CABLE NEWS.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXII, Issue 8925, 19 September 1907, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

Press Association —Copyright. London, September IS. The Executive of the Amalgamated Society o£ KiUlv.'.-.y Servants cannot decree a strike unless 75 par cent. «.f the railway men vote rilirmativcly. The Executive believe that 00 per cent, will support them. The .Ouncvit Gpy's new steamer Mauretania has been launched at the Tyne. One hundred and fii'f.y hales of wool ami skins, portion' of the cargo of Patroclus, have been landed and forwarded to London. Larjfo quantities of wheat have been jettisoned to relieve the strain on the vessel. Prospects of salvage have improved as the cargo is discharged. Sydxey, September I:,'. Parliament meets on October 2nd. Pijkin, September .18.

The, steamer Tatumaru has been burned near Chingfciang. : One himdred are reported to have perished. AT.ELHOCIENK, Scptuiubor 1". rn , : ---"V.iii that was brewing iu Tho tr._ .* ~,,, -Ir.urrtit.xrregard to the v.'ages u± . ■---*.. iii-jii engaged iu ;t'ie export trauo **, averted for tbo present, both sides agreeing to roi'er the dispute to the Wages Board. At a meeting of the Federated Butchers' Employees' Union a letter wa.s read from tho Cautorbury Slaughtcmeii's Industrial Union, stating that the whole of tlio unions in tho Dominion v>*ero being federated, and desired to amalgamate with the Australian Union. Ottawa, September 18.

The Canadian Pacific Railway propose to make Fort Y,"illiam tlie fines-; inland conKCrac-ting port in tin? world, and arc coiisruettiiig a million-ton dock, with otlior Irhugo works, to attract trade to the lakes. 'l'iiß Hagol:, September 18. The Dairy Congress [ unanimously recommended tno" hygienic equipment, of cowsheds, and "advocated cowshed compcUtions. Tin Congress itonds to appeal to the Legislatures to co-operato with the object:; of the Congress.