LAST NIGHT'S CABLES

Manawatu Standard, Volume XL, Issue 7316, 9 June 1902, Page 4

LAST NIGHT'S CABLES

(13v Electric Telegraph—Copyright) Por Pross As.-oeiahon. London, Juno 7. During an outburst of Mount Pelec on Friday, thero wero heavy clouds but no Rtono upheavals.

The sea between St. Vincent and St. Lucia indicates submarine eruptions. Soufricre, with stoam and flashes of flame, bun increased tho apprehensions. The Admiralty floating dock for Bornmda, built by Swan and Hunter, of Wallsend, lifted tho Sansparoil, a vessel of 11,000 tons displacement, with her armour, guns, and stores, bodily out of the water in tho Medway. Sir Robert Giffcn, giving ovidenco before tho Houso of Commons' Steamships Subsidies Committee, recommended tho establishment of liners to connect ali the ports of the Empire, to tho exclusion of foreign-subsidised ships, on tha const ai.d trading betweon Britain and the colonies, unless they complied with British rules in iho matter of construction nnd equipment, end paid a fine equal to tho sub-" sidy received.

S-r Robert remarked that tho Amtrican Government treated the combine, including the White Stiir line, as tho propoity of Americans.

[Sir Robert Giffon U assistant secretary to the commercial department of the Board of Trade. Ho was appointed bond of the statistical department of the Board of Trado in 1870, His principal works are " Stock Exchange i-'ecurities," nnd " Essays in Finance-."]

London', June S. Mr Arthur Lynch, member for Galway City, in p. letter from Paris to the Speaker of the llcuse of Commons, confesses that ho went further ihnn others in his sympathy for tho Boers in their struggle- for independence, and overstepped Iho bounds,' legality. In tho matter of the tribunal before which he should -.ppear to be dealt with, ho leaves himself at the speaker's disposal. Paws. June C. M. Corabea succeeds M. WaldeckRousseaii as Premier, M. Dclcasse bc-ing Minister for Foreign Affairs; Andre Minister for War; and M. Rowhcr Minister for Finance, in the new Cabinet. Ottawa, June 8. The Co ifererco at Toronto Ims asked Sir "Wilfred Laurior, Premier, to urge tho Premiers' Coufcreneo to sc-curo a Royal Commission of British and colonial representatives to investigate and suggest a scheme of preferential treatment.

A small majority was in favour of au onuuiil appropriation in tho Budget io enablo tho Dominion to decide its own special parlicipation in tho general defc-nco ot tho Fmpiro. Tho Conference furthor urged Biitain to accredit to foroign Governments certain consular agents to bo appointed by the colonies, who would bo onipoworod to protect British rights. Tho Conference endorses the action of Canada in subsidising cargo steamships to South Africa and Australia iv such a manner as to enable rates to bo rsdueed aujlow an from New Yoik.

Spoaking at a banquet to tho deleRites, tho Hon, Joseph Turte, Minister for Public Works, confirmed tho early establishment of a Canadian lino of fust transatlantic steamers out of I'icrpont Morgan's reach. Ho said they must also have a Canadian lino of freight steamers.

Tho Hon. YV. Mulock, Pos'.nmsterGeneml, announced that a cargo line to Australia would bo established in a few months at Canada's expense, it necessary.

Sydnhy, June S. Light rain is reported in the westorn district-

Mklbocksk, June 7. During a biographic oniertaniincU.iit the Parnagulla 'I'heutro a gns tube?,"is leaking, 'i'ho operator stiuck a mat h, uml tho explosion scattered the bri^is used foi v.L-ight(UK tho nparatus <lo\'<i, in nil directions.

Several of tho audience weio struck, and a stampede followed.

Tho csc.%po door was fastened, and numbers clambered through tho windows, nnd Bovoral were injured, but none severely.