CABLE NEWS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 8199, 28 May 1906, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

(By Elcdria Tolcgr»ph*~Oopyrtgbi) t Per Frew Aa«o«iaUoo.i LONPOM«M«|t37» Renter's P«n*a« ts* ports that influential AwtiffthAnß have fonxMHl- R syndicate with 'fl capital of £'10,000 to exploit tin deposit# in fcfifc Malay Foninaulft. Deep mining is considered probable. - TbeCUy OovmmUm- Assertion adopted a roßolutfon thai Sir Edward cxpkufttf OTiH regarding the sharp divergence between hia pro-election speeches and Parliamentary action relative to tariff reform i» unsatisfactory nod that ho Jtia« forfeited the confidence of the electors. ■ '. ■ _ Mr Sloan'* Bill prohibiting tbo ealo of intoxicating li«juor# in Ireland on Sunday waff read a second time by M 4 to 50, and referred to the Standing Committee on Trade. Beater's Berlin correspondent states there are no recent negotiations with Persia and none are in progress. MELBOURNE. May 27. Next year a £1,000,000 loan fails doe, and another of £'2,000,000 in the following year, Mr Bent itt unable to *ay at present whether any portion will be taken up locally, bat in view of these redemptions he thinks it unlikely that any reduction in the Income Tax will be proP ° SC<i * SYDNEY, May 27. The departmental inquiry into tho subsidence of Shepherd's Hill, Newcastle, while not definitely fixing the cause, believe it to bo,duc to the fatt_o! tho roof in tho workings of the Sea Fit tnino. It is confidently expected thai no further serious developments will tako place.

Efforts to refloat the barquo Yinccnnes b&vo so far been unavailing. CAPETOWN, May 27. Under tho compromise agreed upon by tbo South African Cutstom»' Convention, the Transvaal and Oraugia consent to raise an additional ,£150,000 a year through Customs, To satisfy the coast colonies they are agreeing to a simultaneous increase in railway rates and a robato on British goods; also a slightly modified Bill has been read a fimt time 1 in the Capo Parliament to prevent 1 monopoly in the meat trade. [ Sir W alter Hely-Hutchinson, Governor and Commander-in-Chief in opening the Cape Parliament, announced, in continuance of a policy of mutual trust and goodwill, the. introduction of a Bill remitting all sentences of disfranchisement. * PARTS. May 27. Le Temps' Berlin correspondent has been oiiiemliy informed that the statement of the Puns correspondent of the Standard relative to Persia granting support to Germany i« baseless. NEW YORK. May 37. The appellate division of tho Supreme Court of America has unanimoußly discharged G. W. Perkins on a charge of larceny in connection with tho New ? York life frauds, declaring that there was no criminal intent. Tho ease now goes to tho Court of Appeal. GENEVA, May 27. Tho Socialists of Switzerland were signally defeated in the National Council elections, also in cantonal and communal elections. This is attributod to their anti military campaign.