VARIOUS CABLES.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8545, 27 September 1907, Page 5

VARIOUS CABLES.

SOUTH AFRICA. Received September 26, 11.13 p.m. DURBAN, September 26. General Botha, Premier of Transvaal, interviewed by the Natal Mercury, favoured a unification instead of a federation in South Africa. He advocated the abolition of the existing legislatures, and the creation of one Parliament and one administration for the who!e of South Africa. TRAINING SHIP. Received September [26, 9.28 a.m. LONDON, September 25. The ship Pert Jackson is sailine for Australia in October. She carries twenty-four cadets, also fifty Warspite boys for training for ordinary seamen. BANK OF AUSTRALASIA. Received September 26, 9.13 a.m. LONDON, September 25. The Bank of Australasia's balancesheet shows deposits* totalling £16,622,96 C; cash securities, £7,466,102; bill?, £15,f40,9 0.

RADIUM. Received September* 26, 9.13 a.m. LONDON, fepiember 25. Professor Jolly has discovered rich .traces of radium ; mong stones extracted from the centre of the Simplon Tunnel. OIL FUEL. Received September 26, 8.30 a.m. LONDON, September 25. The Admiralty is surrounding with earthwork oil tanks, with a capacity of 2,000 tons, at Gosport.

(The Admiralty is alj>o constructing a four-million gallon oil fuel reservoir at Plymouth, also oil depots on the Medwav and at Lagos. Go=port is a fortified seaport town separated from Portsmouth by the mouth of the Portsmouth Harbour across which a floating bridge connects the two towns). BEHRING SEA FISHERY. Received September 26, 31.13 p.m. ST. JOHN'S, September 26. The Newfoundland Government has i&sued instructions designed to avert the exercise of Imperial authority dealing with the Behring Sea fishery. The instructions include the removal of colonial restrictions against local fisher folk living aboard American vessels, and restoring Americans to the same conditions existing before 1905. This decision is followed by the issue of an Imperial Order-in-Council giving legal effect to the modus vivendi for the present fishing season.

A CRIMINAL CHARGE. A BANKER SENTENCED. Received September 27, 12.11 a.m. LONDON, September 26. Sir George Arbuthnot, partner in the firm of Arbuthnot and Company, bankers, of Madras and London, was tried at Madras on a criminal char?e in connection with the firm's bankruptcy, and was sentenced to eighteen months' rigorous imprisonment. MARRIED AT A REGISTRY OFFICE. Received September 27, 1.11 a.m. LONDON September 26. The divorced wife of the former Crown Prince of Saxony, who is now the King of Saxony, was married at a Strand registry office to Signor Enrico Toselli, Professor of Languages.