GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 58, 27 February 1908, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

KNOWLEDGE OF THE COLONIES. A HINT TO BRITISH STUDENTS. Received 26th, 11.1 p.m. Ottawa, February 20. The Right Hon. James Bryce, British Ambassador to America, in receiving the Doctorate of Laws at the McGill University, Montreal, referred to colonials' successes at the Oxford University. He emphasised what could be gained if Bri- 'V tish students came to Canada and Australia.

ASIATIC RESTRICTION ACT. Received 26th, 11.l p . m . *

Ottawa, February 20. The Full Court of British Columbia upheld Justice Hunter's decision in re«t*<tt .jof the Asiatic Restriction Act being contrary to the terras of the An-glo-Japanese treaty, THE BRITISH "PREMIER'S HEALTH.

London, February 25. line Premier, Sir Henry Cumpbelljliaunermaii, is recovering slowly from ins indisposition.

THE 'FRISCO SERVICE. New York, February 25. A Slii]) Subsidy Bill baa been introduced into the United States Senate liv Senator Gallinger. It proposes to authorise the payment of 16s per mite for the outward voyage to aecond-elass vessels running to anstraJasia an 3 the Philippines. TSfe is virtually the same rate as is at present applicable to first-class vessels.

BELGIUM AND THE CONGO. •i-i • j. , Ij °ndon, February 25. Jtanng the debate i„. the House of Ltirds on the proposed annexation of the Congo Free State .to Belgium, lord lutftnraurice said the Congo Government s attitude was more uncompromising than before in opposition to the propose!. Lord Lansdowne commented on this as a serious announcement.

KEIJt HARDIE WELCOMED. Durban, February 2!i. Mr. Keir Hardic, the British' Labor leader, addressed a crowded meeting at the Bloemfontein Town Hall. He was cordially received. SHIP-BUILDING STRIKE. London, Febrnary 23. A provisional arrangement for the settlement of the shipbuilding dispute in the North-East of England has been submitted to a ballot of the engineers who are on strike. CHINESE ON TITK HAND. London, February 25. In the House of Commons Mr. "Winston Churchill, Under-Secretary for the Colonies, stated that the average mortality of Chinese on the Rand was sixteen per thousand, while the mortality of Nyassaland natives employed in the Premier mine was one hundred per thousand.

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