VARIOUS CABLES.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8548, 4 October 1907, Page 5

VARIOUS CABLES.

SPOILING THE SYNDICATES. Received October 3, 10.10 a.m. OTTAWA, October 2. The Government of Ontario has declined to sell an American syndicate a million acres northwards of the Hudson's Bay watershed. The pri-:e offered was a million dollaro, which was double the price charged to settlers.

CHEAP POSTAGE. A UNITED STATES PROPOSAL. Received October 23, 8.20 a.m. NEW YORK, October 2. The United States Government is nsgotiating with Great Britain to charge a penny per ounce for letters. If successful, it will try the same plan with other countries which have direct steamship communication with the United States. TROUBLE IN THE BALKANS. Received October 3, 8.20 a.m. VIENNA, October 2. Austria and Russia have instructed their representatives at Belgrade, Sofia, and Athens that neither Servia, Sofia, nor Greece shall obtain territorial advantage from the action of hands who are in the habit of raidiiig Macedonia. It is intended to secure the extinction of these bands, and the Porte's co-operation in securing reform will be asked for. This step is the outcome of King Edward's recent visit to the Continent. CHINESE ON THE RAND. Received October 3, 10.54 p.m. PRETORIA, October 3. Under 200 out of 13,000 Asiatics in the Transvaal have registered under the new registration ordinance. AM-ERIGA'-S NAVALi POLICY. Received October 3, 10.54 p.m. NEW YORK, October 3. Speaking at St. Louis before an audience of 10,000, President Roosevelt said that unless America was prepared to abandon the Monroe Doctrine, and the Panama' Canal, and be content with the role of a weak and timid nation, she must steadily build and maintain a great fighting navy. THE MOST FAVOURED TREATMENT. Received October 3, 11.15 p.m. LONDON, October 3. Reuter states that the newspaper Vossiche Zeitung learns that at the next session of the Reichstag a Bill will be introduced authorising the Fede'ral Council to accord Britain and her colonies the most favoured treatment for a further term of years. The paper adds-: "Whether the Council will be in a position to make use of this right to the same extent as hitherto must depend upon the degree to which the new Australian tariff affects German imports as compared with those of the Motherland."