VARIOUS CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVI, Issue 285, 6 December 1904, Page 2

VARIOUS CABLES.

FEDERAL HIGH COURT FINDING,

(Received Dec. 5, 9.85 p.m.)' SYDNEY, Dec. «., The Full Court on Juno 28th g»vt * a decision 'declaring that the «on> ' mission appointed to. inquire (me the working of the Machine She** ~ era' Union was illegal and tin* constitutional. The Right Court pi ' Appeal toiday reversed the Fuji Court's decision, and the Bench un£ jl: nimously declared that tho commit- - r sion was lawful. ' . ', (Recei%ed Doc. 8, 10.55 p.m.)' l :J SYDNEY. Doc. ft. ' M The Chief Justico, in delivering tib* w High Court's decision, said It h*».' ,J ? been suggested that the appointment -i n of the commission was an inter- A ferenco with tho course of justitt; '' '■' The Arbitration Court wus, to a-cer- '* tain extent, working out experiment: 'f tal legislation, and it was not likely - that all its details could in the first ' instance be worked out to complete % satisfaction. It was very likely &*.<!{ machinery or groundwork of M contained defects, and if in the OpbMjfg ion of the law—for the LflgiahHHraH was the law—in certain respect* nflrHg: was considered defective, surely wjjjn Legislature could not be debelrrm>a| from inquiring into any of theMitetJH fects. In no sense could the AHMrtrowgS ment of the commission be caJJftlM*!! interference with the of Justice, or the issue of the mission, he said, would hive hemit&'rM ah unlawful purpose. In the pnffoVjm case all the objections token by UrnM respondent, hod been fantastical. '3W&

THE BOER CONGRESB. (Received Dec. 5, 10.45 p.m.) ', CAPETOWN, D«. L . V The Congress at Brandfort mftkJMt; a rudest for responsible gown-'-meat, and ex-Generals De Wet' la^,'. Hertzog have been conuniejfooed ' to'' interview .the Government. ;;*

MAIL SERVICE RESUMED. (Received Dee. 5, 11.69 p.m.) ' SYDNEY, Dec, *..] A French mail steamer has arrived the first for several months owUty to the great strike at Marseille*

NEW SOUTH WALES CROPS,V

SYDNEY, Dec. 5, 'H The protracted/hot weather MBga§ (he absence of rain is injuriously ,*f*?|l fecting cereal and fruit cropa WhWsj| in some districts was caught '*l--»jffl critical period and prevented fromyfll filling. ' ■ gja GENERAL NEWS EPITOMISED. «[ The Italy-Oerman commercial trearlll ly has been signed. ' > Jttm General Prince Mlrski (RussiaA'J Minister for the Interior) i| deputation of Russian-Zionists that '« they need not fear persecution. * J There is a wave of religious revet "S alism in Wales, and scenes have occurred in a numbfcc «£ *& districts, where football and othmiii amusements have been foreswore. 4H Sir Harry Maclean (Military 'WII spector-Gcnoral) attributes the ' 00*11 rest, in Morocco, besides the revoftlH against the Sultan, to *■'"—"ff|P arising out of tho French torate. • The committee of tho !Yc»Jrtii||f Chamber of Deputies has adoptMm the Disestablishment Bill. The TinteaiM Paris correspondent foreshadows, S«W togetlicr apart from the diletttbill lishment question, signs of a Ministerial crisis. THm The United State* Government I*ll3 tends firmly calling Venezuela's aSHi tention to the sottltag of the KweTj Vork-Bermudcz Asphalt CompatwVlS claims. Great Britain, France aadll Italy are hesitating to collect thehhll dues, preferring America to Venezuela to an appreciation of hap-ill shortcomings. • rr; *S