GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 123, 11 October 1912, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

CANADIAN IMMIGRATION.

By Cable»—Press Association—Copyright,

Ottawa, October 9

At Maeleod, Alberta, addressing a gathering of newly arrived American settlers, the Duke of Connaught, said that Americans were always welcome. History was repeating itself. For many years young Britons sought their fortune in the Western States and the tide had now set in the opposite direction, bringing across the frontier numbers of settlers, many of whom were returning under the British flag.

AN ASSASSIN SENTENCED. Rome, October (I. D'Alba has been sentenced to thirty years' imprisonment for his attempt to shoot the King, in March last.

BIRD DAY. ~ Sydney, October 10. Bird Day, which has for its object the protection of native birds, was successfully celebrated in the schools.

NEWSPAPER APPEAL DISMISSED. Melbourne, October 10,

The High Court unanimously dismissed the Argus appeal in the signed article case. It found that the Federal Parliament had full power to regulate elections, including the publication of articles.

THE GOVERNMENT HOUSE TROUBLE

Sydney, October 10. Ministers warmly disavow disloyalty ii; connection with the eviction of Lord Denman. They claim that they made a fair offer to "the Federal Government, and if it had been accepted Lord Denman could have remained.

MANUFACTURERS' WEEK. Sydney, October 10.

At a dinner in connection with the All-Australia Manufacturers' Week the speeches expressed gratification for the growing demand for Australian-made articles and the great expansion of local manufactures. Mr. Hughes, referring to preference to unionists, said it did not differ from protection in any fundamental way. It was merely a demand to have preference over someone else. What was protection, or nationalisation, but tkat?

A HOME RULE PROTEST. Sydney, October 10,

The Anglican Synod adopted Canon Archdall's resolution for presentation to the King and Parliament, protesting against the Home Rule Bill as unjust to a local section of the Irish people and provocative of civil war in Ireland, threatening the stability of the Empire by placing the traditional enemy of Protestant principles, the Church of Rome, in a position to carry out its intolerant principles and effect the total separation of Ireland from the British Crown.