VARIOUS CABLES.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8543, 25 September 1907, Page 5

VARIOUS CABLES.

VICTORIAN EXHIBITION. Received September 24, 5.33 a.m. LONDON, September 23. Newspapers publish a eulogistic notice of Victoria's excellent display of products at the Grocery Exhibition. JAPANESE ENGINEER ARRESTED.

Received September 24, 9.28 p.m. BERLIN, September 24. A Japanese engineer, supposed to be employed at the Tokio gasworks, has been arrested at Jena on a charge of offering bribes to obtain plans of the machinery of the Schott gasworks. BRITISH RAILWAY TROUBLE. Received September 24, 9.28 p.m. LONDON, September 24. The war chest of the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants totajs nearlv £400.000.

WELLINGTON, September 24^ A "scene" occurred in the Legislative Council this afternoon. The Hon. Wi Peru, the recently appointed Maori member, when speaking on the Statutes Repeal Bill got rather wide of the mark, and alluded to his previous connection with the Lower House. He said that when he was in the House ho was a man of boisterous disposition, and used to get angry. "Now/' he continued, "I have qualified myself to become a member of this Chamber, where all are gentlemen." After making a reference to the rights of the Maori he glared at the Hon. J. D. Ormond, and said: "Mr Ormond, you take care of them. If 3ou neglect them I will break your nose." After the Hon. J. Rigg had alluded to the matter, the Acting-Speaker (Hon. Mr Smith) ordered Mr Wi Pere to withdraw the remark, and after making a rambling statement he complied.