YESTERDAY'S CABLES.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10150, 28 January 1911, Page 7

YESTERDAY'S CABLES.

The gold imported by the Commonwealth last year was £1,031,139 ; the export £4.,.73&,14-7 .

"LTndepehdence .Beige" has obtained confirmation of the late King Leopold's plan to uud Germany to invade France.

The underwriters quote.7o percent, insurance on the s. s. Aotea. A contract on the "no cure no pay" system has (been made to.refloat;the vessel.

Sir Francis Hopwood has definitely vacated his position in the Colonial Office., where, since 1907, he occupied the position of Under-Secretary of .State for the Colonies.

An unsuccessful to refloat the s. s. Eastern has been made. The lighter wilfprobably be compelled to jettison 100 tons of cargo. The vossel .is aonsiclered safo'imless bad weather sets in.

William i died of starvation at Melbourne on Monday. A year ;ago he swallowed a quantity of flaked lye iin'xriistsike i'for:'A'sweetmeat. His throat gradually closed :: ancV he whs tunable to take • nourishment. Ho retfusetl: an. .- operation.

• President Taft-is preparing a mesi sage to Congress, 'dealing with Canft- | ttfian reciprocity. Flo •>. stated that in ; Washington strong opposition was ; likely to develop against the ratifica- ' tt'ion 'of the agreement. The principal opponents were New' England representatives, who believed their interests threatened. i ! Mr Harold Cox, Unionists Freei trader, is the unofficial candidate for the Cambridge University. He de~ ; clai'es that as long -as Mr Balfour's ; promise of the referendum is main- ] tained, he is prepared to support him j at any'bye-election as a'Unionist Tar- ! iff Reformer in preference -to Free \ Trade. ] The Department. of'lnternal Affairs, I Perth, 'lias informed peaH fisheries that, ; in future permits "for-;the intro- , /duction or re-engagement of inden- , turefl labour, w.oulU lapse "after two : years,-and would be renewed only on condition that the -divers and tenders i in the boats which were employed, 1 :are white men. The (resolution has , .caused (Consternation. . ■ j/ Sir George H/ Rcid - addressed the j . London Clutyubor of Commerce at the i meeting to 'celebrate the ••anniversary j of Australia, fie recounted the pasi.toral, agricultural and'financial pro;gres's! of Australia, ami -also Quoted ■ -Messrs Fisher and McGoweii's "state-- ;• ments wiili reference to the peopling of Australia. There was -,a -rcery large ; .assemblage, over which Lord Des- | borough presided. I'■ During rthe sitting of' €he CJommis'sion investigating Chinese immigra- ' tkxn, at Ottawa, Mr Joseph Martin, British Commissioner, charged the Liberal Party throughout '.British CqlomMa with '.wholesale corruption. He urged that Sir W. Laurier was primarily to 'blame for the graft which permeated every department of \ the Federal Government., .Conflicting evidence was given as to whether Mr TempLeman. tlifj Federal Minister; for Inland Revenue and Mines, lias stated confidentially that he desired the Royal Commission on Immigration might be stopped. Mr Templeman was summoned to give evidence on the point..