VARIOUS CABLES.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10277, 4 July 1911, Page 3

VARIOUS CABLES.

- NEW ZEALAND'S DREADNOUGHT. LAUNCHED AT GLASGOW. LADY WARD "PERFORMS THE CEREMONY. By Electric Telegraph—Per Press Assoication.—Copyright.) (Received July 3, S.o a.m.) LONDON, July 2. Eight thousand 'spectators witnessed the launch of the battleship "New Zealand" at the Fairfield Works, Glasgow. Ladjy- Ward performed the christening ceremony. The guests included Mr Morris, Premier of Newfoundland, Sir Jas. Mills, Mrs and Miss Seddon, Mr .Palliser, and Sir W. and Lady Russell. > There was a large contingent of New Zealand visitors. Lady Ward out the cord, saying, "I name you 'New Zealand.' " As the vessel glided into the water she added, "God protect her. May she never be called to engage j in battle, but if otherwise I pray ' that victory may be hers." . j Sir Joseph Wiard, Bart., in a I •speech, "said lie lioped that those present would realise, as he did, that the launching of the "New Zealand" was a proof that the peoples of Britain and of the Dominion overseas were one in ambition, on© in sentiment, one in kith and kin. The launch of that battleship helped tthem to realise that ithere could be no division wnen the time of trial came. "The people of New Zealand," Sir Joseph Ward added, "had found the money unmurmuringly, knowing that defence an. any part of the Old World was their defence." Mr Gracie, representing the builders, said the vessel was an emphatic token of New Zealand loyalty and devotion. He presented Lady Ward with a casket containing the axe with which the cord was ,cut. PATRIOTIC SPEECHES. (Received Monday, at 8.5 a.ni,) LONDON, July 2. Sir Joseph Ward, Bart., speaking ait a-subsequent reception, said the Dominions overseas wished to he ne- 5 cognised as partners of the Motherland in the strictest sense. Although the Imperial Conference had been unable to accept his idea of an Imperial Council, the cementing process was proceeding, and tiue necessity was growing for some sort of Council of Defence, above party and clear of all local necessities at Home and abroad. Lord Plunket, ex-Governor of New Zealand, said that they had launched' not merely a •warship, but ike em- , bodiment of a new epoch in thear ' naval history, w,hich testified to the fine Imperial spirit w-hich existed. New Zealanders, like .Australians-, were not afraid to convpulsorily train their sons in military service. . ,' Sir Joseph Ward handed a copper plate from the colleges and schools of New Zealand to the Fairfield Company. MOROCCO. GERMAN TROOPS AT AGADIR. v (Received July 3, 8.5 a.m.); MADRID, Sunday. It is officially reported that five hundred troops have disembarked at Agadir. FRANCE A.IYD GERMANY. j PAINED SURPRISE. ■';',. (Received July 3, 8.5 a.m.) ""PARIS, July 2. ' M. .de Selves hafc informed Baron v»ii Sohoeitt, the German Ambassador in France, that public opinion will be painfully surprised ; at Germany's action- in Morocco. He added that he regretted that an obstacle had been placed in the way of the friendly conversations desired by both countries concerning Morocco. Mi de Selves later received , M. } Jules Cambori, French* Ambassador , in Berlin, who is greatly surprised j at Germany? s action', describing it as I totally unexpected. A DIRECT CHALLENGE: (Received July 3, 10.25 a.m.) LONDON, July 2. The Observer notes itihat Aralla is within the Spanish sphere, and that the occupation of Agadir is a direct; challenge to France. A BOLT, FROM THE BLUE. (Received July 3, 10.25 a.m.) , PARIS, July 3. Within an hour/of the semi-omoial announcement that the Franco-Span-ish differences respecting Morocco had (been 'settled, mew® of tfoa German intervention came as "a holt from the blue." a german point of . .;.:".;. ;..-„-' view., . ,- ■■■,..... (Re'ceivted July 3,' 1Q.25 a.m. ; , . BERMN, June 2.' ( . The Eoehiiisohe Zeitung states : that, largo cultivated ittract9 in the vicinity of Agadir, and extending far into the" hinterland, belong to German firms. Tne property of one alone equals the isize of a principality. Another' firm employs 'owe hundred and twenty men, including sixty commercial agents, iwho are German proteges. German trade in Southern Morocco has lately greatly extended.' The ibulk of such goods, though ap-

pearing in the statistics as British, are imported and exported by German firms via England. The paper adds that Germany is also considerably interested in mining in the hinterland. A VOTE OF CONFIDENCE. (Received July 3, 9.30 a.m.) PARIS, July 2. The Chamber, by 367 votes to 173, expressed confidence in M. Oaillaux. EARTH TREMORS. CAUSE A PANIC. PERSON mES~OF FRIGHT. (Received July 3, 8.5 a.m.) NEW"YORK, July 2. Earthquakes occurred in Central California and Western* Nevada. The damage was trivial. A panic seized the citizens in San Francisco and Santa Rosa, and they made a peli-mell rush from all large buildings. ' The San- Francisco telephone ."nd telegraph operators fled from tl r posts, rtihe services were suspended until it "was realised tQiat the danger was past. The judge, jury and attorneys sitting An 'the State Court in Carson City fled from the Courthouse, fearing its collapse. Reno experienced the shock.