Condensed Cables.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLV, Issue 267, 28 December 1903, Page 4

Condensed Cables.

Serious charges against the Meibourno police are to be investigated. The Arbitration Court at Perth has interpreted its award in the case brought by the timber employees, and which led to the recent strike. The Court fixed the minimum wage stating that it was competent for the employers to say they would not pay more. The decision is very distasteful to tho men, and further complications are feared. Major Younghusband's advance on Lhassa id unopposed, the Thibetans assisting him to carry supplies. It is officially announced that King Edward and Queen Alexandra hope to revisit Ireland in 1904. A non-party committee of sixty business Commoners, appointed in Juno to investigate the difficulties of tho iron, steel, and engineering trades, has been dissolved owing to the formation of the Tariff Commission, which several of its members joined. The "bull" interest is umprecedentedly strong in the New York cotton market, and prices are still rising. It is rumoured that another "bull" pool, similar to last year'shas been formed. Twelve Stourbridge flint gla.'-s workers went to America under contract to English manufacturers, who established works at Corning. The Glassmakers' Union at StourCridge warned the American authorities, who arrested the glass blowers, and, after detaining them for some months, ordered their deportation. The strike of Parisian bakers is collapsing. News has been received at Sydney of the wreck at Coquimbo of the barquo Champion, coal-laden, from Newcastle to Coquimbo. The London Daily Telegraph states that next session the Government Whip will not communicate with Messrs Winston Churchill, Poyrr'er, Ernest Peckett, Bowles, and T. W. RusscU, whose criticisms of thje Government have been particularly severe duri lg the recess. ' The journal Le Petit Parisian states that gold reefs have been discovered at Le Genest, in Mayonnes. BoringU indicate that they may possibly rival those in Australian lield.9. Captain Rason, Commissioner of the • New Hebrides, strongly contrasts the generous monetary assistance given by France to French settlers with the way that British enterprise is hampered. The French New Hebrides Company is re-con-structing and receives sixteen thoueand sterling annually from the GoCaptain Rawson fooks forto increased activity on the the French jii tbo futuie.