VARIOUS CABLES.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8400, 15 April 1907, Page 5

VARIOUS CABLES.

.SEIZURE , OF. AMMUNITION. .LONDON, April 12. A,further ..seizure vOfXQO, 000 cartijidges. has. beer. mada.at .Newcastle. .BELGIAN .MINISTRY RESIGNS. ..BRUSSELS, April 12. Owing .to.a fresh .defeat in the .Chamber in...a debate on..the question ,af regulating .hours of ..labour in mines, the .-Belgian Government has resigned. .NAVIES QFJAPAN AMD, CHINA. LONDON, April 12." The.battleship of Dreadnought type ordered in England by Jayaan.will be completed in .1909. She vWiill carry twelve 12in, jten..B.2in, and twelve 4.7iß,guns. A ,sister ship : is. being built in Japan. Reports from native sources in China state that China's aew, navy will ,*ost annually twelve million taels ma.ee than a million and a half sterling). It will include a dozen submarines.

ARBITRATION ACT.

LONDON, April 3.2. Mr W. iP. Reeves„ High Cojsairiissioner of JNew Zealand, in a lettartfco IThe Times, explains swith regard &> recent strides in New.Zealand that.it is ridiculous to suggest that the Arbitration Act has broken down, a&d .that the Arbitration Court is powerlees. ,A REFORMER REMOVED. LONDON, April 12. Afivices from Pekin ivention the practical exile of Tang-sbao-yi, Minister istf the Waiw/uripu, an&a strenuous advocate of reform. He has been appointed Governor of; Mukden province., and relinquishes various metropolitan functions whiqk yielded him an income of £25,000. GIFT FOR SCIENCE. BERLIN, April 12, Mrs George Speyer. of Frankfort, a near relative of Sir Elgar Speyer, of Speyer., Brothers, has given £150,000 for the promotion of science. KITCHENER'S INDIAN COMMAND EXTENDED, LONDON, April 12. The appointment of Lord Kitchener as Commander-in-Chief in India will be continued for a further period beyond November.

WOOLWICH ARSENAL. , LONDON, April 12. The workmen who have been (dispensed with at the Woolwich Arsenal have i*eceived, with their discharges, information respecting the colonies and foreign countries.

ELOPEMENT AND.DIVORCE COURT. LONDON, April 12. Engineer-Lieutenant E. W. Chamberlain is applying for a divorce, on the ground of his wife's adultery with Sir Brodrick Hartwell, with whom she eloped to Australia. The Judge was satisfied with the evidence of adultery, and adjourned the case for proof of marriage.

DOCTORSHIP OF LAWS. Received April 14, 4.40 p.m. LONDON, April 13. The Edinburgh University has conferred the honorary degree of Doctorship of Laws on Sir Joseph Ward, Dr. Jameson, and Mr F. R. Moor, Premier'of Natal. Dean Gray, in conferring the degrees, remarked that Sir Joseph Ward's dominant characteristics w,ere perseverance, energy, and rare business capacity.

AUSTRALIAN MAIL CONTRACT. Received April 14, 5 p.m. LONDON, April 13. Nothing will be done respecting the mail contract until the syndicate move. Mr A. Deakin is waiting for them to go on with the contract or make an explanation. It is probable the matter will remain in abeyance pending the return of Messrs Treves and Clarke.