VARIOUS CABLES.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8446, 23 May 1907, Page 5

VARIOUS CABLES.

A CRUISER ASHORE,

Received May 22, 8.27 a.m. LONDON, May 22,

Shanghai advices state that the French cruiser Chanzy is badly ashore at Saddle Islands.

AN ADVISER OF EMIGRANTS,

Received May 22, 9.56 a.m. LONDON, May 21

Mr R. E. Tomlinson, in a letter to the Daily Mail, states that thousands of unemployed are walking the streets of Perth, West Australia. He warns intending emigrants of the state of affairs.

PRETORIA MINERS' STRIKE,

Received May 22, 9.4 p.m

PRETORIA, May 22,

In accordance with their previous decision the men employed in eight Rand mines have struck.

THE WORK OF THE CONFERENCE. Received May 22, 7.35 a.m. LONDON, May 21. Mr Deakin, interviewed prior to his departure for Australia, via Paris, stated that the official resolutions unanimously passed by the conference were insufficient to call for congratulations. On several most important subjects the delegates not only failed to induce acceptance of their proposals, but failed even to receive a definite approach toward them. Though something had been done in nearly every case, that could have been accomplished by correspondence. But the general indirect and unexpressed results, Mr Deakin added, justified a very different one. They constituted a total effect which he would not attempt at present to estimate. It was impossible at present to say what effect the conference would produce upon Australia. Every such interchange of views tends to closer relations between the Motherland and the colonies.

Whatever friction may have occurred during the visit was, Mr Deakin btated, merely individual and transitory. The delegates separated cherishing the hope that the great ideas which inspired their gatherings would yet be crystallised at a future conference, to be placed on a more permanent basis and better equipped for wide responsibilities.