GENERAL CABLES

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10306, 5 August 1911, Page 3

GENERAL CABLES

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LABOUR TROUBLES

(Received August 4, 9.10 a.m.)

HOBART, August 4. The carters' strike has ended. Themen have- accepted the terms offered by the employers, which provide for increases but not c-o largo as the Union, demanded. SYDNEY, August 4. Before the Shortage of Labour Com- 'j mission evidence was given that car- ; penters are busier now than during any period since 18S2. (Received August 4, 8.5 a.m.) CAIRO, August 3. A tramway strike here led to serious riots. The police relentlessly sabred the rioters, who replied by throwing stones, some using revolvers. Thirty were injured, including several police, and several cars were wrecked. (Received August 4, 10.30 a.m.) j BRISBANE, August 4. J The nine men arrested in connection i with the Childers riot were sentenced to three months' imprisonment on charges of intimidation. The police visited the Childers strikers' camp, and arrested sixteen more. Unionists at Mackay induced the crew of the steamer Trinawar to leave the-vessel because they had towed a lighter load with non-Union sugar. At Townsville the strikers induced a number of free labourers proceeding to Cairns to join the strike. ' At Bundaberg twelve strikers were committed for trial on charges of unlawful assembly.

THE VETO BILL

(Received August 4, 8.5 a.m.)

LONDON, August 3. The Times states that the censure motion will afford the Ministry _ the opportunity of explaining and vindicating its action in respect of the King's Prerogative. The decision to, move such a motion was the result of the Stalwarts' "appeal to Mr Balfour. Some Opposition papers attribute the tenacity of the Stalwarts to the breathing of a new spirit into the Unionist party, whilst others interpret it as a rebuke to indiscreet Unionist zealots. The Radical press declares that Mr Balfour is making capital out of the Crown, and that his motion has been framed in the effort to placate rebels.

A BYE-ELECTION

(Received August 4, 10.10 a.m.)

LONDON, August 4

The bye-election for the Middleton Division of Lancashire to fill " the vacancy caused by the appointment of Sir' W. R. Adkins, K.C., to a rectorship, resulted as follows: — Sir W. R. Adkins (L.) 6803 Mr W. Hewins (U.) 6452

THE NEW HEBRIDES

(Received August 4, 10.15 a. N m.)

MELBOURNE, August 4. The Rev. Paton, Presbyterian Foreign Missions Secretary, states that letters from Presbyterian missionaries more than confirm Bishop Wilson's statements regarding the oppression of the New Hebrides natives. > The New Hebrides Synod, at its annual session, drew up a minute stating that the cases of irregularities were so numerous as to lead people to wonder whether there is any hope of redress against wrong doers who happen to be under jurisdiction. The-minute, after majung charges of illegally supplying liquor, kidnapping, flogging natives, arid offences against morality, urges thai in the interest of justice and for the advancement of civilisation of the natives, the Home authorities should make the strongest possible representstiohs to the French Government that the provisions of the Convention should be enforced, without fear or favour, upon all under French jurisdiction. The Synod absolutely repudiated the absurd and groundless 'charges made ,in the French Chamber, by the late Governor - General of Madagascar, I against the Presbyterian missionaries I in the New Hebrides.

MOROCCAN CRISIS

(Received August 4, 8.5 a.m.)

BERLIN, August 3. The German Colonial -Society has issued a manifesto protesting against any settlement with France which fails to give Germany compensation in the shape of the Sua country.

PARIS, August 3. Complaining of overwork and unjust punishments, the crews of the torpedo flotilla at Cherbourg mutined. t . Two hundred men, including a petty officer, have been placed under arrest.

THE SOLOMONS

(Received August 4, 9.10 a.m.)

• SYDNEY, August 4. '. ■ Professor m an interview: stated that the natives of the Solomon Islands were steadily dying out. The only island where they are increasing is Malaita, where they are still wild. The Professor stated that as a result of the reduction of the population there is not enough labour to go round the plantations, and in three or four years the planters will have to import alien labour, probably from India. In time the Solomons, like Fiji, will become a mere annexe of India. The only thing that can save the islanders

will be, as in the case of the Maoris, to abolish primeval communism, and the adoption of steps against a too great laxity and idleness.

ETHNIC ORIGINS

(Received August 4, 10.50 a.m.)

SYDNEY, August 4. Professor MacMillan-Brown is of opinion, judging from the radical characteristics and language of the Solomon Islanders, that they form a mixture of a great number of races. Negroid races came to the Islands probably in the geogological period when the process of earth elevation was going on, and so were able to travel almost the whole way across dry land. Other waves of the Caucasian race, also from Southern Asia, afterwards swept down over the Negroids. During tens of thousands of years the waves must have kept coming down. When Polynesia was first populated it may have been that where.there are -atolls now there were fairly broad and high islands. Through all human time these may have been gradually sinking. Hence came a practice of abortion, infanticide, and a knowledge of oceanic navigation. The land sinking under them they were compelled to go somewhere.