CABLE MEWS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XL, Issue 7190, 7 January 1902, Page 4

CABLE MEWS.

(Per Press Association.)

London, January- 5,

STATE-OWNED CABXlfs.

Keuter s Agency states tLat Sir Sandlord Jilemmg, the emine.'u engineer, in a kttor to the lion. W.3luloeL° Canadian I 1 ostmasacr-JSyuerjii, advocates State--1 CVwied Atlantic cable and land lines through Canada, on the jtfarconi wireloss system. He estimates the revenue of the cable at a rate of a penny a word at £40,000 sterling, and tho cost at about i-.£330,000.

[In lSil!) there were 33,071. miles oE telegraph lines in Canada, 21)90 belonging to the Government. There were 81,260 miles of wire, with 2823 offices, and the number of messages sent, as nearly as could be ascertained, was •1,830,501.]

WEST AUSTKALLi

Pi:nTir, January G. The gold yield for the year amounts to 1,881,7500z., being :iUo,ooooz. above the previous year, and 237,000 above the Stale's record.

In the Ministerial re-elections Dr. Jamieson (Commissioner of Crown Lands), the Hon. H. Gregory (Minister for Minos), and the Hon. F. Illim<worth (Colonial Treasurer) have been returned unopposed.

ROYAL GIF! 1 TO THE ARMY,

Lonbox, January 5. The Quoen sent a Christmas sift and a sympathetic letter to tho Salva ion Army poor.

OIL FUEL IN WARSHIPS

Tho Admiralty is making tests of oil fuol in two battleships arid a cruiser belonging to the Chunnol Squadron.

ABERDEEN UNIVERSITY.

_Tho Right Hon. Lord Strathcona, High Commissioner for Canada in London, has given £25,000 towards the extension of Aberdeen University.

FOREIGN ORDERS IN LONDON,

Tho Marquis of Salisbury, replying to a communication from the Protestant Alliance, stated that tin Government did not intend to legislate against the alleged Jesuit invasion of England.

NEW CALEDONIA.

Paius, January 5. A reduction han been made in the subsidy to tho French colony of New Caledonia from 660,000 francs (£26,400) to 500,000 francs (£20,000).

SUPPLIES FOR THE ARMY.

BvD.Njjy, January G. la connection with tho opening of tenders in London for a year's supplies for tho army in South Africa, the I''edoml Premier (Mr Barion) communicated with Mr Chamberlain with a yiow to Australian interests receiving consideration. Ho pointod out that tho Imperial Government would be much bettor served by Australian contractors direct than by gottfug whut purported to be Australian produce second-hand.