From the Cables.

Manawatu Times, Volume LXV, Issue 2026, 16 September 1913, Page 2

From the Cables.

THE WORLD'S WHEAT. LONDON, yesterday. At the British Association Professor Dixon said it was clear that the available proportion of the world's wheat supply from its extensive sources had been reached, and we must depend in future upon intensive farming, with its greater demands for labour. Two hundred and forty-two million acres at present under wheat might be increased to 300,000,000. Thus the earth might finally be able to feed permanently a thousand million wheat eaters. Intensive cultivation would cause greater equalisation in the distribution of the population. FROM NEWSBOY TO CONGRESS. NEW YORK, yesterday. Timothy Sullivan, a noted politician, who rose from a newsboy to a Congress man, when ill eluded his nurses and was found dead on the railway at Pelham Park. He lay for 13 days at the morgue before he was identified. Sullivan was a partner in one of the largest theatrical circuits of the world. HAD ENOUGH. LONDON, yesterday. Aird and Company have decided to close down when their existing contracts are completed.

DISAPPOINTING, NO DOUBT. BERLIN, yesterday. Owing to the continued indisposition of the Kaiser's daughter she will be unable to attend the Duchess of Fife's wedding. PROFESSIONALS' PRICES. LONDON, yesterday. The football season opened with fine prospects. There will be a larger number of thousand pounds men than ever. Clubs are paying even more for firstclass new talent. MELBOURNE, yesterday. The Richmond honorary Magistrates have passed a. resolution that they view as disloyal the utterance of the Mayor, Mr Gordon Webber, who in explaining why he had omitted the loyal toast at a function he gave vo mark his election to the Mayoralty said: "I omitted it because I considered it to be superfluous Personally, I am a Republican. The King is only a figurehead, and as much he is recognised. In saying this I do not consider I am not loyal." The •LP's, refuse to occupy the Bench with Mr Webber. SYDNEY, to-day. The wharf labourers' strike is unchanged, and has not extended yet, though it is reported it has been threatened to apply it to the Ulimaroa, arriving from New Zealand to-morrow. The second division of the British Parliamentarians has gone to Victoria. The opinion of Mr Stephen Collins, Liberal member for the Kensington Division of Lambeth, is that Australia is a paradise for people desiring to go on the land. There may be a few poor in the big cities, but in the country there was no poverty at all. What was wanted was more men.