GENERAL CABLES.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1717, 25 January 1905, Page 21

GENERAL CABLES.

LONDON, January 17. The war or rates between the Atlantic shipping combinations cost tho companies half a million sterling. Tho result is regarded as a victory for the Cunard line, which retains the Hungarian emigrant traffic, worth a hundred thousand per annum. LiONDON, January 17. Admiral Sir J. C. Hay, in a letter to •'■The Times,” emphasises the increase in the number of mutiny cases on merchantmen. which lie declares is attributable to the crews consisting of a large proportion of foreigners. The newspapers urge the necessity of improved conditions in the merchant service to attract British-born seamen. LONDON, January 17. Lord Kitchener, Commander-in-Chief in India, at the instance of the War Office, is trying to re-equip the Indian artillery by June. LONDON, January IS. An enormous mass of rock fell, into Leonvand Lake, Bergen, causing a wave 20ft high to sweep the neighbourhood. Fifty-nine persons were drowned. LONDON, January 19. Henry Robert Jones, a solicitor, has been sentenced to eighteen months’ imprisonment for swindling the Clapham poor-law guardians by means of fraudulent bills. Germany, America, and another Power are trying to purchase the privately-owned and uninhabited Cano Islets, belonging to the Azores Group, as a coaling or Marconi station. LONDON, January 20. Mr 11. H. Asquith, speaking at Reading, said the alien scare was claptrap and rhodomontade. The outcry for the expulsion of aliens was protection in disguised form. If the power to deport criminal aliens was strictly enforced, and they had sanitary and factory laws, that should meet the difficulty. BERLIN, January 19. General von Trotha, Commander of the German forces operating against the rebels in South-West Africa, states that Ma Herero, the chief Borero leader, has submitted, and that the rebels are exhausted. BERLIN, January 20. It is intended to greatly extend the German Imperial naval yards at Wilhelmshaven, Kiel, and Dantzig, more than doubling the number of men now employed. VIENNA, January 18. Members of the Hungarian Clerical party thrashed and dangerously injured a number of Liberal candidates.

BELGRADE, January 18.

A revolution in Servia is threatened against the domination of the regicides of the late King and Queen. ting Peter’s dynasty is menaced. CAPETOWN, January 19.

The Government mining engineer on the Rand states that the native labour supply is most” unsatisfactory, and the employment of Europeans as stopgaps in the mines has disorganised the general work.

The sum of six millions was paid in salaries and wages during the year ended June, of which £4,794,000 was paid for white labour. NEW YORK, January 19.

The relations between Venezuela and the United States were very strained until President Castro consented to submit to arbitration the disputed claims of the United States, although refusing to accept a permanent arbitration treaty. OTTAWA, January 18.

Canada io willing to vote £IO,OOO by way of subsidy if the AustralianVancouver steamers call at New Zealand.

In the course of a speech, the retiring Governor-General, Lord Minto, said Canadian statesmen would meet the British delegates at the Colonial Conference with open arms. If Canada received only a bucket of cold water she was justified in reciprocating with tho United States.