VARIOUS CABLED ITEMS

Greymouth Evening Star, 23 March 1911, Page 5

VARIOUS CABLED ITEMS

| [PUB PBJCBB ASBOCUTION^-WPTmiQHT.^ ‘RIG LONDON t. EXHIBITION PRO- : 'POSED, -i ; ' *■ w MELBOURNE, March, 22—Tho Federal High Commissioner, Sir George Reid, has informed the Hon. Mr Batchelor (Federal Minister of Trade) that it is proposed to hold a great International Exhibition in London in the year 1915, when the Imperial Conference meets again, and that a strong Advisory Committee has been formed, with Lord Strathcona. as President. the Potato blight. SYDNEY, March, 22.—There are gloomy reports of the rapid spread of the* potato blight in many districts in New South Wales.

THE NATIVE REBELLION.. , . i.. ; SYDNEY, March, 22. Advices by the island steamer show that the native trouble in Santos is the outcome of a long standing quarrel between the coast and inland natives. Numbers have, been killed oft both sides A punitive expedition has arrived and departed for the seat of the trouble, and is expected to soon quell it.

SIR M. McEACHERN’S ESTATE. MELBOURNE, March, estate of the late Sir Malcolm McEachern has been valued for probate at £200,500, whereof £150,000, in. Victoria, is left to his family, while his Scottish estate is settled on his widow. Sir M. McEachern bequeathed to each clerk in the employ of tho shipping firm of Mcllwrath, McEarcharn, and Co., who at the time of his (McEachran’s) death was receiving a salary of less than three hundred a legacy of ten per cent, on that amount, and to those receiving over three hundred and under five hundred a legacy of five percent thereof.

QUEENSLAND CYCLONE DAMAGE. BRISBANE, Mrch, 22.—The farmers in the Mossman district estimate their losses by the recent cyclone at £20,000.

GERMAN ENTERPRISE IN NEW GUINEA. SYDNEY, March, 22.—Mr. Forsayth the last of the British traders in German New Guinea, has disposed of his property of sixty thousand acres to a Hamburg company. The whole of the copra trade of German New Guinea is now in German hands. THE HAREM SKIRT. r ADELAIDE, March, 22. The police to-day had to move a largo crowd who were blocking a street in the city in front of a leading firm’s window, where there were two masked ladies appearing in the harem skirt. THE POTATO BLIGHT. SYDNEY, This Day.—The whole potato crop from Sydney to the Victorian border is suffering from blight. THE SQUADRON FLAGSHIP. SYDNEY, This Day.—The Drake replaces the Powerful as flagship. ALL-AUSTRALIAN EXHIBITIONS. NEWCASTLE, This Day.—The Manufacturers’ Conference decided in favour of a series of all-Australian exhibitions in the capital cities in rotation, the first to be held at Melbourne in 1913; also to hold an Australian manufacturers’ week simultaneously thoughout the Commonwealth. THE ECLIPSE OF THE SUN. Received this day at 10.20 a.m. SYDNEY, This Day.—An advance party of the Solar Eclipse expedition were passengers by the Maheno. The balance leave by the Tofua on Tuesday. H.M.S. Encounter, leaving Sydney on Saturday conveys the English expeditions to Vavau. THE CENSUS. SYDNEY, This Day.—The exodus to the Coronation will have a marked effect on the census. In New South Wales alone it means the loss of sev eral thousand names from the rolls. LOCAL GOODS. SYDNEY, This Day.—At the Master Tanners’ picnic, complaint was made at the blind prejudice against locally made goods, especially boots and shoes. THE NORTHERN TERRITORY. MELBOURNE, This Day.— Royal assent has been granted to the Northern' Territory Acceptance Bill, t TIMBER WORKERS STRIKE. MELBOURNE, This Day.—The compulsory conference in the -timber trade trouble proved abortive as the employers declined to budge on the question of employment of non-unionists. i PLENTY OFBANANAS. MELBOURNE, This Day.— Owing to the heavy banana crop in Fiji, arrangements have been made for the Manapouri to resume a direct service from Fiji to Melbourne on May 2nd.

TWO MEN ARRESTED. BRISBANE, This Day.—Two men, alleged to be the Mount Cuthbert highwaymen were arrested at Donaldson while sleeping. ] ALLEGED CONSPIRACY. PERTH, This Day.—The prosecution in the Chaffinch, case is seeking to establish whether there is any truth in-,rumours that samples, taken from the property had been “salted.” MANUFACTURERS’ CONFERENCE. LAUNCESTON, This Day.—Resolutions were adopted by the manufacturers, conference in favour of a thoroughly protective tariff, adequate preference for locally made goods, a non-political permanent tariff board, preservation of national forest, and prohibition of dangerous and indecent drugs. Another resolution urged the Commonwealth Government to support preference to British goods carried in Brit-; ish ships, with a suggestion that the subject be raised by the Australian representatives at the Imperial Conference.