GENERAL CABLES.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LIII, Issue 9305, 22 March 1907, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES.

A DISABLED STEAMER. [press association.] SYDNEY, March 21. The steamer Golac, from Townsville, broke iher tail shaft during the gade off the north, of Solitary leland on Monday night. She was picked up by the City of Graiton imext day, and towed to Newcastle to-day. PENNY POSTAGE. MELBOURNE, March 21. The Penny Postage Bill will be proposed in the Federal Parliament next session. NEW ZEALAND MAILS. (Received March 22, 8.40 a.m.) LONDON, March 21. The Post Office notifies that the mails for New Zealand for the present will only be despatched via Suez. SUEZ CANAL BLOCKED. PORT SAID, March 21. i The Dutch liner Bindgani got badly ashore at Eabar and blocked the Suez Canal for a day. It iis .now clear. WOOL SALES. LONDON, March 21. The wool sales included the fleece portions of the following clips : Taoroa 13d, Ellerslie 15d. FLOGGING IN THE AKMY. LONDON, March 21. | The all-night sitting of ihe Commons continues, discussing the proposal that flogging and all corporal punishment in. the Army should be abolished. PARLIAMENTARY PROCEDURE. (Received March 22, 8.23 a,m.) I LONDON, March 21. S ; r H. Campbell-Bannerman will propose tba f in tho Horse \A Commons all Bills, with few exceptions, after their second readings, be automatically referred to some of the Standing Committees. EXTENDING IRRIGATION IN EGYPT. CAIRO, March 21. With a view of the irrigation of 1£ times greater area than at present, it is 1 pioposed to add 19£ feet to the height of the Assouan dam in Egypt, at a cost 'of a million and a half. It is feared that the temples of Phffloe will be completely submerged.