GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 59, 17 May 1907, Page 3

GENERAL CABLES.

STRAITS SETTLEMENT AFFAIRS. London, May 15. Th Times' Singapore correspondent says that so much dissatisfaction exists respecting the Crown Agent's arrangement of Strait affairs that it lias been suggested that a strong expert independent of the Colonial Office should investigate the colony's fipauces. UNREST IN INDIA. Calcutta, May 15. Forty more persons have been arrested at Rawal Pindi. The Civil and Military Gazette -t Lahore is receiving numerous letters from influential Mahommedan?, Hindus, and Sikhs dissociating themselves and their communities from the seditious movement and denouncing the self-appointed leaders of a spurious patriotism. WAGES BOARD. Melbourne, May 15. During a deputation to the ■ Chief Secretary in connection with the Wages Board, Mr. Prendergast, leader of the Party said lie had changed his mind on some things and now preferred the Wages Board to the Arbitration Court, because boards enabled the trades to get to work quickly in fixing the condition of labor. SHEEP FOR SOUTH AMERICA. Melbourne, May IG. Extensive purchases of stud sh:ep have been made by a visitor from Uruguay, who gave 1000 guineas apiece for several merino rani 3, while ewes averaged 120 guineas apiece.