GENERAL CABLES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXI, Issue 450, 25 February 1909, Page 4

GENERAL CABLES.

IK ,I*ON don, February 25. |®a!Ulcship Belle*option has felaced in commissicn 26 is after her keel was laid at [l.’New York correspondent of +taes reports that the estiof ’the total cost of Admiral y’S cruise, including ammti- *. Edward, visits Biarritz on King has directed diamond in the In shall he made deie Queen’s use on 3. Cilice regidalions man beings being Depress letters, two ere delivered as elegraph messenger h-’s house. They by the messenger as !EY, February 24. to the short weight ts at Newcastle, .he railway vveighly to blame, but the my that, and assert bridges are tested the Victorian Agent tales he made enlalf of the Federal ) the bona tides of a se fiim doing busiy. The investiga,t the business is a cept going by Goney to cover the be partners who are ; Japanese Goveruservice under conr.e Consul ridicules 1 emphatically deine, February 24. firm of Bryant and establish a wooden and expect to com>ns at the end of the Tasmanian cables -esslnlly laid. da} r of the season ;d yesterday. The the city was 108. th, Febrnaiy 24. Rosenwax’s pawnbroker’s shop and worth of Wellery stolen. • Durban, Feb. 23. ■ Dissatisfaction with icgard to e Constitution exists in Natal, he Hon F. Moor, Premier, and W. Morcom, formerly (fenw-General, attended a meetg which resolve.! in favour of day and referendum. Capetown, Feb. j.v 'The Hon J. Meiriman, at anonarty f meeting in Capetown, leaded for the Contilution, and earned the public against a pronaive agitation. He discouraged teeiidtneiits by the colonies lest tiey should result in disruption. Ottawa, Feb. 23. The new Canadian Immigration Bill contains stringent regulations ig dust the admission of unde ;ira£)les and anaichists.

Speaking at the Canadian Club, Mr Gibbons, chairman of the Canadian section of the International Waterways Commission, praised' British diplomacy but thought the time; had arrived, when Canada should be mistress of her own house and control her own foreign affairs. Mm,bournK, February 24.

The Federal Minister for Defence has prepared a report on the political aspect of the question in connection with the proposed Imperial General Staff and the suggestion that Australia should raise five divisions of the army which is to guard the Kmpire. A second report, by Colonel Bridges, deals exclusively with the military aspect. Both reports have yet to be considered bv the Cabinet,