GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, 20 January 1917, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES.

MELBOURNE'S TRAMWAYS. Australian-N.Z. Cable Association. Melbourne, January 18/ For tlie Melbourne Tramway and Omnibus Company's, business, ' taken out by the Tramways Board, £333,000 compensation has been awarded; * FEDERAL POLITICS. I Melbourne, Jan. IS. The Liberal meeting was adjourned at midnight until to-day. .Members are retieent as to the proceeding but it i 3 understood that no deiiuite decision as to the formation of a War Ministry has been reached. At a result of Wednesday's meeting Ministerialists considered it pot '.bio that the Pnnatc ' u!d he allowed > ;-o to the .cuntry 'rself in Ma Fu«c. The T . lla , Party discussed tV.o Hughes-Uuk agr; <mcnt, but tha suit 'u not yet 1 nowti. . . Other reports of ths Liberal mediae •| state that it was distinctly in favo: 'f a Government comprising all partic M_r. Hughes' proposal is regarded ..a c./ta"in" to bo rejected. RESIGNATION OF GREEK CONSULS. Melbourne, .Tan. '., The Gazette announces that the Creek Consuls 'at (Perth and Brisbane, have resigned. HEAT WAVE IN MELBOURNE, ■Received Jan. 1!>, !).40 p.m ' Melbourne, Jan. If) The long heat spell is intensified. The thcrmouirroi today registered «, shado temperature of 100 degrees in the city. FEDERAL POLITICS. Eeceived Jan. 10, f1.45 p.m. Melbourne', Jan. 10. The Liberal Party has further co'v sldored Messrs Hughes' and Cook's agfee .inert. Subsequently Mr. Hughes made a statement that Air. Cook had handed him a resolution adopted by the Liberals, whiot was submitted to" Mr. Hughes' party and unanimously accepted! The Liberal Party were afterwards informed of this acceptance, and are now disciiisiig further proposals arising out of the position thus created. Mr. Tudor, leader of the official Labor Party, stated that he bad received a copy 'of a resolution adopted by the Liberal Party. Though the text is not disclosed, it is believed the -solution proposes that all p.\rticx rIiov.I;! paitieipate in Hie formation of a Nation:! Covcrnnjent. . At the coming Senate elections, four Mmisterialsts and three Liberals, supporter! of conscription, and two Labor lce'mbcrs, anti-conscription, wiil retir\