VARIOUS CABLES.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10275, 30 June 1911, Page 3

VARIOUS CABLES.

j United Press Association—By Elec- : tiic Telegraph —Copyright. THE RECIPROCITY BILL. RETURNED TO COMMITTEE. (Received June 29, 8.55 a.m.) WASHINGTON, Juno 28. The defeated Penrose motion proposed that the Reciprocity vote be taken on July 24th, the wool vote on July 26th, and the Free List Bill vote on July 28th. The reason Senator Penrose was defeated is believed to lie in the intention of the Democrats to pass the Wool and Farmers' Free List Bills before Reciprocity, thus compelling President Taft to accept them or lose Reciprocity. The Reciprocity Bill advanced a | stage in a remarkable manner. j While the Senate Executive was in session for fifteen minutes, Mr Sherman, finding no one ready to speak, announced that the Bill would be reported from the Committee of the whole to the Senate. I The Bill actually passed that stage ! before the members had realised what was happening. There were angry protests, > as the Committee stage precluded the possibility of a vote on the measure. Senator Penrose finally acceded to the Bill returning to the Committee stage.

SHIPPING STRIKE. CREWS AT LIVERPOOL ABANDON VESSELS. ■'• (Received June 29,~9.50 a.m.) LONDON, June 28. Four thousand National Union dock labourers at Liverpool struck to secure recognition of the Union, and as a protest against the employment of non-unionists. , All crews in port thereupon abandoned their vessels. An aggregate of nine thousand dockers and seafarers are idle, and shipping is completely paralysed. Three thousand dockers and one thousand seamen at Manchester, and seven hundred men handling timber at Hartlepool, have struck. There is a great accumulation of fish, butter, and eggs at Hull, and nourmillers are short of grain. ( THE LONDON OWNERS. (Received June 29, 10.40 a.m.) LONDON, June 28. The conference of shipowners in London favours an increase in wages, but declines to recognise the Seamen's Unions. DEMANDS CONCEDED. (Received June 29, 10.40 a.m.) LONDON, Juno 28. The Allen, Nelson and Pacific shipping line's at Liverpool have conceded all the strikers' demands, including those of the dockers. The Board of Trade will intervene at Hull. ' RIOT IN BRADFORD. . POLICE STONED. ' * . (Received June a.m.) LONDON, June 28. j Several hundred Bradford woolcombers broke into a mill, and stopped ! the machinery. J The police intervened, and stones were thrown. The'police used truncheons. SHORTAGE OF WORKERS. (Received June 29, 10;10 a.m.) SYDNEY, June 28. A country coach builder, giving I evidence before the Labour Supply*. Commission, stated that last week he • refused £4OO worth of orders because I he was unable to obtain skilled labour. J THE CANADIAN ELECTIONS. CONSERVATIVE~POLICY CUT-. LINED. (Received June 29, 8.5 a.m.) OTTAWA, June 28. Mr Borden, whilst campaign >ag m the prairie provinces, outlined the Conservative policy. If retun ed to power at the coming elections, he said, the Conservative Pary will favour preferential Empire trade with a common defence scheme, the referendum on all great national questions, reform of land grants to syndicates, and abolition of bonuses on growing industries with.tariff protection, instead. The Party's\ reiterated, intention is to fight feprocity to the bitter end.

DYNAMITE OUTRAGE. THE LOS ANGELES CASE. (Received June 29, 8.55 a.m.). NEW YORK, June 28. With a view to securing Mrs Ortio MoManigaPs evidence on behaif of the prosecution in the "Los Angeles Timer," dynamiting case, detective--* confronted her with her husband. The woman swooned, and emerged from the state hysterical. The detectives say they hoped the 'husband would induce his wife to abandon the defence,, Th.3 defending attorney created a violent scene, subsequently asserting that the detectives were hounding the woman for their own purposes. The woman refused to testify.