GENERAL CABLES.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9053, 31 March 1908, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES.

Received Match 30, 8.5 a.m. LONDON, March 29. Mr Ebenezer. Cay ford, one of the directors of Houlder Brothers, the well-known shipping firm, is dead. OTTAWA, March 29. The Canadian Pacific Railway Company is building two new larger and faster Atlantic steamers of the Empress class, and is establishing a weekly service. In the event of the Motherland's renewing the mail contract in connection with the East, new vessels will be built for the Pacific trade. Received March 30, 9.55 p.m. LONDON, March 30.. A hundred thousand "Old Believers" who settled in Roumania, and others who settled in Austria and the Balkans, desire to return to Russia row that freedom of conscience has been proclaimed. They will probably re-settle in ths Amur territory. Received March 30, 10.25 p.m. * LONDON, March 30. "The Times," referring to Mr Francis McComass' exhibition of water colours at the Carfax Gallery, states that the works of this young Sydney artist display very remarkable talent. The Archbishop of Brisbane, speaking at Veybridge, declared that the church needed power to govern herself. When the laity possessed the power they ought to have, and a definite legislative body existed whose decision the Bishop and churchwardens would respect, there would be efficiency in administration. '