GENERAL CABLES.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9041, 17 March 1908, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES.

Received March 16, 11.35 p.m. LONDON, March 16. The "Spectator" considers that Messrs Lloyd - George, (President of the Board of Trade), and Winston Churchill are protectionists at heart, and are anxioas to form a new Liberalism on a basis of nationalising railways and canals, and development of afforestation in order to encourage Home industries, and counterbalance the natural fluctuations of the world of trade by means of bounties and other expedients. They are unwilling to adopt tariff reform lest they should be accused of stealing the Unionist thunder. Mr John E. Redmond, Nationalist M.P. for Waterford City, speaking at Manchester on the Education Bill, declared that contracting out would place the Catholic schools in an unfair position unless the grant was largely increased. After ten days' investigation, Mr Justice Eady, of the Chancery Division of the High Court, ordered the Rev. Mr Robins to be removed from the trusteeship of the Townshend heirlooms. The Marquis gave remarkable evidence respecting the sale of many heirlooms. The court ordered an enquiry, and condemned Robins to pay the cost of the heirlooms which have disappeared. . Dunedin has issued a quarter of a million 4 per cent, debentures at par. The money is for redemption purposes, and will be repayable in 1933. • .

The President of the Board of Trade (the Right Hon. D. LloydGeorge), speaking at Carnarvon, said the Patents Bill was already bringing into the country many foreign industries. He anticipated that they would soon provide employment for tens of thousands of British workmen. The "Daily Mail" states that the Beyer Company, with a capital of thirteen million 'sterling, and representing Elberfeld, Berlin, and companies in other places, have bought 24 acres in Cheshire, and will establish an aniline factory. OTTAWA, March 16.

Canada has decided to prohibit the landing of any person whose passage is paid by a charitable organisation or out of public moneys unless a permit is obtained. This step has been taken because a considerable number of British undesirables have been deported. BERLIN, March 15. The German Federal Council has sanctioned the scheme of Herr Dernberg, Director of German Colonial Affairs, to construct nine hundred miles of railwaj at a cost of seven and a-half millions sterling in the African colonies. Received March 17, 12.57 a.m. CAPETOWN, March 16. A memorial to the regiments raised in Cape Colony during the Boer war has been unveiled, here by the Governor. Received March 17, 12.16 a.m. PRETORIA, March 16. Sir James Fitzpatrick, ■' speaking here, denounced the new gold law as a stupendous monument of stupidity. He urged the Government to make a sincere declaration as to whether were favourable to separation, unification, or federation.