VARIOUS CABLES.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8449, 27 May 1907, Page 5

VARIOUS CABLES.

A BIG THEFT. NEW YORK, May 24. Edward Boeck, one of the defenders of the Pekin Legations against the Be xers, and afterwards supei intendent of the Chinese Court at the St. Louis Exhibition, through the influence of American millionaires, obtained from New York firms £50,000 worth of jewellery for sale amongst New York visitors. He pawned the jewellery and absconded. Boeck has now returned the pawn tickets, thus reducing the actual loss to £16,000.

IMMIGRATION: LONDON, May 24. Referring to immigration, Mr Bent, Premier of Victoria, says that he is indisposed to go so far as Canada in the direction of inducements to emigrate to Australia. He told Mr Deakin that Victoria was able to supply emigrants with a million acres if necessary. A WHITE AUSTRALIA. LONDON, May 24. Sir William Lyne, interviewed, emphasised the importance of peopling Australia with white men, preferably Britishers. A SURPRISE KNIGHTHOOD. LONDON, May 24. The King summoned Mr (now Sir John) Kirk, Secretary of the Ragged School Union, to Buckingham Palace, to congratulate him upon his work. Mr Kirk was surprised at being knighted upon the spot. CONTINENTAL DOCKS BETTER THAN LONDON'S. LONDON, May' 24. Mr Lloyd-George, President of the Board of Trade, has visited Antwerp and Hamburg. He is greatly impressed with the superiority of their dock equipment over that of London. INTER-IMPERIAL FREETRADE. LONDON, May 24. Sir Wililam Lyne, Commonwealth Minister for Trade and Customs, in a farewell interview, declared that Australia is not ripe for freetrade within the Empire. AUSTRALIA'S LABOUR PARTY. Received May 26, 4.54 p.m. LONDON, May 25.

Mr W. M. Hughes, addressing an enthusiastic Independent Labour meeting, at Sheffield, declared that the elections in Queensland only proved that the Labour Party had indulged in the luxury of fighting amongst themselves. They would be all the stronger at next election. The Labour Party in Australia never allowed fiscalism to divide it. The people were supporting them in larger numbers each year.