LATE CABLE NEWS.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 9160, 31 May 1901, Page 3

LATE CABLE NEWS.

♦ j Eleotrio Telegraph—Oopj right United Press Aasooiation.) SYDNEY, May 31. ] The Karrakatta's case is not plague. Tbe Trades and Labor Council has decided to support the iron-workers' strike. The half-caste Locke has been convicted of criminal assault on a girl named Wood on March 25th. The death sentence was passed. The balance of the Chingtu's China contingent have been released from quarantine. NEWCASTLE, May 31. • A lighter discharging New Zealand produce from the steamer Wanaka capsized, and over six hundred Backs of oat*, maize, bran, and potatoes, valued at £250, were submerged. Four men aboard escaped > MELBOURNE, Tttay 51In the House of Representatives, Mr Solomon, of South Australia, said that that State could not afford, to stand loss on administration of the Northern Territory. Either the Federal Parliament must re-imburse it, or the Imperial Government would have to.take, the Territory over. . A trans-Continental railway would not pay the cost of greasing the wheels. It would be absurd to construct a line costing five millions over barren country. In the Senate Mr Glassey, of Queensland, said there was nothing ih the cry that white labor could not engage m sugar cultivation. During the last ten years the mortality amongst Kanakas m Queensland had been alarming, over 42 per 1000. He would not be a> party to destroying the sugar industry and sweeping away the Kanakas without due warning. . • LONDON, May 30. Mr Chamberlain, m 'hfe Birmingham speech, reminded the Oddfellows that one-half of London's societies show an I actual deficit of 5s m the £,- owing to ' such allowances paid to aged members. I The International Miners' Congress I unanimously approved of State pensions" to the aged poor and others' unable to work at a specified age, to be comparative. The Congress approved of the principle of old age pensions to every I citizen, male and female. The Church Defence Association has received several hundred resolutions car|ried at meetings protesting against any alteration of the coronation oath.