CABLE NEWS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XL, Issue 7902, 30 July 1904, Page 7

CABLE NEWS.

(Per Press Association—Copyright) LONDON, July 29. The Finance Bill was read a third time in the House of Commons, by 206 to 129. The Hon. T. Eitchie does not contest the Crovdon scat ao-ain. BERLIN ° July 29. Nine German subjects of- the lower classes have been tried at Konigsberg for political acts against Russia, leso majeste against the : Czar. by "circulating seditious literature. The evidence supplied damning disclosures, with regard to the Russian' administrative tyranny and cruelty. The Court he'd there was no legal basis ' for the charges of sedition, and dismissed the major indictment) but condemned the six to shorb terms of imprisonment for illegal asisociations. General delight is oxpressed in Germany and Austria, where Count yon. Bulow is u-ijely accused of kowtowing. 'to-Hussia. MELBOURNE, July 29. ' Attention was called to Mr M:yn!.f« strictures in the Federal House, and Mr McDonald (Queensland). interjected- "Bah! Wyatit's .a, paid agitator ; a disturber of the.peace." .Mv Pago (Queensland) :" 110 is a lying scoundrel." Mr Watson, replying, said that Wyatt's sta'temeuts were absolutely ridiculous and .untrue as jar as the Ministry was concerned, but it was true that the Labour leaders of the various States refused to Have ar.y- ---■ tiringl to do with ai faddist like Wyatt. As to ai 'desire..for separation, there was "not -the . slip-litest evidence that siich had car." been shown by the Labour movement in Australia. ■ ; SYDNEY, -July.-29. The President of the Chamber of Commerce,, in his annual address, in referring to preferential trade,, said his own conception of it was that it 1 was ewitraiy to the interests of the I Commonwealth. He d.d not believe it would . ever be accepted by the Australian people. Dealing, with arbitration, lie declared' the legislative, annals had been debased >by the Arbitration Act, whMi, besides permitting-, in a legalised form; tho. grossest interference with the right of men to manage.their own business, had given effect to a selfish passion for; individual, aggrandisement and assisted'in the conversion of trade organisations into a. political force. The labouring community having professed a desire that all should start equal have succeeded in obtaining legislation wliich created the greatest inequality and injustice.' Honest and capable men who, either from an independent spirit or lack of financial means, ■continue outside the ranks of unionism wore ■ deprived of the right to work at all, -. and the punishment falls on those who employ them.