VARIOUS CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVI, Issue 206, 3 September 1904, Page 3

VARIOUS CABLES.

MINOR ITEMS EPITOMISED. The Victorian State School Board advises that it has resolved to abolish the cane and substitute the strap. Major - General Sir E. Hutton, (toaeral Commandant) lias aga.n impressed the Federal Government with the necessity of establishing a small arms factory. Notices of the reductlion in the price of coal have been posted at the Newcastle pits, 'iho Miners' Federation takes legal advice on the question of reducing the rate. Mr John Kedmond, Leader of the Irish Parliamentary Party, has appealed for £IO,OOO. He raised £2UOO at his first meeting in New t'ork. At the second meeting there were noisy interruptions, coming ii'om members of the Clan-na-Gael and Orangemen alike. The split in the ranks of the Labour Party in West Australia is widening. The Trade council has expressed disappointment with the proposals of the Daglish Government, and asked thq Labour Party to secure the adoption of the fjabour platform in its entirety. The Anglo-German arbitration agreenient, which is published, provides! that before appealing to Jhe liague tribunal each dispute must be clearly defined, with the scope of the arbitrators' powers. Periods are fixed for the formation of the tribunal and the several stages of procedure. Sir William McMillan, a member of the Federal House, in un address on preferential trade, declared that the scheme was too ridiculous ior sober argument. It was absolutely impracticable, and instead of building up and consolidating the Empire will, if ever attempted, be the death-note to her political union.