CABLE NEWS

Temuka Leader, Issue 5839, 6 July 1909, Page 1

CABLE NEWS

BRITISH & FOREIGN. LONDON, July 1. The speakers at the National Peace Conference at Cardiff denounced the boy soouts movement and boys' brigades. They complained that they were teaching boys to become professional murderers. The quarterly revenue amounted to £31,695,000 ; customs contributing £7,961,000. excise £6,822,000, and stamps £1,825,000. Two. noticeable features are that the property and income tax yielded £3,286,000, a decrease ol £14,000 ; and the estate duties £6,461,000, an increase of £2,124,000. The following are the sentences in connection with the robbery from the warship Indomitable, on February 23rd, when £2500 in notes and gold was stolen, while the warship was anchored off Shccrness ■ —'William T'omcy (Dotty officer!, five years’ penal servitude ion the charge of stealing ; Alston (lending seaman!, and Ethel Haglcs (married woman!, twelve months and three months respectively on charge of; receiving. The newspajwr Grocer gives prominence to the reports of excessive moisture in New Zealand butter, and blames the Government for not enforcing th* Export Act, but granting • radars’ certificates when they know that much of (he butter from New Plymouth and Auckland shows an excess of moisture.

Tlk> Commissioners of tlx: ISSI inhibition luivo renewed the scholarship to Mr Finlavson for a second year. LONDON, July 2. J. E. Savile, accused of shooting Charles I,'niac.ko, wa s acquitted. The Press delegates and the .London executive coimnittce have made the existing organisation pcsnuincnt in order to consider the interests of the I - nipirc Press as a whole and make necessnv'- arrangements. The conference la s therefore established an Empire Pre-s Association restricted to daily oarers, all on a basis of equality, with associations ami committees in eacli dominion and dependency. The secretarial Work will be carried on in London, Mr C. A. Pearson, who hitherto has boon ill. presided. July 3. The Daily Mail’s correspondent at Berlin gives the following details of the German Dreadnoughts ; —The Nassau. Westfalen, and Rheinland are .each '159 feet long, 90 feet in beam, and 18,500 tons burthen, of 20,000 horse power, and 19 knots in speed. The Cluecher is 507 feet loner. S2 feet }u beam, of 32,000 horse-power, and 21 knots speed.

I The Admiralty’s June contract for preserved beef has been divided equally between the Queensland and Central Queensland Meat Export Com- : panics. The whole contract for mutton was given to the Sydney Moat Preserving - Co.

| A land slide in a deep trench at the new lock, Alexandra IJock extension, at Newport, Monmouth, hurled many iff the workmen. It is estimated that ! twelve perished. Others were extricat- , ed alive from under the angles formed 1 hv fallen timber.

Wootton. the Australian jockey, wlio was i-ocentlv kicked on the head by a racehorse, has left his bod. Ho is very sore, but convalescent.

' The Pacific Cable Company’s oiler arose from Sir .1. G. Ward’s propro.sal to reduce the terminal charges to ; the Press to 4d pec word, conditional i on the Pacific Company reducing their share to 2d. The Pacific Company’s ( counter offer of 2Ad. is subject to New I Zealand reduciiur the terminal charges i (o td. making a Od rate, which will I operate after 21 days’ notice to the Herne Conference. The rate is expected to bo initiated on August Ist. CONSTANTINOPLE .Inly 2. It has been deeidod to commit Ali~ dnl Hamid for trial before the High . Court. ST. VINCENT. .July 2. 1 The Legislative Council of St. Vincent resolved to offer Britain 1 per cent, of the local revenues towards the Inrperial navv, unfettered with conditions. The Connell regrets the ’ smallness of the amount, but declared j that it was a practical acknowledgment of the gratitude St. Vincent mv,s to Britain.

j _ MESSINA. July 1. ' I*nrllier eartlnpialve chocks have been felt at Pa■-"io. 'I lie inlmbitanis are i’an:e-sfricken. Severn) have been inaired and some buried under the walls. NEW YORK. July 2. Mr McClelland, Mnvor of W\v Vori', In's dLinbs'd General Biindtam. C<unmicsioner of Police, nclenciblv because | he refused to dismiss certain snbordin-

1 • i_r* i s l l \1 A-IlfciAUbi aim: The'New York correspondent of the Times reports that the general interpretation of this decision is that General Bingham has been sacrificed to Tammany. ._ T T i a I TEHERAN, July 4. | (Virile adhering to non-interference with the Persians in internal affairs. Russia has sent "a regiment of Cossacks a battalion of infantry, and a battery of art llerv. to Kasoin, in readiness to protect Europeans in the event of a continued advance of the Bakhtins and others, who are prccipating disturbances and endangering the safety of foreigners. .