GENERAL CABLEGRAMS.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1796, 8 July 1913, Page 5

GENERAL CABLEGRAMS.

By Telegraph—Prc6s Aesooiatton—Copyright 9 PRICE OF BUTTER: FALL OF Gs. (Rec. July 7, 11.30 p.m.) Sydney, July 7. Butter is quoted at 1205., a fall of Gs. A "NATURALISED" MINISTER. Melbourne, July 7. The Victorian Attorney-General. (Hon. J. D. Brown)' announces that he does not intend to take any action regarding tho question of the naturalisation raised against Mr. Fielding's elevation to tho Cabinet. Ho considers that sinco Mr. Fielding's father and mother wero British, ho is therefore also a British subject, notwithstanding that ho was bora in America. A LONG VOYAGE. Sydney, July 7. Tho schooner Americana, 126 Mays out from Columbia River, has arrived at Sydney. The voyage usually takes GO days. - DEATH SENTENCE COMMUTED. Sydney, July 7. Tho youth Allen Main, convicted of the murdor of Mr. Overton (a laundry-keener, in tho suburb of Manly), and sentenced to death, has had his sentence commuted to imprisonment for life. SCHOONER DESERTED. Sydney, July 7. Tho steameT Lord Cromer has rescued tho crew of the Sydney-owned schooner Tramp, which was dismasted during a recent galo off tho coast. Tho men had drifted about for five days beforo boing nicked up. Tho Bchooner is now drifting, tho derelict having been abandoned 125 miles due oast of Newcastle.

BIGHT. HON. A. LTTTELTON'S DEATH. London, July fi. Tha King has condoled witli Mrs. Lyttelton. IMPERIAL BOY SCOUT REVIEW. London, July 6. Prince Arthur of Connaught has inspected thirty thousand Boy Scouts from all parts of the Empire and the Continent at Birmingham. SHIPPING CONTRACT. 4 — AND DAIRY ASSOCIATION. Matters concerning the shipment of dairy produoo to England from New Zealand were submitted by tho Dairy Section (committee) to the Council of the Cliamber of Commerce, which theroujjon deputed a further elucidation of tho position by referring the section's report to a special committee. That committee, after detailing the contract which exists between tlio National Dairy Association, and tho New Zealand and Shaw, Savill and Albion Steamship Companies, says:— "With regard to exporters who are not members of tho National Dairy Association, your committee finds that theso firms have always been granted the right to ship under the contract at tho rates of freight stipulated in tho contract, and in tho ovent of any exporter purchasing dairy produce, it may be consigned from n grading port cither to tho ship or to the exporter himself; the shipping companies paying coastal freight and Wellington transhipping charges. a "For the convenience of tho shipping Companies tho booking in terms of tho oontraet is made by t.lie National Dairy Association. The shipping companies state, however, that other exporters may book space, and ship at tho rates of freight provided for in tho contract, but ample notice would, of course, bo needed of their requirements. "Your committee is informed that in no case has produco shipped by exportera. not members of tho National Dairy Association, been shnit out, while nt times produce booked by the association has been shut out.

"Tho contract is exclusively mill the National Dairy Association and lis members to tlio extent mentioned above, but as a matter of practice wo nre informed by thn representative.") of tlio shinning companies that outside exporting firms can ship dairy produco and avail themselves of the shlippinp contract. "We may add further (says tlio report) that most dairy factories are members of the association, and they -undertake in soiling their outputs foi' London to sell subject to the shipping agreement—in effect. soiling f.0.1). ocean steamer. The produco is, therefore, tlio property of tlio factories until It is oil board ocoan steamer, nnd remains so until payment is nindo by tlio purchaser and bill of lading lifted." Tlio report, without discussion, was re-' forred back to the Dairy Section.