CABLE BRIEFS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 9361, 9 November 1910, Page 7

CABLE BRIEFS.

Mrs Despard has opened a Suffrage week at Caxton Hall. The wreck of the Kurdistan represents a loss in the insurance market of a quarter of a million. "■ The total, value of naval establishment at Sydney under the Imperial Government is £630,399. There were twenty feet of water in the Pressuen's forehold. Efforts will be made , to refloat her to-day. The Red River is frozen exceptionally early, and steamers are ice-bound at various points, in Lake Winnipeg. King George had an audience with Sir George Reid, and also received Mr Bertram MacKennal, A.R.A., the noted Australian sculptor. Mr George Wyndham at Manchester, and Mr Austen Chamberlain at Wigan, have inaugurated a great tariff reform campaign in Lancashire. The General Committee of the Mansion House has opened a. fund for a statue of King Edward costing from £50,000 to £70,000. i The reciprocity conference between i Canada and the TJnited States pro- j ceeds slowly. Critics declare the con- I ference is merely a political move on , the part of Sir Wilfrid Laurier and i President Taft to satisfy the clamourous demands'of a section of their followers. Canadian manufacturers are imnatient at "the slowness of the procedure. / • ,' , u , The cruiser Rainbow, bought from the • Admiralty by Canada, has arriveri at Victoria, , 8.C.. and has been officially taken over-by the Canadian Government. She is the first Canadian warship in the Pacific. To-day

the Admiralty naval base at Esquimalt becomes the Dominion ,^.

A huge congregation attended at Saint James? (Sydney), for the memorial service to Admiral Sir Harry Rawson. The vice-regal Party and members of the Government attended.

Mr Garvin, Inspector-General of N.S.W. Police, has resigned. Before the Federal Arbitration Court, the President of the Merchant Service Guild stated that members were afraid of losing their positions if they gave evidence. In the last case before the Court, out of fourteen witnesses called by the Guilds seven were subsequently put off, himself included. He refused to give the names for fear of further intimidation. His Honor said he was unable to attach much importance to the statement. Admiral Henderson has returned to Sydney from the North. Discussing Australia's new destroyers, he said they were very good boats for the work required of them. On the second reading of the Postal Rates Bill in the Federal Parliament; all parties generally favourably received the measure. Mr Cook, while agreeing with the penny "postage, deplored the fact that the telephone had been made a luxury.