VARIOUS CABLE

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8542, 24 September 1907, Page 5

VARIOUS CABLE

BRUCE ARCTIC EXPEDITION. . Received September 23, 11 p.m. CHRISTIANS, September 23. Dr. William S. Bruce's Scottish Arctic expedition has arrived safely at Tromsoe.

| BRITISH RAILWAYMEN. Received September 23, 10.3 p.m. LONDON, September 23. Several meetings of railwaymen supported the demand of the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants for recognition. Received September 24, 12.14 a.m. LONDON, September 23. SirC. B. McLaren, M.P. for Bosworth, in a speech to his constituents, supported the recognition of the Railway Servants' Society on the ground that organised labor benefited all parties. The newspaper Statist supports the recognition of the Society. JAPAN AND KOREA. Received September 23, 11 p.m. TOKIO, September 23. Prince Ito declares that Japan will not fcnnex Korea unless the Koreans show themselves unfriendly.

MAURETANIA'S SPEED TRIALS. Received September 23, 9.55 p.m. LONDON, September 23. The Mauretania established a speed of 26| ktiots in a series of runs. (The Cunard Company's i:e\v steamer Mauretania was launched at Wallsend on the Tyne last week.) RUSSIA SEEKING A COALING STATION. Received September 23, 10.3 p.m. NEW YORK, September 23. Russia is seeking to obtain a coaling station at the entrance of the Panama Canal. THE PATROCLUS. Received September 23, 9.55 p.m. LONDON, September 23. The Patrodus, which went ashore on the Devon coast, has been towed off. (The steamer Patroclus, from Brisbane and Sydney, with a general cargo, went ashore on the rocks o~i Portland Island, on the coast of Dorsetshire, during a fog, about ten days ago). STRIKERS RESUMING WORK. Received September 24, 1.17 a.m. ANTWERP, September 23. The strikers are gradually resuming work on the masters' terms.

JAPAN AND AMERICA. .Received September 24, 12.17 a.m. NEW YORK, September 23. Mr W. R. Hearst; in a signed article in the New York Evening Journal, declares that the United States does not want war with Japan, but it is conceivable, even probable, that Japan wants war will the United States. He adds* that Japan has come to regard war as a profitable enterprise. ANTI-ASIATIC MOVEMENT. Received September 24, 12.17 a.m. SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 23. When seventy-seven almost destitute Japanese miners arrived at Atlin, on the Yukon border, 300 whites drove them aboard the river steamer Gieaner, bidding the officers take the Japanese out of the country immediately. The Gleaner conveyed the Japanese to Whitehorse, when'.e they intended to land and turn them loose in the Skagway (United States) territory. The mine-owners had engaged them to continue work during the winter, which the whites refused. The British Columbian authorities are surprised at the expulsion of th? Jjparese inasmuch asjjjey belitved that the Oriental trouble problem was acute only in Vancouver.

WINNIPEG LABOUR CONGRESS. Received September 24, 1.10 a.m. OTTAWA. September 23. The Socialist element at the Winnipeg Labour Congress vainly strove to secure the adoption of a resolution urging that the unionists in Canada should not join the militia. THE AMERICAN FLEET. ReceivedJSepterr.ber 24, 12.14 a.m. NEW YORK, September 23. Mr W. R. Hearst's newspapers have joined the cry in favor of stationing the American Meet in the Pacific.