CONDENSED CABLES.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10056, 30 May 1910, Page 5

CONDENSED CABLES.

LONDON, May 29, A circular has been issued warning litters and ironworkers that openings for their trades at present are scarce in Sydney, and unlikely to improve for some time. Th.3 R.M.S. Orsova took out seven hundred third class passengers to Australia. Many of them were assisted, including abou*; a hundred agricultural, and seventy female dnmestics for Wesir-ilia. Tha Huddersfkld Chamber of Commerce has decided to urge the Government to strive to induce Japan to reduce the proposed tariff on woollen worsted and cutton goods. Some of the duties equal 400 per cent. The Conciliation Committee, representing all parties in tho'House of Commons, has prepared a Bill, supported by both front and back benches, enacting women's parliamentary suffrage on the baais of the existing Local Government Board Register. As a sequel to the Whitehaven colliery disaster, nine hundred workers in the pit adj lining the ill-fated colliery have decided to cease work in a fortnight. They allege the appearance of black damp. Though 92 per cent, of the Federation of Master Cotton Spinners are in favour of a 5 per cent, reduction in wages, tha employers, not wishing fur a period of industrial strife at tha beginning of the new reign, have decided to refrain from taking action for three months. The British Empire League has started a movement to raise £3,000 to erect a monument in London to the memory of Captain Cook. The treasurer of the movement is Lord Brassey.