GENERAL CABLES

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1747, 30 August 1905, Page 20

GENERAL CABLES

LONDON, August 23. “The Times” correspondent at Capetown reports that the Supreme Court upholds the contention of the Income Tax Commissioner that De Beers mine is liable to pay income tax profits made by its London syndicate of. diamond buyers. Now that a strike of Lancashire cotton operatives has been averted, an effort is being made to secure permanent regulation of wages in accordance with the state of trade.

LONDON, August 22. Reuter’s Agency reports that the Mercantile Club of Madrid addressed to the Minister of Finance (Senor Osina) a report upon reform of - the Customs tariff and renewal of commercial treaties.

The report urges a return -to freetrade as it existed in 1869, and condemns the policy of protection adopted in 1891, which is declared to be the origin of the labour trouble and the principal cause of the loss of the Antilles and Philippine Islands. The document is much commented on in the press and in political circles. LONDON, August 22.

For widening Piccadilly, near St. James street, the London County Council paid £34 per square foot. The cruiser Pyramus, now refitting, completes her crew shortly for service on the Australian station.

LONDON, August 24. Advices from Buenos Ayres state that the British barque Bidston Hill, bound from Hamburg for San Francisco, foundered in the South Atlantic. The second officer and seventeen of the crew were drowned. The survivors are expected to arrive at Buneos Ayres.LONDON, August 24.

Mr Chamberlain, in tbe course of a letter, declared that it was foolish and inimical to national interests to encourage the officering of British ships by foreigners.

The whole subject of manning the mercantile marine demands, in Mr Chamberlain’s opinion, reconsideration. LONDON, August 25.

The British Consul at Bremerhaven reports that Germany spends £20,000 •annually to encourage sea fishery and trade, with the secondary object of obtaining sailors for her navy. The “Daily Telegraph” says:—Australian officials in London are perturbed at the Premier of Victoria supporting a private bill compelling the recipients of pensions to reside in Victoria. It is feared that ot-h.-r States will imitate this if the bill passes. The Liberals of West Birmingham have selected Mr Outhwaite (formerly of Victoria) to oppose Mr Chamberlain at the general election. The Indian tea season for 1905 is the finest for ten years. Thirty per cent, of the sales from the bond in London averaged Is lb. Mr Alexander Joyce, in the course of a letter in “The Times” in'reply to a recent letter in the same newspaper by Sir Arthur Douglas, formerly Undersecretary of Defence in New Zealand, argues that the harbours of New Zealand are practically defenceless. Preparations are progressing for the establishment of a Royal Academy in South Africa, having twenty - four academicians and eighteen associates. The academy will be affiliated with the Royal Academy at Burlington House, Piccadilly, with Sir William Blake Richmond as president of the South African institution. The headquarters. are to be at Johannesburg. The Salvation Army has sent four thousand people to Canada this year. The Army authorities expect to send ten thousand next year. LONDON, August 25. The Japanese transport Kinjmaru, conveying troops back from tbe fronts collided in the Inland Sea with the Brx£ ish steamer Baralong. The transport sank three minutes after the collision, and 127 troops were drowned. The Baralong has arrived at Kobe. PARIS, August 22. (M, Santos Dumont made a successful trial of his new uirskip at Trouville. It carries a screw in front, and _is drawn by a motor instead of being driven. The airship was manoeuvred with facility and against the wind.

Gallay, a clerk at the Comptoir d’Eseompte in Paris, absconded, taking with him £IOO,OOO. He left Havre on board his own yacht. PARIS, August 23. A wine trust is proposed among the six principal producing provinces in the south of France. The initial capital will be 300,000,000 francs. PARIS, August 25.

Gallay, a clerk at the Comptoir d’Etstcompte, Pari®, who was said to have absconded with £IOO,OOO, has been arrested at Bahia.

BERLIN, August 22. Colonel von Lindeguist’s appointment as Governor of German South-west Africa, in place of Colonel Leutwin, is equivalent to General von TYotha’s supercession. The mortality of the Herero prisoners at Swakowmund concentration camp during February, March, and April equalled 720 per thousand per annum. The German Admiralty has voted £IOOO to entertain the crews of Admiral Wilson’s vessels.

Germany is sonding 150 marines, several quickfirers, and two small cruisers to West Africa.

Since January the Berlin authorities have allowed members of the Salvation Army to march through the streets. Recently twenty thousand attended a meeting on the Templehofer parade ground.

BERLIN, August 24. Germany proposes to raise an additional five million sterling on tobacco. Three millions will be devoted largely to expenditure on the navy. The Kaiser has expressed a wish that the reception of Admiral Wilson’s squadron at Baltic ports shall in every sense he cordial and friendly. The Krupp Company has contracted to supply the Japanese navy with two and a quarter millions’ worth of guns, sheet-iron, and other material. VIENNA, August 25. The Austrian Crown and Council of Ministers have decided, that no orders of command are to be given to Hungarian soldiers in the Magyar tongue. Feeling between Austria and Hungary is intensely incensed over this matter.

MADRID, August 23. Women and children at Osuna —one of the most fertile plains of Andalusia — and other parts of the district are dying of hunger on the wayside, as the result of the distress arising from the failure of crops in South Spain. ST. PETERSBURG, August 23.

The Russians are buying silver largely, owing to the removal of the import duty. CONSTANTINOPLE, August 21. A plot has been discovered at Smyrna .—the most important seaport of Asia Minor —to blow up the Government buildings, the consulates, and foreign shipping. One hundred and fifty Armenians have been arrested.

ST. PETERSBURG, August 22. The Orthodox Russo - Greek Church authorities are organising a mission to visit the islands of the A ustralasian Archipelago. COPENHAGEN, August 24.

A storm struck the British Channel fleet Avlien it was leaving Esbjerg (on the south-west coast of Jutland). Three destroyers were damaged. SOFIA, August 22. A mixed band of Turks and Greeks, all in the Turkish uniform, murdered seVenteen Bulgarians and kidnapped four 'at Klaiderop, near Fiorina. STOCKHOLM, August 25. It is announced here that Avhen the union between Sweden and Norway is dissolved King Oscar will not oppose the acceptance of the Norwegian throne by bis son., Prince Charles. CARACAS, August 22. Venezuela has ordered in Europe five millions sterling worth of torpedo-boats, guns, and ammunition. OTTAWA, August 24. Three hundred sailors belonging to Prince Henry of Batten berg’s fleet, ito which Quebec is giving a naval exhibition at Montreal for the benefit of charity, were lavishly entertained. There is immense enthusiasm throughout Canada. A similar party are the Government’s guests at Ottawa. The Canadian sculler Durnan defeated Sdllivan, an American, by seventeen lengths. The time was 20min o6sec. CAPETOWN, August 22. The British authorities at Bechuanaland disarmed Ma Herero and other native captains, together with seven hundred and fifty Hereros. CAIRO, August 25. A heavy rainstorm resulted in destruction of a mile and a half of the Soudan railway.