GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLVII, Issue XLVII, 19 April 1912, Page 7

GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

(From Australian Papers.)

PANAMA CANAL

The New York Chanter of Commerce has passed- a resolution protesting against the proposed legislation to prohibit the u«e of the Panama Canal by a steamship company in which any of the railroad companies are interested. The resolution declares that the canal should be open to all slapping, irrespective of ownership. AMERICAN AVIATOR'S TOUR. The well-known American aviator, Mr Atwater, with his wife. has left San Francisco for the Orient. He is taking with him two hydroplanes and a biplane. Mr Atwater contemplates making flights in China and the Philippines, and possibly in Australia.

FLYNN WILL MEET JOHNSON. . Jack Curlev, manager for Jim Flynri. is conferring with the business people of Los Vegas with reference to staging the ficht between Flynn and Jack Johnson in that town next July. In reply to the assertion that the Pueblo fireman and hi? manager are not sincere in their desire to promote the contest, Curley states that the bout will positively take place in July unless Johnson forfeits. CANADA AND THE.STATES. Responding to one of the toasts at the Harvard Club, at Seattle, Sir Charles Hibbert- Tupper( a former Canadian Cabinet Minister) said : —"As American north of the line our interests are yours, and, we shall have the same point of view. But we shall cling to our goods, to onr idea of a free democracy under 'f.he best limited monarchy on earth,-as you will to your ideals of the freest Republican Government on earth. Instead of growing farther apart, we shall come closer and closer together, each recognising the ideals of the other, o.ur aims for the betterment of mankind. ancL above all, for tin* peace of the world."

ENGLAND AND GERMANY:

The Berlin correspondent- of the United Press Association savs that, since t'he failure of the British Government to disclose any tangible results arising out of Lord Ha"Mane's visit to Germany. Court gossips have been busy with a' theory that the journey had something to do with the possibility of a betrothal between the Prince of Wales and the Princess Victoria Louisa of -eGrmany. There is hardly a responsible statesman or a close observer of affairs in either England or Germany whi will now deny that he considers that war is a probability unless some form of rapprochement is effected in the near future. The marriage altar might afford the desired solution oi the difficulty. Louisa is the only European Princess worthy the notice of the British 'Court, and the Prince of Wales the only Prince of sufficient importance to aspire to the hand- of the Kaiser's only daughter. It is whispered, however that the Prince of Wales is not overjoyed at the prospect of marrying his Imperial second cousin.

WIRELES OPERATORS. It has been decided that all the male operators in the wireless stations controlled by the Northern Pacific Wireless Company, both on sea and'on land, shall be supplanted bv women. It is said that they are more to be depended upon than the nien. The first two are no%v being trained by the company's chief operator.