GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 59, 29 April 1907, Page 3

GENERAL CABLES.

I THE VICTORIAN PREMIER. London, April 2(i. Mr Bent, the Victorian Premier.. hj, arrived in London.

J. SHIPMENT OF BUTTER TAINTED. . London, April Si l Seven thousand cases of the OrotavaS g. Australian butter are badly tainted bj ' bilge-water. An exhaustive enquiry i to be held. CONGREGATIONAL UNION. Sydney, April 27. The Rev. Kirkby has been elected President of the Congregational Union ,ol Australia.

,;; ABOUT RATS. >. Sydney, Ami! 27. It is reported that although 100,000 rate are destroyed every year b Syripeine number seem not to decrease.

EMIGRATION TO NEW ZEALAND. London, April 2(i. Mr Reeves states that for the year ended March 31st 3712 emigrants we Bent to New Zealand under the redrate system, including 254 domestics; 1846 applicants were rejected.

THE COAL STRIKE. Sydney, April 27. The Sydney coal lumpers' delegate attended a meeting of the Newcastle Atfharf Laborers' Union, which informally decided to assist the local lumpers to the extent of refusing to handle vessels which usually coal at Sydney.

EFFECTIVENESS OF SUBMARINES. London, April 20. jJKhe Admiralty regard submarines a**tfeapon of extraordinary effectiveness for defence ports, and are disposed to allocate a proportion of the colonial naval subsidies to local needs.

ENGLISH RIFLEMAN FOR ACS TRALtA. London, April 20. The London Corporation has voted a hundred guineas towards sending a riil team to Australia.

COMPANY MATTERS AND POLITICS London, April 2(i. In the House of Ctumons Mr LloydGeorge announced a Bill prohibiting rail and other statutory corporations from contributing out of their funds to political contests.

THE NEW HEBRIDES. Sydney, April 27. ' Captain Withford, one of the oldest traders to the New Hebrdies, informed -J r an interviewer that the French have ■ [#y tee 4in tne Ending of li( l" 01 ' a " ' • fire-irons at the Island'. A result .- S£'that the French are securing the bulk * rf the trade, and the ivritish are hopelessly handicapped. All the Australia l Government has ever done has been to use the naval power against Brilish ;■ settlers in fining them, and the fact that some Britishers are still left al the New Hebrides is not because of British protection, but in spite of its absence. British regulations are hopelessly ignored by the French settlers ;* and treated as a farce in every way It was a disadvantage for a man to own himself to be a British subject. Cap tain Withford has little faith in the w.-v Convention, and says it will probably be the same old, heart-breaking story over again "of regulations enforce/ l>v the Britsh being laughed at by the French.

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