CABLE NEWS. BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Feilding Star, Volume I, Issue 289, 12 June 1907, Page 4

CABLE NEWS. BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

♦ ißr Elm-tbio Tbltobaph— CoctbiobtJ [PER PREBB ASSOCIATION.] THE ARMY DEBATE. London, June 11. Mr Haldane in the Army, debate said he appreciated the desire genfiallv expressed in the House to retain'national or special descriptions of corns, but ho declined an amendment making it statutory. He added that retention will doubtless re possible in many cases. Mr Balfonr suggested that militia in England and Scotland should be » Mowed. as the, Irish supply drafts and serre as units. Mr Haldane, amid cheers, recogrisod the importance of the suggestion and promised its earnest consideration. THE WOOLWICH EMPLOYEES. A fresh ballot at Woolwich favoured the discontinuance of five days per week. The men prefer to be discharged rather than that their comrades should make further sacrifice. CAPSIZED AT SEA. New York, June 11. The scboonpr La Jalouse, from Cayenne for St. Lneia, was swamped and capsized off Barbadoes. Twentyseven landed and 28 passengers were drowned, including 12 wemen and children. THE IMPERIAL CONFERENCE. London, June 11. Mr Churchill replying to a question, said the conversation following Sir R. Bond's speech on the Newfoundland fisheries was not published because the Conference considered the public wish contrary to public intoiest, pending negotiation with a foreign power. MR BENT. At the Victorian banquet to Mr Bent, the latter, replying to the toast of his health, said investors need not be afraid of investments in Australia, where the security was as good as in England. Socialism in England was Far worse than in Australia. There was no need to fear the Australian Labour Party. Nowhere in the world have working men so many houses of their own. ROOSEVELT ON SOCIALISM. New York, June 11. President Roosevelt, in a bpeech at Norfolk, in Virginia, earnest!* 7 hoped that the country's superbly self-reliant individualism would never be exchanged for deadening socialism. He advocated legislation whereby the burden of compensation of workmei shall fall on employers, who by increasing the price of prodnots would plaaa it on the general p«l:lic. There was no sound economic reason for distinction between accidents due to legligence and those unavoidable, and the law should make payment automatic.