CABLE NEWS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 9360, 8 November 1910, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

GETTING BEHIND A MONOPOLY. ?Bs Electric Telegraph—Copyright.! (Pee Press Association/! PARIS, Nov, 7. Madame Levilliau lias been fined £640 for manufacturing cigars and cigarettes from cocoa husks, thus contravening the State tobacco monopoly. It is stated that three and a half million of these cigarettes have been annually placed on the market. AUSTRALASIA'S GUESTS ON TOUR. CAPETOWN, Nov. 7. The Hon. Mr Fisher, Federal Premier, and the Hon. Mr Fowlds, New Zealand Minister for Education, _ have started for Ivimberley. They will afterwards visit the Victoria Falls on the Zambesi, Bulawayo, Johannesburg, Lourinco Marques, Maritzburg, Bloemfontein, Grahamstown and Port Elizabeth, returning to Capetown on December 4. AN AVIATOR'S WELCOME. PARIS,. Nov. 7. After Willows, the aviator, had alighted at Douai after his flight across the English Channel, the Customs officers seized his dirigible balloon for payment of £30 for duty on petrol. AMERICA AND GERMANY. BERLIN, Nov. 7. In connection with the alleged wrong inflicted on Americans by the retroactive German tax on potash, which it is feared will bring about a trade war, the American delegates have submitted a proposal to a German syndicate whereby the loss due to the super contingent tax shall be halved between American and German interests, the Americans thus penalising themselves voluntarily to the extent of fourteen million dollars. The president of the syndicate rejected the proposals and the delegates are returning to Washington. KING MAY VISIT OVERSEAS DOMINIONS. CAPETOWN, Nov. 7. The Duke of Connaught's speech at the opening of the Union Parliament, expressing King George's regret at his inability to visit South Africa, has evoked attention throughout South Africa. The newspapers unanimously acclaim the prospect of the King and Qtfeen visiting South Africa at no distant date, together with the principal centres of the Empire.