Various Cabled Items.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVII, Issue 3498, 18 March 1905, Page 3

Various Cabled Items.

DISJOINTED MAIL SERVICE. London, March 15. The “ Chronicle ” publishes a series of complaints of business men regarding the growing intensity of the dissatisfaction with the fortnightly mail service to Australia. Sydney, March 16. The Employers’ Federation has entered a strong protest against the mail muddle, and has called upon the Government to restore the weekly service. One exporter states the disorganisation in the mail service and the absence of a weekly steamer will cause a loss to the butter trade of £35 ,000 annually on the London sales and £70,000 on the local sales, while it will effectually kill the rabbit industry. MINOR MATTERS EPITOMISED, There arc hurricanes along th e British coasts. The ship Khyber, belonging to the Galgate Shipping Co., which left Melbourne on October 27th for Queenstown, with a cargo of was totally wrecked off the coast ot Cornwall. Three of the crew were saved and 23 drowned. The Russian polar expedition, under Baron Toll, despatched in 1900 in the ship Zarya, with the object ot exploring the new Siberian islands, has perished. Lieutenant Kolchak, the head of a search expedition, found a letter at Bennet island, dated 1903. showing that Baron Toll’s supply of food was exhausted,