GENERAL CABLES.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XL, Issue 7780, 2 March 1904, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES.

(Per Press Association—Copyright) LONDON, March 1. Ihe Daily News says Mr Buxton, M.I •, calculates that the Budget will show a dclicit.o-f two millions involving an extra penny on- the income tax.

Lord Kosebery, speaking at a Liberal League -dinner in London-, said tile Liberals, as far as great pending questions were concerned were at last united. A general election could no longer 'be delayed, as the Government was , crumbling through its own wcal|:.'ess. Sir Winiam -H-aa-court, M.P., has announced that owing to his uncertain state, ol 'health, he will not seek re-election.

Experts and all parties commend the scheme for •army reform and War Of lice reorganisation propounded by Lord Usher's Committee

PARIS, Maroli 1. Hie Premier, M. Combes, declared in the Chamber of Deputies that the French navy was equal to tho country's defence. His reason for asking for credits was not for the navy but for colonial- defence.

'SYDiNiiIY, March 1. The- Inter-State Federated Employers' Conference lias adopted a resolution that the proposed Commonwealth Conciliation and Arbitration Bill is uncalled for in the present industrial position of Australia, that it will prove unworkable, -and fcii'at it is an encroachment on State rights and a 'breach o£ faith wita the founders of the Australian federatiq.i.

The resolution is to 'bo forwarded to the Commonwealth and fcftato Governments.

The miners at the Rhonda and Northern Extended .collieries having resumed work, intended criminal prosecution against them for refusing to obey the award of the Arbitration Court has been abandoned.

Received March 2, at 10.50 a.m. . T,O,NDON, March 2. The total wheat and flour afloat for the United Kingdom is 3,230,000 quarters, .and for the Continent ±,215,000. The Atlantic shipment totafs-52,000 quarters. MELBOURNE, March 2. The Government have finally decided not to purchase the Tasmaniaiit cable, which the Eastern Extension ■• Company offered for £70,000. The Appeal Board of the League of Wheelmen reduced Lawson's .vuspension to three months from !Kebruary 17th. PERTH, Maroh 2. The watchman' at the Croesus South mine reportd that three men with blackened faces seized, bound, and gagged him during the liisht and stole between £150 and £200 worth of slimes from tihe battery. A peculiar circumstance is that though five other employees were at frne mine only the watchman saw the thieves. SYDNEY, March 2. BurS.ng Uie voyage of the ElverI'aivd from the Thames a seaman attempted to stab the boatswain. The man was placed in irons. He is alleged to be 'demented. A conference of delegates from the coal-miners unions decided to support the miners' strike in Victoria.

Received March 2, at 8.50 a.m. LONDON^ March 1. A Blue Boole, dealing with the, subject, states the majority of -the colonies favour metric weights ai.-d measures. Lord Glasgow has been elected chairman of the New Zealand Fisheries' Company. Lord Frances Hope has m?rried Olive, the younger dau r.ut-r.- cf the late George Thompson, Uuike.- of Melbourne. Mr Austin Ohamterlain anticipates a deficit when he delivers his budget in April. The Daily Mail states that consols were 'dealt in momentarilj at 85i and closed at 85 13-IG. It adds : —Besides the present war having a depressing influence, there are municipal loan's awaiting flotation amounting to thirty millions, besides money required in connection with the London water supply, the Irish Land Bill, and the usual Australian borrowings. The strike of the Dundee engineers has ended by their acceptance in wages of thirtyrone shillings and upwards. (Eeoeived March 2, at S 84 am.) London. March 1. Advices from British Columbia fctatp thst the cruiser Bonavenmra is stranded on the south of the Central American Coast.

Amstkrbam, March 1

A Bill submitted to the Sfcateß General admits raw material for manufacture?, agriculture and agricultural products free, imposes a small duty on partly manufactured, and six to twelve per cent, on rnunul'acfcurfd goods, the highest being on articles of luxury. 'Jho Government asks for power to increase the duties to reta iate for difforenr.ial treatment. It is oypected the tariff will a-.2d one million florini to inn Treasury.