GENERAL CABLES

Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2082, 17 May 1907, Page 3

GENERAL CABLES

PRESS ASSOCIATION* — rOPYRIf.HT. LONDON, May lo

Mi% Bent, Speaking at a dinner of the Association of Foreign Consuls at the Criterion, complained that they heard nothing but Canada talked in England. The newspapers scarcely mentioned Australia.

Sir Charles Dilke, presiding at a meeting in London, announced that the Government wero referring the Wages Board Bill to a select committee. Sir Reginald Talbot, Governor of Victoria, said the Motherland might follow Victoria’s example, but would be unable to do much unless it restricted pauper immigration.

Mr. Bent reads a paper on Australia on June 11th at the Colonial Institute. Lord Jersey presides. There is a general fall of British railway stocks owing to the threatened strike.

The Times’ Singapore correspondent says there is much dissatisfaction at the Crown' agents’ arrangements of Straits affairs, and it is suggested a strong committee of experts, independent of the Colonial Office, should investigate the colony’s finances. The mail syndicate is advised that it is within its rights under Ithe contract.

PARIS, May 15. The Chamber, by 343 to MO, voted confidence in the Clemericeau policy, refusing to 'permit Civil servants to join trade unions.

' SYDNEY, May 16. Major Long, the Imperial Army inspector, was favorably impressed with the quality of New Zealand m'eiat and the processes adopted, also with the careful system of inspection enforced by the Government. Major Long states that the tinned meat industry of New Zealand was too small to permit of extensive business being done.

Mr. Carruthers, in a speech at Molong, said before Federation he believed they could trust the other States, but now he had discovered his error. The Federal Farliament had given treatment to this State which would not be given to a dog on a chain. -~

MELBOLRNE, May 16. An extensive' purchase of stud fjlieep lias been made by a visitor from Uruguay. He gave one thousand guineas apiece for several merino rams, while ewes averaged 120 guin-

eas each. _ During a deputation to the Chief Secretary in connection with the Wages Board, Mr. Prendergast, leader of the Labor Party, s,'aid he had changed his mind on some things, and now preferred a Wages Board to an Arbitration Court. The Boards enabled the trades to get to work quickly in fixing the conditions of labor.