GENERAL CABLEGRAMS

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 861, 6 July 1910, Page 7

GENERAL CABLEGRAMS

ByTelegr'apii—Press Association—Copyright.

. o SHOP ASSISTANTS' HOURS. (Rec. July 5,. 11.40 p.m.) London, July 5. Mr. Winston Churchill, President of tho Board of Trade, has introduced a Bill forbidding shop assistants to work more than 60 hours a week, or after eight o'clock on more than three evenings a week. Provision is also made.for a universal weekly half-holiday, Mr. Churchill promised that if tho Bill was not opposed it would be passed during tho present session.

NEW ZEALAND RHODES SCHOLAR.

London, July" 4. Mr. Ziman, the New Zealand Rhodes Scholar, has secured first-class honours in tho mathematics final, and secured ■ his B.A. degree. [Mr. Ziman was an Auckland University College student, and in 1908 graduated M.Sc, with first-class honours in mathematics, and third-class honours in physics.]

"EGYPT-FOR THE EGYPTIANS."

Cairo, July 4. Some of the walls of the Government Law School ■in Cairo have been placarded with the inscriptions, "Egypt for the Egyptians!" ,f Long Live-the Wardanists!"

THE PORTUGUESE TARIFF,

Lisbon, July 4. In 1911 Portugal intends doubling her Customs and shipping dues'against countries discriminating against her.

COPPER COINS SCARCE.

Melbourne, July 5. The Federal Treasury has cabled for 1,920,000 pennies and 960,000 halfpennies, owing to a scarcity in the copper coinage.

AUSTRALIAN-MADE ONLY.

. Melbourne, July 5. ' .The Federal Minister of Defence (Senator Pearce) has stated that tenders for the naval gun-mountings, required by his Department, will.be confined to Australia, but that if English firms will erect plants in the Commonwealth there will be no objection to their tendering.

DIAMOND DISCOVERED,

Adelaide, July 5. .A diamond has been discovered on the Pine Creek goldfields in the Northern Territory. [Diamonds have not previously been discovered in the Northern Territory, - so far as is known, but the country is highly mineralised.]

EDUCATION IN QUEENSLAND,

. ' Brisbane, July 5. A new curriculum for the Stato schools is being prepared; It contains the teaching of scientific temperance.

NEW SOUTH WALES RAILWAYS. Sydney, July 5. lhe Cowra to Canowindra railway has been oponcd. Its length is twentyfour miles. It has been constructed by day labour at a cost of £100,000.

AUSTRALIA AND GERMANY,

■ Sydney, July 5. itcrr Hemeken, managing director of the North German Lloyd, who is on a business visit to Australia, says that Australia will profit by tho good understanding with- Germany, should trouble anso over tho "White Australia" policy.

FRUIT TRADE WITH THE EAST.

„„ . Hobart, July 5. lnere as a movement afloat to exploit Japan as an apple market.