GENERAL CABLES.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10258, 9 June 1911, Page 3

GENERAL CABLES.

] United Press Association —riy Electric i Telegraph—Copyright. THE RECIPROCITY AGREEMENT. (Received June 8, 10.30 a.m.) LONDON, June 7. The Times says that Sir Wilfrid Lauder's motion to discuss the freedom of overseas dominions from existing treaties is manifestly not inspired so much by shipping consideration n-s by the difficulties created by *he Reciprocity Agreement, the ratification of which would compel Canada to extend the concessions granted t.*> the United States on twelve foreign Powers. I MAWSON'S EXPEDITION. (Received June 8, 9.40 a.m.) MELBOURNE, June 8. The Director of the Department of Terrestrial Magnetism at the Carnegie Institute, Washington, has offered to loan a complete set of magnetic instruments to Dr. Mawson's expedition. The offer is made conditional upon the securing of the services of Mr Norman Webb, of Christchurch, or of some other competent person. SELF-DENYING ORDINANCE. (Received June 8, 9.35 a.m.) j SYDNEY, Juno 8. | In order not to interfere with the I comfort of lady members, the Straw j Hat Workers' Union adopted a selfdenying ordinance, prohibiting smok- J ing during meetings. I The motion was moved and seconded by inveterate smokers with their pipes going at full blast. AFFAIRS IN MORROCO. J (Received June 7, 10.45 a.m.) I

FEZ, June 7. Anxiety is felt for the safety of six American missionaries at Mequinez. The Berbers are calling upon the people for a holy war. The Benintir tribe are following the custom usually adopted, when a tribe is in desperate straits, of bringing their daughters, bound, into the villages, carrying them on horses before them, and cutting their daughters' throats before the dwellings of the chiefs they wish to propitiate. TANGIER, June 7.' Moorish horsemen fiercely attackel General Monier's column for eight, hours at Raselma. They charged within a hundred yards in the face of a heavy rifle and machine gun fire, and suffered heavily. The French lost a surgeon-major and three soldiers, whilst thirteen men were wounded. EPIDEMIC OF DENGUE. • (Received June 8, 10.25 a.m.) SYDNEY, June 8. There is an epidemic of dengue fever in Suva. The Governor and Lady im Thurn are amongst the victims. Almost every business house »n the town is short handed as a result of the outbreak. U.S.A. PRESIDENCY. (Received June 8, 8.5 a.m.) NEW YORK, June 8. Mr Theodore Roosevelt has caused the announcement to be circulated of his cordial approval of President Taft's candidature for the Presidency in 1912. Mr Roosevelt, in an unmistakable manner, has informed President Taft that he does not intend to contest the Presidency. In view of this circumstance President Taft's friends l>elieve that his re-election is now assured. A considerable section of the Republicans is believed to favour Mr Roosevelt's nomination.

THE BAY OF WHALES. (Received June 8, 8.5 a.m.) LONDON, June 7. Captain Amundsen, in a letter to The Times, dated February 9th, gives'] his reasons for originally believing % that the Bay of Whales was produced by underlying land or rising ground. I This view, he says, was confirmed « when he saw the formations more clearly and sharply denned, and at the southern end distinctly discerned hills and valleys, indicating underlying land or shoals. The land here arrested the; course of a,mighty glacier, and forced it out) to either side. Captain Amundsen has christened the station established in latitude 78deg. 4.omin. Framheim. It is intended to establish the main depot in the eightieth degree, and a smaller one as far south as possible. Captain Amundsen, .in his letter, said that he hoped to reach latitude 83 with a smaller depot in the autumn, before the dark season came on.