DELAYED CABLES

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 250, 22 April 1912, Page 3

DELAYED CABLES

(From Australian papers). PANAMA OANAL. The N.--.Y York Chamber of CommtMC has passed a resolution protesting against the proposed legislation to prohibit the use of the Panama Canal by & steamship company in which any of the railroad companies are interested. The resolution declares that the canal should be open to all shipping, irrespective of ownership. AMERICAN AVIATOR'S TOUR. The well-known American aviator, Mr. Atwater, with his wife, have left San Francisco for the Orient. He is taking with him two hydroplanes and a biplane. Mr. Atwater contemplates making flights in China and the Philippines, and possibly in Australia. FLYNN WILL MEET JOHNSON. Jack Curley, manager for Jim Flynn, is conferring with the 'business people of Los Vegas with reference to staging the fight between Flynn and Jack Johnsou in that town next July. In reply to the assertion that the Pueblo flremaa and his manager are not sincere in their desire to promote the contest, Curley states that the ibout will positively take place in July unless Johnson forfeits. CANADA AND THE STATES. Responding to one of the toasts at the Harvard Club, at Seattle. Sir Charles Hibbert Tupper, a former Canadian Cabinet 'Minister, said:—"As Americans north of the line, our interests are yours, and Ave have the same ipoint of view. But we shall cling to our gods, to our idea of a free democracy under the best limited monarchy on earth, as you Trill to your ideals of the freest Republican Government on earth. Instead of growing further apart, we shall come closer and closer together, each recognising the ideals of the other, our aims for the betterment of mankind, and,, above all, for the peace of the world." ENGLAND AND GERMANY. The Berlin correspondent of the United (Press Association says that since the failure of the Rritisli Government to disclose any tangible results arising out of Lord Ualdane's visit to Germany, Court gossips have been busy with a theory that the journey had something to d« with the possibility of a betrothal between the Prince of Wabs and the Princess Victoria Louisa of Germany. There is hardly a responsible statesman or a. close observer.of affairs in either England or Germany who will now deny that lie considers that war is a probability unless some form of rapprochement is effected in the near future. The marriage altar might afford the desired solution of the difficulty. Louisa is the only European Princess worthy the notice of the British Court, and the Prince of Wales the only Prince of sufficient importance to aspire to the hand of the Kaiser's only daughter. It is whispered, however, that the Prince of Wales is not overjoyed at the prospect of his 'marrying his. Imperial second cousin. AYIRELESS OPERATORS. It has been decided that all the male operators in the wireless stations controlled by the Northern Pacific Wireless Company, both on sea and on land, shall be supplanted by women. It is said that they are more to be depended upon than the men. The first two are now being trained thy the company's chief operator.