VARIOUS CABLES.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8524, 30 August 1907, Page 5

VARIOUS CABLES.

UNITED STATES NAVY. Received August 29, 8.37 a.m. NEW YORK, August 28. There is an impression in Washington that President Roosevelt is sending the fleet to the Pacific in order to win support from the Pacific Coast States at next Presidential election. CANADIAN PURE FOOD LAW. Received August 29, 10.5 a.m. OTTAWA. August 28. The Canadian-food inspection law is now in operation. A DISPUTE SETTLED. Received August 29, 10.5 a.m. PRETORIA, August 28. Actions between the chairman and membeis of the Witwatersrand Native Labour Association and Mr J. B. Robinson, the Rand mining magnate, have been settled, Mr Robinson declaring that he did not impute anything derogatory to their personal honour and good faith in connection with his withdrawal from the Native Labour Association. Mr Robinson rejoins the association and Chamber of Mines. * (Mr Robinson seceded from the Witwatersrand Native Labour Association over the labour question, he holding that there was ample black labour available for work in the mines, and that there was no valid reason why the Chinese should not be repatriate". In a letter to a London paper, Mr Robinson accused his opponents of endeavouring to bolster up the native labour monopoly for their friends.)

VENEZUELA AND BELGIAN CREDITORS. Received August 29, 10.5 a.m. BRUSSELS, August 23. Venezuela has agreed to accept The Hague Tribunal's award condemning her to pay £400,0U0 to Belgian creditors. (Last month the Venezuelan Government declined to accept the award). MORENGA. Received August 29, 10.45 p.m. CAPETOWN, August 29. The rebel chief Morenga, who recently crossed into German SouthWest Africa, has returned to British territory. SEIZURE OF RUBBER. Received August 30, 12.17 a.m. GEORGETOWN, August 29. On August 18th Captain Calder, commanding the British Guiana frontier force, crossed the border near the Barima River, and compelled the Venezuelans, at the point of the revolver, to surrender four thouand pounds of Ballata rubber, said to have been obtained in a British forest. The Venezuelan Consul at Georgetown protested against armed invasion. The Governor of British Guiana has now expressad to the President of Venezuela regret at Captain Calder's action, and has stated that the seized rubber will be returned to the owner.