Various Cabled Items.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVII, Issue 3541, 1 July 1905, Page 3

Various Cabled Items.

The Australasian tennis players have made a brilliant start at Wimbledon. The Prussian Upper House has adopted a Protection of Miners Bill. New South Wales State Parliament has passed an Arbitration Amending Bill. t , China wishes to be represented at Russo-Japanese peace coniereucis at Washington. Canada contemplates giving further preferential trade concessions to the; Motherland. A strike of dockers and barguemen Js in progress at Liverpool, owing to eoitie foremen refusing to join the union. • , , , ... There are excellent exhibits of New Zealand refrigerated meat, poultry, and dairy produce at Earl’s Court, Crystal Palace. McConville, a well-known Sydney resident, was murdered in German New Guinea by three natives with tomahawks. . , , \V. N. Willis, recently arrested in connection with the New South Wales land inquiry, has issued a writ against the Sydney “ Newsletter.” In the. match against Warwickshire the Australians won by an innings and 51 runs. The County men made 168 ftnd x6i. Commonwealth politics have as-; sumed a new complexion owing to Mr Deakin's assertion at Ballarat that he had withdrawn Ins support from the Rqid Government. The House of Commons, by 222 votes 'to 58, passed -the first reading of a bill to stop* reckless motoring. A fine of £2O or a month’s imprisonment is provided for a first offence. Speaking on the a rmy stores scandal in the House ot Commons the Financial Secretary for War said the statement that £7,000,000 was lost by sale of stores was absurd, A smn £6,400Oio was realised and as Lord Kitchener had over estimated the value of surplus stores it could hardly be said another £600,000 was lost. Transvaal authorities will only register soldiers having private means and there is much political, excitement, manv holding that the destruction of the Constitution, through the disfranchisement of the military and constabulary, is aimed at. Sydney newspapers denounce the slipshod Federal laws which enabled the Slattery conviction to be upset. The Government is now going to consider the perfecting of the Crimes Act. The High Court of Australasia has in its first year reversed about three out •f every four Supreme Court judgments appealed against. Hon. W. P. Reeves, High Commissioner for New Zealand, presided at the annual dinner of New Zealanders in London. Lord Ranfurly and Sir Montague F. Ommaney, Permanent Under-Secretary ot State for the Colonies, were present. Hon. A. Lyttelton expressed a hope that Im perial Conferences might be rendered ■tore useful by the better previous in Stuction of delegates. Mr Reeves said a new class ot problems was coming to the front, dealing with inter-imperial Hations, and these demanded fresh machinery for consideration and friendly settlement.