LATE CABLES

Waikato Independent, Volume IV, Issue 238, 12 June 1906, Page 5

LATE CABLES

THE NEW HEBRIDES. [l>Y ELECI RIO TELEGRAPH—COPYRIGHT. (PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.) (Received June 11, 8.55 p.m.) Paris, June 11. Senator St. Germains, interviewed, attaches little importance to the Australian suggestion that Mauritius olleis compensation for the surrender of the New Hebrides, and considers the acquisition of Mauritius would not justify the abandonment of the position France obtained under the New Hebrides protocal. BRITAIN’S NAVAL PROGRAMME. London, June 11. The Telegraph says the Government intend to modi 1 y the naval programme of its predecessors by abandoning the building of a second Dieadnought or large armoured cruisers, thus saving £2,000,000. Larger economies arc predicted in next year’s estimates. GERMANY’S NAVY. Berlin, June 11, The German naval authorities have ordered an 18,000-ton battleship from the Germania Yard, and a 15,000-ton cruiser from the Imperial Shipbuilding Yards. AMERICAN TRUSTS. New York, June 11. The New York Herald states President Roosevelt intends to withdraw hour entry 40,000,000 acres of public land in the Western States, containing coal, petroleum, and minerals, with a view of checking the Standard Oil Company and other monopolists.