VARIOUS CABLES.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8412, 29 April 1907, Page 5

VARIOUS CABLES.

SUBMARINE VESSELS. LONDON, April 26. The Admiralty regards the submarine as a weapon of extraordinary effectiveness for defence of ports, and is to allocate a proportion of the colonial naval subsidies to the providing of submarines to meet the colonies' local needs.

A BIG LOSS. LONDON, April 26. Seven thousand cases of the Orotava's Australian butter are badly tainted. It is believed the damage was caused by bilge water. An exhaustive enquiry into the matter is being held.

A GERMAN LOAN. LONDON, April 26. The recently-announced German loan of twenty million sterling was subscribed forty-five times. MISCONDUCT OF A GOVERNOR. BERLIN, April 26. The Imperial Disciplinary Court has f reprimanded Herr Puttkamer, Governor of the Cameroons (German territory in West Africa), for interfering with justice, participating in trading companies, and introducing a paramour from Germany. He was fined £SO.

IMMIGRATION. LONDON, April 2£. Mr W. P. Reeves, High Commissioner for New Zealand, states that, for the year ended March 31st, 1907, 3,712 emigrai ts were sent to New Zealand under the reduced rate system, including A 254 domestics. Those whose applications were rejected numbered 1,846.

CANADA AND PREFERENCE. LONDON, April 26. Sir Edward Grey, Minister for Foreign Affairs, replying to a question by Mr H. Pike Pease, Liberal-Union-ist member for Darlington, declared that the granting by Canada of her intermediate tariff to foreign counnot prevent 'Canada from altering her British preference in the future.

NEW AUSTRALIAN LINE OF STEAMERS. LONDON, April 27. A representative of the new Australian Mail Syndicate had a brief interview with Mr A. Deakin and Sir William Lyne, and intimated that the company would be able, in a few days, to announce that satisfactory arrangements had been completed for the early commencement of the building of the vessels.

THE' COLONIAL PREMIERS. Received April 28, 4.54 p.m. LONDON, April 27. The proposed review at Aldershot in honour of the Premiers was cancelled owing to rain. BRITISH COLOMBIA'S IMMIGRATION BILL. Received April 28, 4.50 p.m. OTTAWA, April 27. Considering that British Columbia's Immigration Bill is chiefly contended to exclude Hindus and Japanese, and violates the AngloJapanese Treaty, to which Canada is a party, the Hon. James Dunsmuir, Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia, has reserved the Bill for Royal assent. NATIONAL LIBERAL CLUB'S BANQUET.

Received' April 28, 4.45 p.m. LONDON, April 27. Lord Carrington presided at the National Liberal Club's banquet. Mr Deakin did not attend. In proposing the health of the guests Sir Henry Campbell-Banner-man said he was satisfied that the conference would assist to develop the great commonwealths of the Empire. They were exchanging ideas in a brotherly way without jealousy and antagonism. Neither were they seeking'to enforce anything which others did not like. Sir Wilfrid Laurier contrasted the Roman'and British ideals of Empire! He declared that our motto ought to be "Imperial unity, but with local liberty and local authority." Sir J. G. Ward admitted that he conference was confronted with difficulties, but they must be overcome. He anticipated a splendid result, and suggesed that the Imperial Ministry might powerfully assist the outlying communities by co-operating in the development of a speedier steam service between the old and the new lands, and helping to reduce the cable charges. General Botha said he hoped soon to witness a large British emigration to South Africa. Mr Winston Churchill, in alluding to military organisation said that the Imperial Government did not wish to incite autonomous communities into a path of military ambition of extended warlike preparation. Lord Carrington insisted that all parties were determined to preserve the Empire at all hazards.

VICTORIAN PREMIER.. LONDON, April 26. Mr Thos. Bent, Premier of Victoria,, has arrived in London.-

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