CABLE NEWS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 3611, 13 February 1906, Page 3

CABLE NEWS.

Various Items-

-' London, February 10,

Mr Taverner, Agent-General for Victoria, in an interview, urged Earl Carrington, President of the Board of Trade, to introduce a new Butter Bill into the House. Karl Carrington said he is anxious to do all possible. He will appoint a Select Committee of the House of Commons to_ take evidence on the whole question of moisture, blending, and “ faking,” and is framing a Bill for the protection of producers and consumers which he hopes will pass by Junei Reuter s Rome correspondent states that Baron Sonnino has been made Premier and Minister for the Interior ; Count Guicriardine, Foreign Minister; _General Maiseone, Minister for War; and Admiral Mirabello, Minister for Marine.

Captain E. Lascelles, a Canadian, who served on General Mutton’s staff during the Boer War, read a paper before the Royal United Service Institution. In the course of the paper he said that the colonies should provide, train, and mobilise for the Imperial service, a legion of 20,000 troops —Canada 10,000, Australia 6,500 and New Zealand 3,500. He believed the colonies could easily find the men and many of the officers. He estimates the cost of such a scheme at a quarter of a million annually, exclusive of the cost of ammunition, mobilisation, stores, subsidies, and transport. General Hutton considered there was no hope of inducing the colonies to accept such a scheme. It was out of the question to suggest any control of the Dominion and Commonwealth forces outside of Canada and Australia. William Davenport and the Rev Vivian Moyle, charged with fraud by means of a bogus trawling company, have been sentenced to three years’ penal servitude and eighteen months’ hard Hbour respectively. The OM Bailey Recorder expressed his horror at Moyle’s re-admission to the cure of souls after his conviction and imprisonment for seven years in York in 1873 for fraud involving /JII,OOO, Davenport was also sentenced in 1893 to eight years for a fraud involving A3°>~ 000, The New South Wales two million loan was well received at a quarter to a half premium. It is repayable at par in 195p> Government having the option of redeeming it at any time after The Board of Trade inquiry exonerated the captain and officers in regard to the wreck of the Hilda at St. Nalo, Thursday Island, Feb. 10. In reference to the denial that the Japanese visitors had obtained possession of plans of Sydney harbour defences, it is stated that when the Captain of the Australian found he had left the Japanese behind, he went into their cabin to secure their effects intact, and found a box lying open with certain papers and plans exposed. These were the reports of the Sydney Harbour Trust, with the plans of the wharves and sheds. Melbourne, Eeb. 10.

The average prices of the various options under the loan were;—Stock, £gS 5 s ld 5 de ' hentures, 5s $d ; bonds. 15s. Mr Bent, speaking on the subject, said he had been found fault with for getting in ahead of New Zealand, but it was his duty to do so. Capetown, February 10. A Chinese gang nurdered a storekeeper near the Tudor mine on the West Rand. They decamped without robbery. New York, February 10. An explosion at the Ferrell colliery, Makhill, Fayett County, Virginia, killed 35 men.Calcutta, February 10. The Prince and Princess of Wales have arrived at Hyderabad. Theboycotte of British goods in Bengal has collapsed. Madrid, February 9. King Alfonso has officially informed the Ministry of his betrothal to Princess Ena. The wedding takes place on June 2 at the Church of San Geromino K 1 Real.