VARIOUS CABLES.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8456, 5 June 1907, Page 5

VARIOUS CABLES.

CUSTOMS REGULATIONS. Received June 4, 9.42 p.m. NEW YORK, June 4. The amended United States Customs regulations agreed upon with Germany will become effective on July Ist. The changes in the present irritating system of Customs administrations will apply not only to importations from Germany, but to all countries equally. NEW ZEALAND BOWLERS. Received June 4, 11.48 p.m. LONDON, June 4. Hove beat the New Zealand bowlers by 55 to 28. MARITIME CUSTOMS AT DALNY. Received June 4, 8.23 a.m. PEKIN, June 3. "* A Chinese Maritime Customs will be etablished at Dalny (the business quarter of Port Arthur) on July Ist, similar to that in operation! at Kiaochau, which is leased by Germany. JAPANESE WARSHIPS. Reeeived June 4, 8.23 a.m. LONDON, June 3. The Japanese warships Tsukuba and Chimose have arrived at Sheerness. The .officers and crew were feted. THE FALL IN CONSOLS.' Received June 4, 8.48 a.m. LONDON, June 3. The Statist, discussing the fall in I Consols, says the steady redemption ( of the public debt at the present rate ' ought in three years to raise the price of consols to par. The first cause of the stagnation was the late Government's failure to make the sinking fund effective. The second cause was uncertainty respecting the Rand gold mining industry. A third cause was the delay of joint stock banks to accumulate adequate reserves. NATAL REBELS. Received June |4, 8.23 a.m.SZIZ PIETERMARITZBURG, June 3. "~' Twenty-five Natal rebels, ringleaders of the late Natal rebellion, have been sent to the ( island of St. Helena to complete their sentences. MARGARINE AND THE PUBLIC INTEREST. Received June 4, 8.23 a.m. LONDON, June 3. The City of London workhouses are using margarine instead of butter, in the interest of. ' |he rate- , payers. ' " " (The Progressives were blamed for extravagance in the administration of the poor law. At the last elections of Poor Law Guardians,, the Moderates or Municipal Reformers, running on the economy ticket, replaced them.)

SUGAR IN WINL'. Received June 4, 8.23 a.m. PARIS, June 3. Two hundred thousand people participated in an anti-Government demonstration at Nimes, eighty miles from Marseilles, on account of a Ministerial Bill. This measure prohibits the use of sugar which will enable wine of a lower alcoholic strength to compete with the stronger wine produced in the South of France; but it does not touch adulteration from watering, blending, or chemical treatment. BILLIARDS. Received June 4, 8.26 p.m. LONDON, June 3.

Reece made a break of 40,001 unfinished, including 19,974 anchor cannons, against Chapman, at Birmingham.