HOME & FOREIGN CABLES.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXVI, Issue 10095, 12 March 1909, Page 1

HOME & FOREIGN CABLES.

[l3r Electric Tell-okai-h— Copyright.] (Pkti Pp.kss Association.) lleeeived March 11, at 9.50 p.m. Londons, .March 11. ?.lr Ben Morgan, the special commissioner of the -Manufacturers' Association of Britain, wdio recently visited Australia, read a paper before the Coloniai institute on the Kmnire's trade in the shape of a risume of his official report. He said it wi;.j the imperative duLy uf the British (government to encourage the employment of Brit;s!i capital within the Empire, as only by so doing could the Empire make itself self-supporting within a reasonable period. Mr ilenry Birehenough, a director of the British South African Company, who presided, expressed a hope that a steady and wide policy for the defence of the Empire's trade would be developed, because we were competing with people "who were bending their _ whole . energy to the defence of their trade. Mr Taverner ridiculed Mr J. B. Wil- ! son's gross misstatements in the Investors' Beview, and. the allegations that Victoria was stagnant, and that the colonies lived on borrowed money. He showed that Victoria's liability to the English investors had been reduced seven millions in three years. [Mr Morgans report opens in the following terms: —"The relations between the Mother Country and the colonies are, without doubt, decidedly unsympathetic. Tliis condition of things lias been reached, ill my opinion, through no lack of pa-triot-ism. hut owing to the. persistent use by tlie British Government of antiquated machinery and the adherence of obsolete principles in the administration of colonial affairs and the general control of trade at Home. ' Interference ! rather than cooperation describes the attitude of the Colonial' Olnce towards the colonies."] Received- Marjh 11, at 10.10 p.m. London. .March 11. According to the Liverpuol Journal oi Commerce H. and W. Nelson have ordered six new liners of 8425 tons register, with passenger accommodation, refrigerating space for 150.C00 oareas.-s of sheep, and a speed of 14 knots, for the Liverpool. Spain, and Uiver Plate service. Belgrade, March 11. Scrvia's circular note unreservedly places Iter cause in the hands of the Powers. A communique from Belgrade shows that Hervia's acquiescence in Uussia's peaceful counsels has aroused bitter feeling. Many of the public are asking whether the Government could not iong since have foreseen the result. Xcw York, March 11.

In a re-trial of 'the ca>c wherein the iStandar:! (!i 1 Tri;:sl was recently Jine-d 28 million -ilollars, Judge Antlersun, of (.liiciiuo. <lirt.cte:! th: l jury to acquit. This direction is the ontcom-c of his oijtxliencc to the rulings of Iho Court of which hikl rlov.ri the jirocedurc. Ijomlon, Marcli 11.

A \ew York correspondent re[iort:s thatt!ie ignominious coihi[>s>e oi! the law in the JStiindaril 11i■ ca.-;e ha.s citu-cd no .surprise at Washington. It conlirms President '•'aft's view ol the necessity for additional legislation. Kecvivc-'l .March 11. at 11.25 p.m.

London. M-iivh 11. .Mr Astpiilli, renlying to a <le])'.uat*njn, declar..i t!-:it ihe (government Inul not abated 0:1:3 jol 01 ti-Lir detennin:iii:»n regarding {lie Li'-cnsin.i Hill, and when the time came, tin-.- it wn-s not wry i'ar -tlistant, when they i.ssne and camtinto the open Meld, thrre would be no me::c"."re ? ey:: rcl in.i whicii t hi'v won Id a ;>- pt a I more conJi-dLn; !y in the peop!<) to decide between their eiculcd j". - live-; an-1 an bovly than the jjic: n;i!!u J-sii 1. The Chronicle it 1* mrlerstoo-i] King K.I ward will tahe occicsion to rcM?ivo the dcl'.'gate.s oi the Ini];eri;il I'r-e.-s Conferc n 1 e. There have boon two ea-cs '■>] snnibpo:-: in London ;ind two in ilohon. the o;Mcome of ti:c ( o:d (.'-oii'.:iii:iti<'n IliMi-d's meeting the jirike which thientcnc<l th'.' mines in South Wales is for the present averted. TROUBLES, (PKl'v PItK.SS A.SSOCIATIOX.) Auckland,, ?darch 12. The Ni(.'lok Islands correspondent writes that ii.M. Cambriiin arrived at Manihiki on February 15. Colonel .Cndgeon. the Commissioner. a'.comj)anied by Captain Lewis ami a iile of marines, proceeded ashore raid wure informed by .Nir .Williams; (iovc rnment a.gent, that m;itier.s were now (jiii.-i in M-;hihiki and , tlie !!;itives. wiio Jkul been inciied by the ■ Kakhaiua rebels to -d.ct'y iiie (iovernmenL j iiad sai-miti-cu to -Mr U'iliianiia' jurisdictiiai. Colonel (dudgeon de-eided to t;ikc no fui-iln 1 !- action. Ihikcrmi, chief .leader of tin' rebels at Uakalmnga. ludng in .Manihiki. w:is bri:nght before Colonel (indgeon on a eh-i ,- ;:e of the mnbe;-'.:<!ement of 600 do-iais, (.-jmrjh funds, and .-cnt .--need to two years" imprisonment. The Cambrian then proceeded to Rakahanga. where four men were charged with pulling down tlie K.ing'.: ll'igj =ejectiiig Judge Lnpon f]*om his. pnsition. illegally lining his .Majv£ty'.> .sn 1 ijccts, a.nrl preventing mitives frojn buying and selling at the stores. The prisoners virtually pleade-d guilty. Una wit ness stated that he hoard Pnkeran My when Cbion-.'l (.hidgcon came ashore in the warship lie would ask Colonel dudgeon something and if Colonel Oadgeon did not agree to his request he wanted the people to ri'-ie and kill Colonel Gudgeon, the Cbnm.'il. and Mr Williams. The defence was that the Council would not restrict the snle of cocoanuts and copra to traders. 'J he Court sentenced accused to one year's hard hibor at. liaratonga. Demckn, who act-cd illegally ars judge, was lined £5. Subsequently at a Court held on the C'ambria'n I'ukermt, leader of the rebellion. v/;is E<mtence-d to two years' hard labor at R.ni-atongri. concurrent with the previous sentence. Two-other men concerned were sentenced to eight and six months 5 . Colonel Gudgeon is -satisfied with tho result of the "visit-, and considers all the troubles ended.

On arriving at- Sail Francisco the other day the officers of the steamer Mariposa related an extraordinary story of how four Englishmen have maintained the British flag flying on the- island of liakatanga, between the Cnion Islands and the Mnnihiki Islands, iti Mid-Pacific, in the face of hostile hordes of natives. Owing to some . unexpected grievance the natives 011 the island hauled, down the British Jlag, and declared 1 their of kceping it down until the Administration re* I moved objectionable restrictions recently • ordered. Colonel Walter Edmund (.iudgeon, C.M.C.. Th'itish l?-r-5ident in the Cook Islands Federation, immediately left for the scene of tlu: disturbance with three- armed companions, and in defiance of the savages hoisted the tiag again and pitched their camp at tho foot of the flagpole. When the Mariposa left- the- Pacific the latest news was that these four men were estill on guard round the ilag, and were taking turns on sentry duty, with vitles ready for action. Religious fanatics were stirring up the natives to attack the flag defenders, but- word having been sent to the Xcw Zealand Government a gunboat- was expected to reach the island in a fe\v days. The nearest- gunboat was understood to be 2COO miles away from the scene of the 'disturbance when Colonel Gudgeon's defence of the Hag began. Lnder these circumstances tlie gunboat must have arrived before the Mariposa reached San Francisco.