GENERAL CABLES

Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1678, 20 February 1906, Page 3

GENERAL CABLES

By telegraph. Press'A«s’n, Copyright Sydney, Fob. It*. The Daily Telegraph, commenting on Sir Joseph Ward’s advocacy of universal penny postage, says it fears that at present Australia is not yet m a position to he able to afford the luxury. While Sir Joseph Ward may desicant on the blessings that penny postage has brought to New Zealand, his Australian colleague to the Postal Conference may be found voting j against the proposal. The Labor Commissioner reports that the revenue roceived from the Government casual labor farm is highly satisfactory. i?ivo plague rate have boon discovered in Sussex street. Steady progress is being mado_ in stifling the fire in the Junction mine. An outbreak also occurred in worked out ground of the Proprietary mine. It was confined to a blind alley-way. Prompt measures are being taken to prevont it spreading, and the fire is now under control

Melbourne, Feb. 10. Mr Deakin states that so far as he knows the discussion at the New Hebrides conference in London related to every endeavour to arrive at an agreement as to the method of determining land titles in the group. It was extremely unlikely a comprehensive determination, arising out of it would be actually reached, (Sir W. Lyne, in the course of an interview, said he noticed New Zealand talking of the necessity of preferential trade with the Commonwealth. He this was in consequence of a big slice of Tasmanian trade being cut off Now Zealand’s commerce with Australia, which was evidently beginning to make New Zealand think. I The matter had not yet come before the Cabinet, so he was unable to say whether Australia would bo willing or I not to enter into a preferential trade agreement with New Zealand.