VARIOUS CABLES.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8451, 30 May 1907, Page 5

VARIOUS CABLES.

SUBSIDY WITHDRAWN.

Received May 29, 8.55 a.m. PARIS, May 28

Owing to the withdrawal of the subsidy, the Messageries Maritimes has ceased its regular steam services from Bordeaux to Senegal, Brazil and La Plata. France will now pay Elder, Dempster and Co., and the Pacific Royal Mail line £60,000 per annum for carrying the mails. COLONIAL BOWLERS AT HOME. Received May 29, 8.55 a.m. LONDON, May 28. The New Zealand bowlers defeated , Streatham Constitutional by 48 points' to 22. Three rinks of Australians defeated Streatham by 74 to 45. ACT OF VANDALISM. Received May 29, 8.30 a.m. BERLIN, May 28. The great bell Savoyarde, subscribed by the people of Saxony for the Church of the Sacred Heart at Montmartre (a quarter of Paris) has been irretrievably cracked by vandals. It cost several thousand pounds sterling. WELCOME TO GENERAL BOTHA. Received May 29, 9.42 p.m. CAPETWN, May 29. General Botha, replying to a Municipal welcome at Capetown, said he firmly believed that the British Government were encouraging by every endeavour to build in South Africa a strong united people, similar to the Canadians and Australians. He had been unable to go further at the Conference than he did until the Transvaal had fully discussed the question of preference. The Liberal Association presented an address applauding General Botha and Sir Wilfrid Laurier for preventing the Conference taking hasty and ill-considered action regarding preference, Imperial defence and an Imperial Council. "THE GOOSE THAT LAYS THE GOLDEN EGGS." Received May 29, 9.6 a.m. . LONDON, May 28. Lord Rothchild, interviewed, said that President Roosevelt's attack on the railways in America, the income tax and other problems in France, and the socialistic movement in England, were killing the goose that lays the golden eggs. ILL-TREATMENT OF BLACKS. Received May 29, 8.55 a.m. LONDON, May 28. The Rev. Mr Smith and the Rev. Crowe, of Perth, are attending-the Assembly of the Church of Scotland. The Rev. Mr Crowe described the condition of things in the north-west of Western Australia as shameful, because white men were dragging the blacks down. Sometimes the conduct of whites rendered missions to the heathen impossible.