AUSTRALIAN CABLES.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXVI, Issue 44, 21 February 1905, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN CABLES.

FAVOUR PREFERENTIAL TRADE. ( Received S.4G a.m.i SYDNEY, this day. The Chamber of Manufacturers ha.s adopted a resolution favouring preferential trade with the United Kingdom, subject to the paramount necessity of providing for and conserving local industry. a swrararyq record. (Received 9.17 a.ni.) SYDNEY, this day. Iveran swtun 440 yds in sm. 2-> i-.'w.. tearing Cavill's world's record by fourfifths of a second. PROGRESS OS LORD HOWE ISLAND. SYDNEY. February 20. llr. Farnell. the visiting magistrate, has returned from, an official visit to Lord Howe Island. Ho reports that matters there are satisfactory. The inhabitants are contented and happy, and their health generally is good. The scheme inaugurated for controlling tbe export of palm, seeds is giving satisfaction. The dry weather had interfered seriously with the crops, hut a large quantity of onions i* beinjr shipped. Shark-fishing i= quite an industry in the island, and hundreds are caught weekly. They art' treated tor oil. un>l thfi fin? a.n? exported to China. CHALLENGING LORD MAYOR'S ELECTION".

SVDXEY. February 20.

yir. -John Norton-, ea.se. in which he challenges the election of the Lord Mayor tMr. Taylor), has been dismissed with tive guineas cost against him. The magistrate held that the evidence disclosed nothing more than an ordinary bnsmes3 transaction. Mr. Taylor, in supplying timber for the eleetri ligation of the city, had acted in ;i bona-fide manner. Mr. Norton announced his intention of taking th* case to the Full Court.