VARIOUS CABLES.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8556, 15 October 1907, Page 5

VARIOUS CABLES.

GERMAN TRUSTS. Received October 14, 9.56 a.m. BERLIN, October 13. Owing to threatened competition by German trusts, the Second Chamber of the Netherland States General, by 39 votes to 23, voted a subvention of a quarter of a million sterling for a Dutch line of steamships from Holland to Argentina, and Brazil.

AMALGAMATED SOCIETY OF RAILWAY MEN. Received October 14, 9.20 a.m! LONDON, October 13. A conference of the Amalgamated Society of Railwaymen will be held in Glasgow next year. The Society has appointed delegates to attend the adjourned Federation Conference at. Manchester.

THE GERMAN NAVY. ' Received October 14, 9.20 a.m. BERLIN, October 13. A Bill is being submitted in the Reichstag providing, for an increase of three million pounds in the annual expenditure on the navy. INDIAN EMIGRATION TO CANADA. Received October 14, 9.20 a.m'. BOMBAY, October 13. Despite official warnings, Indian emigration to Canada continues. UNIVERSAL SUFFRAGE. WOMEN AND PARLIAMENTARY SEATS. Received October 14, 9.53 a.m. BERLIN, October 13. The Dutch Government proposes to modify the Constitution in order to establish universal suffrage with votes for women, and provide for the eligibility of women to sit in Parliament.

CYPRUS. Received October 14, 9.55 p.m. A THEN?, October 14. Mr Winston Churchill informed a Greece deputation at Lanaca that there is no prospect of Britain handin o- Cyprus to Greece. A WARSHIP RE-COMMIS-SIONED. Received October 14, 11.48 p.m. LONDON, October 14. The warship Encounter has been re-commjssioned for the- Australian waters. The Dido will convey her new crew to Colombo. THE LATE QUEEN VICTORIA. Received October 14, 11.55 p.m. LONDON. October 14. Lord Rosebery, in a speech of great eloquence, umeibd a statue of the late Queen Victoria at Leith.