. BUENOS AYRES, yesterday. Th# -drought in the Argentine is causing anxiety to breeders and agriculturalists. THE TRENCH DANTON. LONDON, yesterday. The difficulty in the way of completing the launch, of the -French Dreadnought, Danton, is that the gradient is insufficiently steeii for the ship's weight. The workmen are re- . building the ways beneath the ship. THE SHAH. LONDON, Yesterday. The Provincial Council at Khorassa'n protested against the Shah borrowing without Parliamentary authority. It declares' the people will not acknowledge the new debt. '?