AUSTRALIAN CABLES.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XL, Issue 7794, 19 March 1904, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN CABLES.

(Per Press Association —Copyright)

Received March 19, 9.37 a.m

SYDNEY, Marrh 19

The Daily Telegraph, in discussing the possible result of ■ the Navigation Bill, says - —"' '.Sow Zealand' has from time to Time made bids, for mail steamers to maVoa Wellington or Lyttelton their ports ol destination and it is quite certain a large of well-paying cargo co.uld be secured at Kcw Zealand parts until the fsnd of January. Next year they are ■bound to call at Adelaide,' tout afterwards might select A'delafcle or | Melbourne as it suited them, calling at Erenmntle en route, and then run straight across to New Zealand. This is not a surmise. The whole question, is unliler consideration and the prospects appeal- to Toe that hundreds of thousands of pounds which were hitherto expended in Sydney may be transferred to New Zealand ports, anj} !-possibly freights and fares advanced while, whether foreign- lines will continue to run under the special disabilities imposed £>v them, is a • point of grave consideration." Received March 19, 10.9 a.m.SYDNEY, March 19. The Federal Postmaster-General lias declared that the Beakin Ministry woiild not be- found wanting in liackjbone over the Arbitration Bill. If an attempt is made to extend the Bill to public servants is successful they would have a veritable Frankenstein' and regret for ever the introduction of such a mischievous proposal. MELBOURNE, March, 19. A recount of the disputed Jliv-er-ina votes gives Chanter a majority of 57. The High Court has to give a final decision. A tragedy is reported from Whit-" tlesoa. William Oats, a labourer) quarrelled with his wife at the dinner table and almost severed I her head with a carving knife. He then committed suicide. The quail- -\ rel arose over the wife's threat to leave owing to the husband's cotv ! tinuefl brutality. ' ADELAIDE, March 19. Several cases of virulent swfne fever are reported: < from Mount Gambier.