CABLE NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume IV, Issue 1144, 29 March 1910, Page 1

CABLE NEWS.

13H1BI' , ITEMB FROM THE WIDE

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The Japanese cruisers Aso and Soya are now at Hot/art.

The Federal authorities of Canada are prosecuting the owners and operators of numerous western elevators on charges of making fraudulent returns and improperly blending superior and inferior grades of grain for Foreign markets. Labour circles in Canada, have been exasperated by the Dominion Coal and Iron Company oi : iSiova. Scotia arranging to import a thousand English miners to replace strikers, and a- private Bill hiijs been introduced in the Nova Scotia Legislature making the recognition, by masters of trade unions compulsory and forbidding the im-por.ta-tion of strike-breakers. Sir Krnest Shaekleton. was the guest of tho Transportation Club of New York. In responding to .the toast of ibis health lie said he felt sure that Captain' Scott would succeed because he bad the right methods. He also stated that he believed the" American expedition would have an. equal chance of reaching the South. Pole. A private cable from the Governor of Fiji states that lie I'ear.s that the liurricano has had serious, effects, although it is "not likely to retard the prosperity of Fiji. M. Kukh.off., in his presidential address to the Duma, declared that constitutional monarchy did not, and could not, imply Parliamentary government in the English sense m Russia at the present day. He foreshadowed Bills systematizing national defence and co-ordinating national education.

Crabtree succumbed to hi« injuries received in the explosion at Ftzroy (Melbourne )on March 19 ; w'lien four Shops were wrecked.

The steel three-masted steamer Loodana, which has been miesingsince she Ift Mauritius for Colombo on January 10,' is ashore on Cosmoledo Island (in the Indian Ocean). She carried ten Europeans and 70 other passengers, also a cargo valued at £63,000. Search ' efforts had hitherto proved fruitless. J

The Howaldt Works at Kiel (Germany) have contracted to build the first of three battleships of the 1910 programme.

The French Senate has passed a Bill providing for the exclusion, of criminal convicts from the home army. Mr Roosevelt received 400 Americans at Cairo, and later had lunch with the Khedive.

One hundred and fifty peasants at Ardatoff (a Russian town of 6000 inhabitants) died after eating bad iis'li bought from an itinerant salesman.

The United States Atlantic battleship Jieet will visit the Mediterranean in November, and thence proceed to Cuba.

Tli Commercial Travellers' Conference at Melbourne resolved that hotelkeepers receiving the association's certificate should be asked not to take in as permanent boarders persons suffering from tuberculosis.

It is officially estiated that the Narrabri (N.S.W.j floods in January last caused a loss of 25,000 sheep awl two or throe hundred large stock. Sixty-five men of the Australian Naval Brigade have sailed to bring out the destroyers Tor the Australian unit of the British fleet.

The Social Democratic Conference at Canning Town, U.S.A., by a largo majority, resolved that members oi the party should join trade unions in order to conduct a vigorous Socialistic campaign. The conference advocates the amalgamation of all unions on the basis of class, not craft. An amended treaty has boen signed, under which Bhutan is to receive ous blind rod thousand rupees annually. She undertakes to follow British advice in connection with external relations. Bhutan is a small independent State in the Eastern Himalayas .

President Tal't welcomed Sir Ernest Sliaokleton at Wliite House, the State residence in Washington. During a. 'boxing match at Brisbane a section of tho densely crowded elevated seats collapsed, and five men were .seriously -hurt.

Messages are still being received over a great distance at Mr Pike's wireless station, near Sydney. His apparatus was tested by, a naval expert with satisfactory results. Mr Pike is anxious for the Federal Government to .put his appliances to a practical test and equip a series of stations. If his overtures to the Government are rejected he p-qposes to take the apparatus to America. Mr Gipps, agent for the HollandAmerican line at New York, who was charged 'with receiving rebates from three different railways, in violation of the law, admitted his offences, and was fined 2000 dollars on each count. A Gallic cemetery has been discovered near Rheims. It contained magnificent vases, bowls, and bracelets between 2000 and 3000 years old.

A prison warder at Venice has alleged that "the Countess Tarnowska offered his (the warder's wife) £1200 sterling to connive at her escape. Queensland defeated Victoria at bowls, winning; the rubber, securing tho deciding game by only one point. Mr Andrew Fisher, Leader of the Federal Labour Party, predicts that Labour at the elections next month will gain at least ten seats in the House of Representatives and a slight increase in the Senate at the ensuing elections.