GENERAL CABLES.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LIII, Issue 9305, 22 March 1907, Page 8

GENERAL CABLES.

LOCAL GOVERNMENT OF LONDON

[PRESS ASSOCIATION.] (Received March 22, 8.3 a.m.) LONDON, March 21.

In the House of Commons Will Crbokes.' motion that the inequality a? rates in different portions of London required the early attention of Parliament was agreed t*>.

Dr Macnamara, Minister of Education, decSared that the matter must be considered in connection with the whole question of local government.

ARCTIC EXPLORATION.

NEW YORK, March 21.

Nikkelsen's Anglo- Air erican Polar expedition, in tihe schooner Duchess of Bedfcid, is frozen up 200 miles off Port Barrow, Alaska. Preparations ate being completed to explore unknown dbunfcry to the north. There are indications of one large island .iot distant from the mainland.