VARIOUS CABLES.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8472, 25 June 1907, Page 5

VARIOUS CABLES.

VICTORIA'S RAILWAYS.

Received June 24. 8.58 a.m

LONDON, June 23.

Mr Bent, Premier of Victoria, has engaged Mr Charles H. Merz, consulting electrical to report on the electrification of the railways of Victoria. Mr Merz will sail for Melbourne in November.

KAISER TO VISIT ENGLAND,

Received June 24. 9.5 a.m

BERLIN, June 23

The German papers announce that Emperor William and the Empress have accepted King Edward's invitation to visit England in the autumn.

DEMONSTRATORS IMPRISONED,

Received June 24. 9.15 a.m. LISBON June 23

Two hundred demonstrators have been imprisoned in Caxias fortress since Wednesday last.

GARDEN PARTY AT WINDSOR. Received June 24, 8.50 a.m. LONDON, June 23. King Edward gave a garden party at Windsor to eight thousand five hundred (?) guests, including the Agents-General, Madame Melba, and the King of Siam. HAGUE PEACE CONFERENCE. Received June 24, 9.15 a.m. THE HAGUE, June 23. At the Peace Conference America is proposing a permanent International Arbitratibn tribunal, also tribunal meetings of the Peace Conference at regular intervals. DUKE OF DEVONSHIRE.

Received June 24, 11.40 p.m.

LONDON, June 24

The condition of the Duke of Devonshire, who is seriously ill, is more satisfactory, and he shows a further slight improvement. HOME RULE. Received June 24, 11.40 p.m. LONDON, June 24. Mr J. Redmond, Nationalist M.P. for Waterford City, speaking at New Ross, in connection with the ceremony of unveiling a memorial to the Wexford men who had fallen in the battle at New Ross in 1798, declared I that the principle of the nationality wherefore the men in 1798 fought, would never be surrendered. They might differ in methods, but all were united in demanding one .pbject, namely, the freedom of Ireland." She was the Empire's weakness, but if England was able to win her goodwill by a frank concession of freedom to the people that would be of more value to her than the goodwill of all the colonies of the Empire put together. The Wexford men told England that they hated her. They were as much rebels against her rule today as the men in 1798, and she could, and she would, change that hatred by granting freedom to Ireland and by nothing else. \J DECEPTION DIVULGED. Received June 25, 1.1 a.m. LONDON June 24. The Committee of Public Accounts strongly animadvert the conduct of j the Ayrshire Foundry Company in concealing by an electric welding a large fault in the rudder easting, afterwards built into the King Edward the Seventh. > An employee of the company, who had bean dismissed, divulged the deception^ The company are now bankrupt owing to the loss of Admiralty , orders.