Various Cabled Items.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7708, 10 January 1905, Page 3

Various Cabled Items.

NOT A WHITE MAN'S PARADISE. SYDNEY, Jan. 6. A despatch from the Colonial Secretary of the Straits Settlements state there is no employment for white men there and no chance of doing anything. EDUCATION SYSTEMS COMPARED. SYDNEY, Jan. 7. The Education Commissioners have issued an interim report on commercial and technical education. It deals with the systems in vogue on the Continent; and elsewhere, but in view of a fuller report makes no definite recommendations. COMPANY EXPLOITATION. PERTH, Jan. 7. The report of thd Royal Commission in connection w.ith the Great Boulder Perseverance Mine is a lengthy document. It finds that it has been the policy of the directors to religiously prevent any information regarding the working and the true position of the mine becoming known, and keeping many important matters from the knowledge of the shareholders. It would appear that the chairman of directors (Mr Frank Gardner) and sqmc of the directors have throughout advanced their own interests, and shown an utter disregard of the interests of shareholders. The report makes a recommendation for preserving the interests of shareholders in the mines and preventing a recurrence of the abuses disclosed by the inquiry; SUEZ CANAL CHARGES. 1 LONDON, Jan. 6. « The Daily Mail states that the Suez Canal reduces t'he dues live per cent, per ton in 1906. RELIEVING DISTRESS IN LANDLONDON, Jan. 6. The Central Committee of the London unemployed has' adopted emigration as part of the permanent machinery for relief, selecting the likelilest good settlers and excluding casuals. A HERERO SET-BACK. BERLIN, Jan. 8. Major, Me is tit captured Grosrtabas after 50 hours' desperate engagement. His casualtied numbered a thousand. The Hereros' losses are unknown^ ENGLISH BYE-ELECTION. LONDON, Jan. 8. At the Stalybridgc election, Mr Cheetham (Liberal) polled 4092 and Mr Travis Cleg (Conservative) 8078. (This is a Liberal gain. At the general election, Mr White Ridley, who succeeded to the title of Viscount Ridley, boat Mr Cheetham by 80). AUSTRALIAN BUSH FIRE RELIEF FUNDS. (Received Jan. 10, 0.49 a.m.) SYDNEY, Jan. 9. In reply to a cabfc from New Zealand the executive of the Bush Fires Relief Committee telegraphed tjiat in view of the Premier's statement and the liberal local contributions no outsido assistance was requlircd. NEWCASTLE COLLIERY TROUBLES. SYDNEY, Jan. 9, TJie wheelors of twelve collieries set arbitration law at defiance by absenting themselves from work today, The proprietors have decided to seek legal advice on die situation created.

RECRUDESCENCE OF HEAT WAVE. (Received 10, 0.49 a.m.) MELBOURNE, Jan. 9. The temperature to-day rose to 104 "degrees, but is now cool. A bush tire is raging in the Wairnambool district.