CABLE NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume V, Issue 1254, 6 August 1910, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

SKfiTiStt AND FfSREBGN.

(BY ELECTRIC TELEGiJAPn —COPYRIGHT.}* eaa. pebbb abbooiation TIBETAN AFFAIRS. London, August 5. The newspapers criticise the Tibetan policy of leaving the Chinese to re-establish the Dominion, while Russia and Britain mutually agreed not to interfere. Colonel Younghusband, in an article in the Times, advises Britain to approach Russia. Tibetan traders ridicule the suggestion that the British Agencies are ■endangered. The "Tibetans' passive resistance is making it difficult for the Chinese to get rations. (Received August 0, 9 a.m.) The Times of India, which is published in Calcutta, deprecates any departure from the Tibetan Treaty, and adds: '"It is.illogical to contend that China should not take measures to make her voice respected in Lhasa." MISLEADING. SCHOOL BOOKS. Mr Coghlan, the Agent-General, has examined forty books dealing with Australian geography in use in London County Council schools, and reports that "the minority of them are misleading and convey a very uilse impression. He considers it almost useless to continue a press campaign to advertise Australia while the school books are so defective. AUSTRALIAN NOTE ISSUE. London, August 5. The Times' financial supplement says its Sydney correspondent condemns the Federal note issue as being partly a whim and partly a desire to borrow without appearing to borrow. Since the banks cannot afford to store notes and gold, it will have the effect of depleting the gold stock, which enabled Australia to ship - £20,000,000 after the 1902 drought. A PRACTICAL MEMORIAL. The Lancashire County Council is investing £10.000 in shares in the British Cotton-growing Association, as a memorial to King Edward. AMBASSADOR IAL CHANGES. Sir G. W. Buchanan, British Minister at The Hague, has been appointed Ambassador to St. Petersburg, and Sir R. S. Paget, Minister at Munich, has been appointed to Belgrade. TURKEY BUYING BATTLESHIPS. Constantinople, August 5. The Government is purchasing, not two, but four German battleships of the Bradenburg class. THE MASSACRE IN SYRIA. It is now officially reported that the party of Druses, the fanatical and warlike mountaineers living in the Hauran district of Syria, wTio made a night attack on three villages, massacred 1000 Christian and Moslem men, women, and children. A punitive expedition is being sent to the district. . THE FARMER IN CANADA. Ottawa, August 5. A mass meeting of farmers of Southern Saskatechewan denounced the manufacturers, who were growing rich at the expense of the producers. If it were wrong for a Conservative Government .to inaugurate Protection, it was doubly wrong for a professed freetrade Premier to perpetuate it, they argued. Sir Wilfred Laurier, replying, reiterated his devotion to freetrade. Protection was a great wrong, and made millions dishonest one with another. It inculcated the vicious principle of expecting value where none was given. (Received August 6, 9 a.m.) DOCKERS' S3MUKE ENDED. L.oiulon, Aiigust 5. Alter a conference which lasted two hours, strikers at the Govan dry dock arranged to continue work, and lock-out notices have now been cancelled. The drillers, however, refuse to resume work until they are paid wa«es which are in arrears. MINERS' FEDERATION. The Miners r Federation has adopted a resolution protesting against the recent legal decisions that Trades Union funds cannot be used for political purposes, aud request that a joint committee of the Trades Union and Parliamentary Labour Party should convene a conference of all organisations, witii a view to joint action to secure an amendment of the law. A RESERVE FUND. The directors of the Hearts of Oak Building Society state that they have a reserve of £3,752,000. and the deficiency only exists if they are called on to pay all claims together—a contingency which is unlikely to arise. .. [A cablegram stated yesterday that the society admitted a debit balance of £157,000.1 THE DUKE OF CONNAJJGHT. The Duke of Connaught has accepted the Presidency of the Colonial Institute. THE TORPEDO FACTORY. The Admiralty has decided on an importaant extension of the 'torpedo factory at Port Matilda, on the Clyde. : SHIPPING ITEMS. Arrived."—Mamari, from LytteltQU ; Merehona, from Auckland, FRANCE'S VINTAGE AFFECTED. Paris August 5. i Rain has devastated the vintage Sin France. At Bordeaux disease has ruined half the crop. Prices are rising in Paris. IN MEMORY OF THE PILGUIM FATHERS. New York, August 5. President Taft formeely dedicated a -monument 347 feet high and costing £1602 in memory of the May Flower pilgrims at Prineetown.