GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 506, 13 May 1909, Page 7

GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

(DYTEtiEOBAPa—MESS ASSOCIATION—COFYIUGUT.) DEVELOPMENT ■ OF. PAPUA-RUBBER PLANTING. .;. ; : (Rec.. May 12, 9.45 p.m.) . ■ ■' London, May 12. The Morabiri Rubber Plantations has' been registered, with' a capital of' £52,500, to acquire tne Wickham Estate, Collingwood Bay, Papua. [Papua (Now Guinea) 1 is rich in natural resources, but backward in development., The climate favours the cultivation of all tropical prodncts. At present the chief exports lire trepang, copra, poarl-shell, gold, anil sandalwood.] CANADIAN INVESTMENT MONEYS. Ottawa, May . 12. •' The Dominion House of 'Commons has amended the Insurance Bill to permit companios to invest in! securities of any British colony. ■' ■■ . LIVING WAGE FOR MINISTERS. ! London, May 12. The Living Wage for''Ministers' Fund of tho Congregational Union has reached £33,360. : DUKE OF NORFOLK'S LIBERALITY. " London, May 11. : The Duko of Norfolk has presented Norfolk Park, which is worth £60,000, to the town of Sheffield. ' ■ BUENOS AYRES STRIKE OVER. r ■ Buenos flyres, May .11, The strike which took placo as a protest against tho forcible, suppression of tho May Day demonstration has. , CANADA'S TREATY-MAKING. Ottawa, May 11. Tho Canadian Government has consented to open fresh negotiations with Italy for a commercial treaty. ; MARRIAGE TIE LOOSENING. Sydney, May 12. Mr._ Justice Pring, .dealing with a ca'so in the Divorco Court, said tho marriage jaw was treated abominably. No respect was shown for'tho'marriage tie, home, or children. It was just like a oondition of savagery. ' ' DOLEFUL. , " . Sydney, May.l 2. A New.Zealander called at tho Trades Hall and gave a doleful account of trade depression in the Dominion. Ho declared that business was falling off in nearly every trado, and hundreds of mon woro idlo in almost every branch of industry. ARRESTED AT PERTH. . ' ■ V forth. May 12. ■ .when.the steamer.Orotava, arrived here,,a deteotivo arrested an Austrian- gum-digger named Ravelick on a' provisional warrant, charging him with obtaining at DargaviUo, Now Zealand, by false pretences., a gold chain and loeket, of tho value of £11, from Elias Maodick.