LATE CABLES.

Wanganui Chronicle, Issue 15000, 27 November 1900, Page 3

LATE CABLES.

FEDERAL CELEBRATIONS.

KEPR KSENTA r TIVE n TO a BE PRESENT

LORD HOPETOUN IN CEYLON

THE STATE OF HIS HEALTH.

WHAT McKINLEY'S RE-ELECTION MEANo.

THE PACIFIC CABLE.

TO BE FINISHED IN 1902

IMPORTANT MARITIME CONFERENCE.

Press Association-Telegraph-Copyright. Received November 27, 0.52 a.m. DURBAN, November 26. The Natal Government sends a Minister to Sydney to represent them at the Commonwealth celebrations.

WASHINGTON, November 26. President McKinley, speaking at Philadelphia, said his re-elation implied endorsement of the gold standard, an open book m China, and American sovereignty in the Philippines

COLOMBO, November 26.

Lord Hopetoun has arrived here. He was carried ashore, and is the guest of Sir Westridge Way, Governor of Ceylon, during his stay. Major Philson states that Lord Hopetoun's condition was serious when he left Bombay. On the voyage he improved, though he is still weak. PERTH, November 26. Sir W. Forrest announces his candidature for the Federal Parliament.

MELBOURNE, November 26.

The Postmaster states that the Telegraph Construction Company's tender for the Pacific cable is £1,795,000, and it is estimated that insulation and survey will cost £204,000, making a total of £1,999,000. It is to bo completed on July Ist, 1902. The Company undertook to lay it- within that time if allowed to begin with the Fiji-to-Norfolk Island section, then Norfolk to Australia and New Zealand, finishing with the Vancouver section.

An important conference of representatives of steamship owners and Steamer Assocatious, a sequel to the recent maritime tiouble in Sydney, has opened, and is discussing the demands of the seamen, firemen and trimmers for an increase of wages from £6 12s to £7 a month, overtime ut the rate of Is 6d per hour, hours of labour in port from 7 to 5 p.m. (with hours for meals), and certain concessions on holidays.