YESTERDAY'S CABLES.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10149, 27 January 1911, Page 7

YESTERDAY'S CABLES.

The following items are supplied by the Commonwealth cable service: —lt is understood the Swiss management will authorise cities possessing freezing facilities under State control, to import frozen meat; but a permanent permit to import will not be granted-at present. The ConimonAvealth imports last year totalled £59,456,238, an increase over the previous year of £8,284,342 The exports were £74,437,027, an increase of £9,178,691. The Conference 'of Miners, sitting in London, resolved.,chat the Miners'. Federation. should contribute £3OO weekly to the Cambrian miners. Spasmodic .and ••.-violent; air tacks are occurring at Llarielly, including rough handling of. officials and stoning of residences. The Daily Mail's Biiluway6 correspondent reports that tha popular anger is accentuated by the publication of Lord Gladstone's private letter to a Rhodesian. official, stating that it was time Rhodesian women learned, to.lock their doors and windows at night. •'■.■.■."■- Owing to failure of the Helmsdale fisheries, the Duke of Sutherland is re-opening gold' diggings at Kiladonan. . , ••.'■•.

Dr J. H. Jowett, minister of; Carr's Lane Congregational- Church, Birmingham, has accepted the pastorate of Fifth-avenue Presbyterian: Church', New York. The emigration agents at London complain of the refusal of''the Victorian Government to accept agricultural labourers under the land settlement . scheme, unless possessed l of £IOO, which they claim inflicts hard-' ship, particularly on those who were loans which are now refused.

The Institute of Civil Engineers, London, considered papers by Halligan and Krig, of the Works, Department, Sydney, on. bar harbours and sand movements; also Russell Palmer's papers oh Fremantle harbour works'" Messrs Coghlan, Darling,and other eminent engineers participated in the 'interesting discussion which ensued. The Catholic Education Conference, sitting in. Sydney, has decided to celebrate the 24th May as Australia Day, by a counter-demonstra-tion to Empire Day. Speaking to the motion, Cardinal Moran said many champions of Imperialism and Empire Day were the avowed enemies of the Church: