CABLE NEWS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 8541, 23 March 1908, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

(By Electrio Telegraph—Copyright.) Per Press Association. , LONDON, March 22. Baron Lorcburn, Chancellor of the Exchequer, has introduced a Bill providing a year's imprisonment for the disclosure of State secrets. Sir George Livesay, chairman of the London Gas Company, in a leaflet to the Pckham electors, states that the Minors' Eight Hours Bill caused a loss of £271,500 a year to the South Metropolitan Gas Company alone. Mr Justice Eve, declining to disturb owners' titles eighty years back, refused an application of the claimant for the Page estates, covering nearly half Middlesex, for the appointment of a receiver and manager. An ethergraphic system is being installed at the Admiralty buildings, London, which will enable the First Lord to communicate with the naval ports and with warships at sea. The Daily Telegraph strongly protested against Canada's restrictive regulation in excluding emigrants whose passages are paid wholly or partly by charitable organisations. Such a policy is bound to influence some democracies' view of the greatest self-governing State. ADEN, March 22. The German-Australian liner Laeiscz, bound from Sydney to Hamburg, struck a rock and foundered in the Red Sea. The crew took to the boats and were rescued and landed at Aden. They state that after the captain set the course and retired tho officers misunderstood the course, and the vessel struck a rock in latitude 22 degrees north, longitude 35.