VARIOUS CABLES.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10279, 6 July 1911, Page 3

VARIOUS CABLES.

j •" ! LABOUR TROUBLES. THE SEAMEN'S STRIKE. • RIOTERSARRESTED. United Press Association—By Electrio Telegraph— Copyright. (Received July 5, 8.-5 a.m.) LONDON, July 4. The strikers in Glasgow incited a riot. The police dispersed them with baton charges. Many of the rioters were arrested. A CONFERENCE ARRANGED. (Received July 5, 8.5 a.m.) LONDON, July 4. The President of the Chamber of Sliipping and other influential London shipowners have agreed to meet a representative of the National Transport Workers' Federation to discuss the situation. SERIOUS DISTURBANCES. . (Received July 5, 10.15 a.m.) i "LONDON, July 4. The carters at Manchester, who are striking, are endeavouring to prevent the conveyance of all produce. Retailers are much inconvenienced, and there are great disorders in the wholesale market. At Shudehill the strikers, assisted by women, overthrew the produce' carte. The police dispersed the strikers, using their batons. Soldiers are hurrying to Shudehill, where the mob is completely out of hand. Rioters elsewhere overturned a lorry carrying reels of paper for the; evening paper. | The police and soldiers dispersed the j mob*. i COALMINERS' STRIKE. (Received July 5, 10.4 a.m.) OTTAWA, July 4. The Conciliation Board failed to { settle the British Colombia and Alberta coalminers' 6trike. SHORTAGE OF LABOUR. (Received July 5, 10.5. a.m.) SYDNEY, July 5. | The Trades' Hall authorities admit the shortage of labour in various industries at the present time, and claim that this U the result of labour legis- . lation. • ARBITRATION FAILS. (Received July 5, 10.55 a.m.) ADELAIDE, July 5. The proposed Arbitration in the Renmark fruitgrowers' strike has failed, the growers declining the men's demand to exclude piecework from the scope of the inquiry. SABOTAGE CONDEMNED. (Received July 5, 9.25 a.m.) PARIS, July 4. j M. Auguneux, an Independent Socialist, now Minister of Public Works, was warmly applauded for a speech he delivered in the Chamber of i Deputies in reprobation of Sabotage, i denouncing it as incompatible > with any sane political doctrine or theory. The Minister adds that he personally was determined to extricate the evil. i MOROCCO. GERMANY'S ATTITUDE. . ONE OF TRANQUIL EXPECTATION. United Press Association—By Electrio Telegraph—Copyright. { (Received July iS, 8.5 a.m.) j BERLIN, July 4.. : It ia announced that Germany's attitude in regard to Morocco and France is one of tranquil expectation. Germany hopes that her intervention will'lead to an exchange of views 1 between the Powers, thus clearing the situation. CONDEMNED BY ITALY. (Received July 5, 9.25 a.m.) ROME, July 4. The Italian newspapers strongly condemn the German intervention in connection with the Agadir incident. THE FRENCH FLEET. (Received July 5, 10 a.m.) PARIS, July 4. The First French Squadron, which has left Toulon to carry out firing practice, has arranged for constant

wireless communication with the Eiffel Tower, with a view to its possible despatch to Morocco. DISCUSSING THE SITUATION. (Received July 5, 9.25 a.m.) "" PARIS, July 4, France is discussing the Agadir incident with Britain and Russia. ANOTHER GERMAN WARSHIP. (Received July 5, 11.35 a.m.) BERLIN, July 4. The -cruiser Berlin sailed from Kiel on Saturday for Agadir. A RUSSIAN PROTEST. (Received July 5, 11.35 a.m.) , ST. PETERSBURG, July 4. The Novo© Vremya charges Germany with infringing the letter and spirit of the Algesiras Agreement and the Franco-German Convention. STATEMENT BY MR ASQUITTT. (Received July 5, 11.30 a.m.) LONDON, July 4. The Right Hon. H. H. Asquith, speaking in the House of Commons, said affairs in Morocco were seriously occupying the attention of tho Government, and that diplomatic communications were proceeding. THE RIVERINA. VICTORIA'S CLAIM. (Received July 5, 9.25 a.m.) SYDNEY, July 4. j Victoria's claim to the Riverina is 1 a revival of an old matter which caus- | od some feeling in political circles j here. There is rmall chance of Victoria succeeding. The letter making the claim suggests that the true construction of the Imperial Statute fixing the boundary between tho two States should be definitely settled, and invites the attention of the New South Wales Government to the manner in which this can best be done. FLUSHED WITH VICTORY. (Received July 5, 5.25, a.m.) MELBOURNE, July 4. The Government was inspired in making its claim to the Riverina by the victory which it obtained over South Australia in the recent boundary dispute relating to a stretch of territory on the eastern boundary. The matter is not taken very seriously here. In seme quarters it is looked upon as a revival of an old story with a view to obstructing the electoral issues at the forthcoming elections.