VARIOUS CABLES.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8440, 11 May 1907, Page 5

VARIOUS CABLES.

RELIEF FOR JAMAICA. Received Ma'V id, 7.-36 a.m. LON00& May 9. The British Government *ill give £150,000 in aid of the suffef'S+s by the Jamaica earthquake, and Will lend Jamaica £600,000 for rebuilding purposes. THE COLONIAL PREMIERS. Received May 11, 1-12 am. LONDON, May 10. In order to enable them to fulfil their engagement in Edinburgh, today, the Privy Councillors, including Sir J. G. Ward, were sworn-iu yesterday.

ENTERTAINED BY THE KING. Received May 10, 7.25 a.m. LONDON, May 9. King Edward gave a dinner to the Premiers at Buckingham Palace. Among those present were the Prince of Wales, Dukes of Connaught, Fife, and Argyll, British Ministers and ex-Ministers, Mr Thos. Bent (Premier of Victoria), Sir William LyneJ (Commonwealth Minister for Traded and Customs), Lord Milner, the High Commissioners and the Agents-General. King Edward, during the banquet spoke as follows: —"I cannot leave this room without raising my glass to wish prosperity and happiness to the guests representing my oversea dominions. I give a hearty welcome to the distinguished statesmen here to-night. I trust they v/ill carry all away an agreeable impression of the Motherland, and I wish them 'God Speed' on their voyage home." The band of the Irish Guards played selections.