CABLE NEWS

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 3648, 17 May 1906, Page 3

CABLE NEWS

General Items-

London, May The Agents-General propose arranging a series of lantern lectures on Australia in the middleriass schools and County Council’s continuation schools. The first had been delivered at Camberwell grammar school by Mr W. Clark, i>f the New South Wales agency. It was a great success. Sydney. May n.

The High Court, in reserving the judgment of the lower Court, laid down the rule that information supplied to clients by a trade protection society, was privileged, even if it were incorrect so long as care was exercised and malice not drown. It lay with those respecting whom information was supplied to prove malice. A man residing in Alexandria has died from plague, At the inquest 6h the woman Rookes, a barmaid who was shot by her husband, the evidence was to the effect that they had been living apart for eighteen months. Rookes worried his wife to return to him, she refused, and just before the shooting said her husband was silly. Rookes replied, “I will do for you.” A post card was found in Rookes’ pocket, bearing the words ‘‘ It is because I love you that Ido this. Where I go you go.” Melbourne, May n.

Speaking at the Town Hall, Admiral Shimamury, of the Japanese Alliance was the outcome of the interests of the two nations in the Far East. Such being the case there was no reason why it should last only for the time covered bp the treaty, but for many generations. Sydney, May 12.

The workers’ representative in the Arbitration Court commented on the fact that girls working in laundries received only 8s to 10s weekly, which was insufficient to keep them in decent food and clothes. This condition of things was forcing young women into a state of immoralty. Unless they got sufficient to keep body and soul together under healthy conditions the old condition of slavery weie far preferable to the present system.