GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, 14 February 1917, Page 4

GENERAL CABLES.

'*' A SCHOONER ASHORE. Australian-N.Z. Cable Association, Sydney, Feb. 13. The Union Company has received » wireless message that the American schooner E. B. Jackson went ashore while entering Apia, harbor, and is a total wreck. The crew were saved. ( LABOR CONFERENCE. Adelaide, Feb. IS. A special Labor Conference to discuss the party split was called by' the Premier of all members of Parliament who disobeyed the September mandate. Ho assured them that ho would abide by the decisions of the conference. Mr. Vaughan and his followers left, explaining that it was a final break in the Labor Party. NORTHERN TERRITORY. Sydney, Feb. 13. The Telegraph's Darwin correspondent states that the experience of the first five years of Federal administration proves that a White Australia is impracticable, or only to be accomplished after great expenditure and sacrifice. As regards Dr. Gilruth, no one could have succeeded under the conditions of his administration. Labor troubles are chronic and he has had to submit to almost all demands. TRAINING SUBMARINE BUILDERS. Melbourne, Feb. 13. Mr. Jensen states that he has sent fifteen and is considering sending ten more workmen to; England to gain experience of submarine building, with tb« view of building vessels here, THE TOTALISATOR IN AUSTRALIA'. Received Feb. 13, 8.35 p.m. Sydney, Feb. I' 3. The first in New South Wales, two small ones of the Tasmanian type, wore operated at the Kernbla, Grange races. They aroused much interest, and were wcil patronised, though* "hookies" were also operating.