VARIOUS CABLES.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8404, 19 April 1907, Page 5

VARIOUS CABLES.

IMPERIAL POSTAL ORDER SCHEME. Received April 18, 9.10 a.m. LONDON, "April 17. Mr Sydney Buxton, PostmasterGeneral, is in communication with Australia and Canada with a view of inducing those Commonwealths to accept an Imperial postal order scheme. AGRICULTURAL COLLEGES. Received April 18, 9.10 a.m. LONDON, April 17. The'ltalian Ambassador in Londbn has asked Mr Deakin to support King Victor-Emmanuel's scheme for colleges. WHITE LABOURERS FOR QUEENSLAND. Received April 18, 10.19 a.m. LONDON, April 17. Mr W. M. Hughes, one of the Australian delegates to the Navigation Conference, is at present in Vienna trying to engage several hundred labourers for the Queensland sugar plantations. He is offering free passages to-Queensland. Overtures to engage men in Italy have failed. ThejEmigrants Office in connection with the Colonial Office warns British emigrants to remember the climatic conditions of the sugar farms of North Queensland, and considers it very questionable whether they will be able to work under the tropical conditions. * Recruiting for ordinary farm labourers is proceeding satisfactorily, but there have been many defections since the conditions were fully plained. Received April 19, 12.14 a.m. SYDNEY, April 18. The Mr Hughes mentioned in the cable as engaging labour in Vienra is an employee of the Colonial Sugar Company, not Mr W. M. Hughes. The company despatched him to Europe to engage men for the Queensland sugar growers. He; has authority to secure 1,050 men. ' —— . ,r v AN IRISH [UNIVERSITY.

Received April 18, 8.30 a.m. LONDON, April 17. The Irish Catholic Bishops Accept the University scheme of Mr ; Jas. Bryce, late Secretary fpr Ireland and now Ambassador at, Washington, as being completely satisfactory and final. ! Mr Birrell, Secretary for Ireland, stated "in the House£ of Commons, that the Government would follow the main outlines of the scheme, subject to any necessary modifications. j '' ' - " ■ ' GOVERNOR OF BERMUDA , ISLANDS. - Received ipril 18, 11.22 p;m. LONDON, April 18. General R. McGregor Stewart, Governor of the Bermuda Islands, has resigned for private reasons. > RAILWAY STATION ROBBERY. Received April 18, 7.53 a.m. NEW YORK, April 17. A man entered the railway Station at Saint Paul (Minnesota) and compelled a clerk to open a safe. The man took 25,000 dollars and escaped. A BREACH OF TREATY. Received April 18, 7.53 a.m. LONDON, April 17. The Times' Tangier correspondent reports that indignation and astonishment are expressed in diplomatic circles owing to an action by Sid Hadji Mohammed missioner for Foreign Affairs, who, in defiance of the Algeciras Treaty, a contract with a German firm for the construction of a boulevard on the sea front at Tangier, and of a new system of drainage. NEW YORK TEACHERS. ' Received April 18, 7.53 a.m. , NEW YORK, April 17. The Senate of New York State has passed a Bill fixing female teachers' minimnm salaries in public schools at £144, thus'bringing about equality of salary with male teachers. The approval of the Assembly is assured. This step means an aggregate in*crease of a million sterling in the State's expenditure.

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