Beyond The Dominion

King Country Chronicle, Volume III, Issue 180, 9 August 1909, Page 3

Beyond The Dominion

FROZEN MEAT TRADE. The Chamber of Commerce has adopted its section committee's report in favour of improving the conditions of handling frozen meat and also inquiry into the methods employed in dealing with the meat after it reaches London. PROTECTING FOOTBALL UMPIRES. Sydney, August 5. In the House of Assembly, Mr Fitzpatrick, referring to rowdyism at Saturday's football matches, asked the Chief Secretary if he would see that in future, as fars as umpires are concerned, they are provided with protection in the shape of coats of mail or police protection. The reply was a promise of adequate police protection. BRITAIN'S NAVAL ESTIMATES. London, August 4. Both the Lords and the Commons agreed to the Naval Etimates with out division. During the course of a desultory debate in the House of Commons, Mr A. H. Lee condemned the failure of the Government to provide sufficient up-to-date destroyers. When existing programmes were complete, he said, Britain would have 84 against Germany's 72, a proportion which was ludicrously insufficient. Discussion on the report stage*; of the naval, military and civil service votes was ended by the application of the closure, votes totalling 75 millions being passed during the sitting. CHEAP CABLES. London, August 5. Sir Joseph Ward, interviewed, favoured a reduction in cable charges by stages, as giving confidence to administrator to gradually lower the charges.

Personally he considered reduction one of the most pressing questions of the day. He disliked anything that might be unfair to the cable owners, but it was most regrettable tnat people of the great growing oversea dominions should be kept in a position of isolation through inability to use the cables, which are so much unoccupied. He strongly favoured State-owned cables between the Motherland and her dominions, and was hopeful that existing conditonsi would not last much longer.

He also entirely favoured an All-red or All-British steam service. He recognised that many difficulties existed, adding /'but the more you reduce distances and give the people of the Motherland and her new countries the opportunity of meeting, the greater becomes the tendency to do business mutually."

Sir Joseph added that be had no desire to reflect on the management of the cable companies, but in his opinion, the cable services ought to be Stateowned.

WRECK OF THE MAORI. London, August 5

The Shaw, Savill and Albion Company's well known liner Maori, which has been engaged in the London and New Zealand trade for many years, has been totally wrecked on the Duyka Point, near Capetown, while on the voyage from London to Lyttelton and Dunedin, with a cargo of general.merchandise for those ports. The Maori left London on July 9 for New Zealand, via Capetown ai.d Launceston, under the command of Captain Nicoll, and on Wednesday, July 21. she called at her first port, Capetown, to replenish her ccai bunkers. She left Capetown :r. continuation of her voyage that day, and soon alter leaving ran ashore at Duyna Point. She had no ! assengors aboard at the time. Lloyds' rer.ort that the vessel has broken up, art: that too .igrter portion of the cargo is adoat. Reuters Capetown Agency advises that as far as is at r resent known, two of those aboard the Maori were drownThe Maori had ■- 010 tons of cargo for Dunedin. and 4ot> for Lyttelton. charging in the Dominion, she was to haw- gone to Beauty Point, Tasthorougniy reliable navigator. Ke the Tainui. in contntanci of the Maori. £OO,OOO. BARCELONA RIOTS. Router's ami other correspondents report iieree lighting on .ju.ytio between the police and revolutionists outside Barcelona. The Marist Moratory ordered a stout resistance, and tnree monks were and petroleum, and rusheci from church Mext afternoon they sacked a number ing of a convent at San Jeronimo the tied rones to the embalmed bodies of nuns and dragged them through the streets. There are now 25,000 soldiers in Barcelona.