GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 15025, 21 June 1912, Page 8

GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

— ■ : ::i '■ < " FROM AIJSTBAJiIAIT PAPERS* V. ■ '$|f§ :'V ' ■•' — • BOAT DRILL ON MAXLBOATSt : At the inquiry into the foundering of th«* P. and 0. liner Oceana Mr. Bateson, counsel ; J, for tho Board of Trade, remarked that the *- P. and O. superintendent's inspection of ! the boat drill on tho company's v©B?els> prior I to their departure from Tilbury Docks ap« ,•;? poared to bo a very formal' affair. The superintendent insisted that the lascar sailors .; < wore all right by themselves, but ho agreed . V that they would be better under the leader* chip of white seamen. DEVELOPING TIBET. President Yuan-shih-kai and General Ij* Yuen Hong haw mapped out a programme for developing Tibet as soon as the presonfo . rebellion there has been suppressed. Tho ' first step will be to transform tlio country , from a semi-independent dependency into a "? '■ province similar to other Chinese provinces. Yuan-shih-kai thinks that the Tibetan* will resent this, but he believes that it will bo better for the country. The change can most conveniently be effected after the rebellion is completely quelled,, and the > firsH move will bo tho construction, of a railway ; from Szcchuen eastward across Tibet. WHITE SLAVE TRAFFIC. ! I The German Government is determined td put an end to the white slave traflio. On« v means by which it hopes to accomplish itav,-.-object will bo by promising promotion and money rewards to those employees at rail- { way stations who discover and intercept *;!, • girls that are being sent out of tho countrj |,;