CABLE NEWS.

Wanganui Chronicle, 6 March 1901, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

Presi Association —Telegraph—Copyright

LONDON, March 4. The Pacific Cable Board has resolved Lhat the New South Wales agreement With the Eastern Extension Cable Company is prejudicial to the Pacific cable, and advised a conference of the Governments concerned to discuss the matter. The Victorian Agent-General voted for the resolution, Mr Copeland being against it. The bye-election for Maidstone, necessitated by the unseating of Mr John Barker on an. appeal on the ground of bribery on the part of his agents at the general election, resulted as .follows:-—Sir Francis i Evans, Liberal, 2575; Mr Milvan, Cimservative,2lß2. SYDNEY) March 6 . The Sydney Hat Company's factory was ! partially gutted by fire, and a quantity of helmets for the- departing contingents destroyed. LONDON' Marcll 4j Only a, quarter of a. million out of 700,000 entitled voted at the London County Council elections. Professor Golwin Smith declares that tue Imperial copyright, marriage, and patent, laws are natural accessories of a limited Empire. ' Obituary—Hon Albert J. Henniker, heir of Baron Henniker, aged 36. SYDNEY, March 5. The Government commences forthwith the erection of grain elevators, and cold storage premises -at Newcastle, at a cost of sixty thousand. MELBORNE, March 5. Sir John Maddten is suffering from nervous prostration. Mr Mathieson, Railway Commissioner, has accepted the general managership of tho Midland Railway, and severs bis connection with Victoria so soon as the rush of tarffic connected with the Yorks' visit ig over. ______^___