YESTERDAY'S CABLES.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10147, 25 January 1911, Page 7

YESTERDAY'S CABLES.

Sir George Rcid is negotiating with the Swiss Minister regarding the introduction of frozen meat into Switzerland. The Express states that H.E.H. the Duke of Connaught will be Regent while the King is in India, hence his being Viceroy of Canada is impossible. A Bill will be introduced into the House of Representatives at Melbourne, next session, authorising the construction of a Port Agusta to Kalgoorlie railway. Figaro says that in the event of the Flushing fortifications being proceeded with, France, Russia, Britain and Belgium will withdraw from the Hague Conference. Owing to the recent »judgment in the Osborne case. Mr Justice Nevill has allowed the South "Wales Miners' Federation to apply compulsory Parliamentary levies totalling £14,000 to strike-pay and other non-political purposes. ' ' * f The Financial News, in a eulogistic /jartjcle on the finances- of yiotbria, states that public and private finance isiriiifctielva somid'condition£i;ha:tAdditional taxation for purposes of defence and immigration will be scarcely felt. / The Greeks of New York held a mass meeting to.protest against the oppression of the Cretans by the Ottoman Empire and to ask the. President to notify the Powers to prevent this tyranny. They predict a revolution , that will cost Turkey millions. ,'>. A train of coal trucks got out of control at Adamston, near Newcastle- . and'crashed into a "dead-end;'* The locomotive left the rails and toppled j over the fence alongside the line. I Two trucks were telescoped and) smashed to matchwood. The driver ] and fireman jumped immediately be- j fore the crash and both are uninjured. Major-General Hoad, before the Decentralisation Commission, declared that New South Wales disclosed strategical weakness, as the only railway communication between the north and south was dependent on the line between Sydney and Newcastle, which was liable to attack and,interrivption. Ip was of. grave importance to pwvide alternative connections, more remote jirpm possible-'attack. v , ■..,' Judge French, a member ofthe New,Hebrides Condominium Court,' denies, due to laxity or favouritism on his., part. The sale of alcohol and weapons to natives, would cease only when the joint Court has a means of visiting all the islands with facility. He hoped the' French and British Governments woidd come to an arrangement £6 sup- j ply the Court with a special vessel to ':?• make frequent circuits.