VARIOUS CABLES.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8476, 2 July 1907, Page 5

VARIOUS CABLES.

NEW ZEALAND BOWLERS

Received July 1, 8.34 a.m. LONDON, June 30

The New Zealand bowlers beat Whitevale Club, Glasgow, by 45 to 26.

MISS CLARA BUTT. Received July 1, 8.34 a.m. LONDON, June 30. Miss Clara Butt (Mrs Kennerley Rumford) had an enthusiastic reception at her farewell concert in the Albert Hall, prior to leaving for Australasia. The Queen wrote regretting her inability to be present, and wishing Miss Butt success. (Miss Clara Butt comes to Austra-l lia and New Zealand under engage-V ment to Messrs J. and N. Tait. Her concert party will include, besides the famous prima donna and her husband (Mr, Kennerley Rumfoi'd). Messrs Frank Merrick, a favourite pupil of Leschetizky; Barre Squire, / a violinist, and brother of the famous 'cellist and composer, W. H. Squire; and as accompanist Arthur Godfrey, who is also known as the composer of a melodious comic opera, "Little Miss Nobody.")

DOMINION OF NEW ZEALAND,

Received July 1, 8.34 a.m. LONDON, June 30.

The Standard, the Globe, and other newspapers express the utmost satisfaction with New Zealand's new status. They discuss the geographical, political, and commercial conditions of the new Dominion, and trust that the change will further promote mutual goodwill among the outposts of the Empire.

FIRE IN A MEAT CARGO. Received July 1, 8.34 a.m. BUENOS AYRES, June 30. Meat worth fifteen thousand sterling, aboard the steamer Manchester City, Was boiled for tallow owing to it having been damaged by fire.

PEKIN TO PARIS xMOTOR RACE. Received July 1, 8.37 a.m. PARIS, June 30. Advice has been received that the French Tri-ear, a competitor in the Pekin to Paris motor race, was abandoned in the Gobi Desert, owing to exhaustion of the petrol. The drivers experienced great privations. They returned to Hankow on camels.

COLONIAL CONFERENCE AND ■ PREFERENTIAL TRAEE.

A TRADE UNION MANIFESTO

Received July 1, 10.23 p.nj. LONDON, July 1. Twenty-two members of the House of Commons belonging to the Trade union group have issued a manifesto headed "Colonial Conference and Preferential Trade." declaring "that it was time the British working man protested against the absurdities of some Colonial Rremiers. Although New Zealand's white population only equalled the population of the Birmingham district, and Australia's population was only half that of London their Premiers assumed to treat with Great Britain with forty millions as a nation with a nation, using threats if we refuse their demand. Yet Canada, which has made the most advance in nation importance, being represented by a statesman, disassociated herself from these demands. New Zealand demanded preference for her products, and manufactures, nol her foodstuffs or raw materials only, though knowing perfectly well that this cannot be given unless we alter our whole fiscal system and tax all foreign imports. Even a liberal estimate of the value of colonial preference is unable to show the increase in the present trade with the colonies to be beyond 10 to 15 per cent., affecting about quarter of 1 per cent, of the total British trade. As a result the cost of every necessary article consumed by the British workmen would be increased." . The manifesto ridicules the Premiers who supported the foolish proposition that a small rise in the price of wheat did not affect the price of bread, and quoted approvingly Professor Marshall's declaration that free trade was never more essential to Britain's prosperity than now. The manifesto sneeringly remarks thai, needless to say one of the chief objects of the Premiers is the welfare of the British workmen. Their anxiety is only equalled by that of the tariff reforming capitalist at Home. The manifesto refers to Mr A. Deakin's ingenious proposal to raise a common fund for imperial, but chiefly colonial, purposes, to which Great Britain would subscribe four and a-half millions and the colonies a few hundred thousands. The manifesto states that the British workmen do not think they are called to contribute to the maintenance of their children beyond the sea to this tune, nor are they to be entrapped by those who exploit imperial sentiment in the interest of tariff reform at their expense.

MEMORIAL TO FALLEN SOL-

DIERS AND SAILORS

Received July 1, 11.27 p.m. LONDON, July 1. His Majesty King Edward, accompanied by Queen Alexandra and the Prince of Wales will, to-day, open the Union Pack Club on Waterloo Road, erected to the memory oi' the soldiers and sailors who were killed in the Boer War.

CABLE NEWS.

United Piess Association—By Electric Telegrap'i Copyright,

FAST GOING.

Received July 1, 9 a.m. LONDON, June 30,

Edge, on a 60-horse power Napier machine, motored 1,581 miles in twenty-four hours (nearly sixty-six miles an our) on the Brooklands course, Weybridge.