VARIOUS CABLES.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8476, 1 July 1907, Page 5

VARIOUS CABLES.

1 BIG STEAMER ON THE CLYDE. LONDON, June 28. : The Cunard liner Lusitama steamed to Clydebank from Greenock. The Clyde has been dredged to a depth of 34 feet at high water. The Lusitama drew 294 feet. MR EPPS' ESTATE. LONDON, June 28. The estate of the late Mr James Epps, cocoa manufacturer, has been proved at £700,000. BRITISH HAY CROP. LONDON, June 28. Rains are threatening the British hay crop. The Board of Agriculture has issued circulars calling the attention of farmers to the advantages of ensilage. ROYALTY AND INVENTION. LONDON, June 28. The King spent a long time watching Mr Gillies' milking machine at the Lincoln Agricultural Show. He enquired closely into its workings, and said the invention ought to succeed. The Royal Agricultural Society's finances have been improved by the show, which is a great success. ANTI-JAPANESE AGITATION. Received June 30, 4.40 p.m. SAN FRANCISCO, June 29. The Board'of Police Commissioners have refused to renew permits to five Japanese to conduct registry offices, and have also refused new permits to two Japanese. Received June 30, 4.40 p.m. LONDON, June 29. The New York correspondent of ( The Times describes the action as contemptible and an attempt to prevent a large number of inoffensive well-behaved, hard-working domestics obtaining a The present move may prove more serious than the school question. The Japanese made an appeal in connection with treaty rights. The Board replied that treaty rights aie subject to the laws enacted under the general police powers of the State concerning police and sanitary regulations.

SINKING OF MINE STOPPED. • Received June 30, 4.15 p.m. CAPETOWN, June 29. The sinking of the Hercules mine, in the East Rand, has stopped. Had the work been continued the reef would have been cut in 190 S. TIME-EXPIRED CHINESE. Re:eived June 30, 4.15 p.m. CAPETOWN. June 29. Eight hundred time-expired Chinese left the Rand, yesterday, homeward bound.