GENERAL CABLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 60, 2 July 1914, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

[By Elhcthio I'siiHGUAPH— Copy bight] [Urn ted Plicae A locution.] (Received 11.5 n.m.) London, July 1. A deputation of Auglo-Colouials asked the Hon. T. Mackenzie, High Commissioner for New Zealand, to take some action in regard to clause 5 of the Finance Hill providing that residents of the United Kingdom shall pay income tax on incomes acquired abroad whether remitted Home or not. Mi Mackenzie consulted the Canadian and South African representatives and the Australian Agents-General and will probably discuss the matter with the Imperial authorities. London, July 1. Before the Dominions Commission, Dr. Norris said the Commonwealth’s emigration regulations were not intended to be restrictive but to make the medical examination more humane and more consistent than previously. He had appointed fifteen thousand medical referees in England to issue certificates to emigrants. Melbourne, July 2. Mr Wynne, referring to the All-Rod cable route, said his opinion was that wireless was going to supersede the cable system very shortly and messages would be transmitted between England and Australia chiefly by this means. There was at present being erected a powerful station at Port Darwin, enabling direct messages to be sent to Singapore, continuing \by the All-Red wireless system. It was much cheaper to erect and equip wireless stations than to lay a cable across the Atlantic. Brisbane, July 2. The revenue was £0,973,258, an increase of 595,046, and the expenditure £6,962,516, an grease of £590,118. Melbourne, July 2. The Commonwealth returns show aa accumulated surplus of £1,108,328, and expenditure £2,268.127, being an increase of £1,760,564. The customs and excise revenue was £14,973.551, exceeding the estimate by £73,0i1. Postal revenue was £4,514.318. which was £33,683 under the estimate. State payments totalled £6,192,999, as follows New South Wales £2,248,241. Victoria £1,733,229, Queensland £BIO,274, South Australia £540.113, West Australia £613,606, Tasmania £247,536.

Adelaide, July 2. The revenue amounted to £4,838,105, which was an increase of £311,167. Hobart, July '2. Mr Solomon, Leader of the Opposition, moved a motion of censure on the Government—That the action of the Premier in accepting office subject to certain conditions and subsequently refusing to carry out such conditions, is subversive of every principle of good government and does not meet with the approval of the House. The motion was negatived by 14 to 13. London, July 1. In the House of Lords on the debate on the second reading of the Amending Bill, Lord Lansdownb said amendments would be introduced to make the exclusion real and adequate. , Before the Dominions Commission S(r Godfrey Isaacs said there would shortly bo 'open new wireless stations at Carnarvon and Belmar, near New York, enabling the transmission or receipt of 100 words per minute for the greater part of twenty-four hours. He hopbd soon to establish land wireless between Glace Bay and Vancouver, linking up the Pacific cable. There was no reason why Sir Henniker Heaton's penuy-a-word messages should not ultimately he realised.