GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Mataura Ensign, 2 July 1914, Page 5

GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

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IMMIGRATION REGULATIONS,

11 ILEOTEIO TELBGBAPH OOPTEIBHI. PEE UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION. Received Julv 2, 11.5 a.im. LONDON, July 1.

Before the Dominions Commission D«. Morris said the Commonwealth's immigration regulations were not intended to be restrictive but to make medical examination .more humane and more consistent than, previously. He had appointed 15,000 medical referees in England to issue 'certificates' to emigrants.

INCOMES ACQUIRED ABROAD,

Received July 2, 11.5 a.m. LONDON, July 1

A deputation of Anglo-colonials asked Hon. T. Mackenzie (New Zealand High Commissioner) to take some action in regard to clause 5 of the Finan.ee Bill, which provides that residents of the United Kingdom! shall pay income tax on incomes acquired ahroad. whether they are remitted Home or not. Mr Mackenzie consulted' the Canadian and South African representatives' find the Australian agents, and will probably discuss the matter with the Imperial authorities.

FRENCH & SIBERIAN RAILWAY,

ST. PETERSBURG, July 1

A French group has secured a concession for the South Siberian trunk line of 1300 miles, costing £16,000,000.

SIBERIAN FARMERS IN ENGLAND

LONDON, Juno 30,

Thirty Siberian peasant farmers representing the butter trade have arrived to study British agricultural methods and the co-operative, system.

HEAT IN LONDON

Received July 2, 8.55 a.m. LONDON, July 1. The temperature in London is 88 degrees.

SIX PERSONS INJURED

v NEW YORK, June 30. One shot.wounded six persons seated 'on the observation platform of an eastbound Burlington train at Kansas City. According to a man who admitted that he fired the shot, it 'was in honor of • a woman seated on. thft platform. He had no intention of injuring anyone, and fired into the air.

BRITISH FfEVENUE

LONDON, July 1

Great Britain's revenue for the quarter just ended was • £40,500,677, the chief it-eras being:—Customs, £8,573,000; excise, £8,530,000; stamps, £2,096,000.

SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERY,

PARTS, July 1

. Professor .Knimerlinge Onnos, of Leyden, .was experimenting in low temperatures when he .discovered that a coil af fine lead wire, normally offering a resistance of 736 ohms to an electric current, did not offer resistance when- the wire Was plunged' into liquefied helium, and that the current introduced into the lead by induction persisted for many hours without diminution.

HINDUS AND CANADA

VANCOUVER, June 30.

Inasmuch as it is especially provided that officers of military audi naval forces, their wives and families, are not to be considered- immigrants applying for admission to Canada, roused for the Immigration Department in the Komagata Ma.ru case argued 'that it was' thereby assumed that British snlbjects' were to bo considered immigrants. The same section stated that on. retiring from their official functions officers were to be considered subject to the clauses cif the Immigration, Act. If nowhere else, it was clear that in Canada they had the right to e.wlude British subjects of other dominions. During the morning 71 volumes of law ibooksi were laid out on the lawyers' table for reference during arguments.

SCHCOLCHILDRENS AMUSEMENT

BY ELECTRIC TELfcaRAPH COPYRIGHT, TIMES AND SYDNEY SON SERVICES.

PARIS, June 30.

The Municipal l Council intends to provide games and amusements for schoolchildren during the holidays to save them from the dangers <rf the streets, which are their usual playgrounds.