TO-DAY'S CABLES

Feilding Star, Volume XXVII, Issue 155, 30 January 1906, Page 2

TO-DAY'S CABLES

The Algeolras Conference. Telegraph Copyright Press Association. Received Jan 80, 8.48 a.m. ( Madrid, Jan 29. The Moroccan delegates submitted to the Algeciraa Conference an elaborate plan of general reform and tax- , ation, involving a large increase in ' the customs. i Japan's War Bill. 1 London, Jan 29. Reuters' correspondent at Tokio states the actual outlay of the war on the army was 99 million pounds and | the navy 18 million pounds. An* ! other sixty million will be required for the repatriation of the army and > other expenses. French Press Complaints. Paris, Jan 29. [ Le Temps complains that while ' Germany is professing friendly feeling the German Press is constantly dwelling on French misdeeds and | brandishing the Imperial sabre. i A Fire-Brand Speech. i Berlin, January 29. i Herr BaUertrem, president of the Reichstag, in a fulsome speech at a ' banquet in honour ot the Kaiser's birthday, urged the Chamber to vote for armaments to enable the nation to knock on the head anyone lightly I disturbing the peace. He added that most of the Powers would not require [ that discipline if they only knew they ; would be beaten if necessary by the ' first army of the world and a grow- • ing navy. ; The Unemployed Difficulty. London, Jan 29. | Mr Bryce, in Dublin, said be did ; not think it possible to make provision for work for the unemployed . by taxing the workers, who were possibly on the edge of poverty, for ; the benefit of others perhaps not , equally industrious. The Delagoa Railway. London, January 29. Great Britain and Portugal have agreed on such a readjustment of , Delagoa Railway rates as to enable one third of the Transvaal traffic to go by that route. Death of the King of Denmark. London, January 29. Obituary— -The King of Denmark. Wool Prices Firm London, January 29. Wool iB firm with strong competition in all sections. Welcome Rains Sydney, This Day. Three inches of rain fell at Blayney in forty-five minutes. Brisbane, This Day. Splendid rain has fallen in a great portion of the State. Eleven and a holf inches fell at Herbeston. A Tempestuous Voyage Sydney, This Day. The steamer Strathnevis arrived at Newcastle after a tempestuous voyage from Hong Kong. She drifted for four days in the Coral Sea owing to an accident to her cylinders. Railway Accident Melbourne, This Day. Thirty-nine persons have been notified as injured at Gembrook. Federrl Capital Site Melbourne, This Day. Speaking at the Exhibition luncheon, the State Premier suggested that the Federal capital difficulty could be settled by letting Melbourne and Sydney have ten years about until they were prepared to establish a capital. A Bombastic Premier. Melbourne, This Day The State Premier in his speech at the Exhibition, referring to the position of Australia in relation to Canada and New Zealand, said we need not care a button about Canada or New Zealand either. They tilk about New Zealand, yet when she wants money she comes to Victoria. She has come for half a million, but I manage to get ahead of her. Wheel Race. Melbourne, This Day. In the Wheel Race Cameron, 95 yds, Levey 115 yds, Whitson 90yds. Won by a length.