GENERAL CABLES.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10289, 18 July 1911, Page 3

GENERAL CABLES.

ALLEGED FRAUDS

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(Received July 17, 8.5 a.m.) WASHINGTON, July 16. Mr James Wickersliam, member of Congress for Alaska, laid a charge before tho Judiciary Committee of the House against G. Wickersham, Attor-ney-General, of deliberately permitting the Statute of Limitations to elapse against an Alaska syndicate's ago.it:- \vh i defrauded the Govemlneat through perjury. The amount involved is £IO,OOO. The Committee ordered an inquiry. the Attorney-General to produce all documentary evidence in his possession. The alleged fraud is in connection with coal contracts. The AttorneyGeneral :s said to have received evidence and to have failed to act thereon until the expiry of the statutory time.

The syndicate is said to comprise prominent English and American financiers. BRITAIN AND JAPAN.

(Received July 17, 9 a.m.) BERLIN, July 16. Tho "Tageblatt" compliments Sir Edward Grey on cleverly solving the problem of the renewal of the Alliance, inasmuch as Britain and Japan are able to conclude general arbitration treaties with- Russia, China, or any other Power. There is very little left of the Allience as it existed hitherto, says the paper. Perhaps Japan has been guided solely by the desire to keep the British money market open. The "Vossische-Zeitung" says that the friendship between Britain and Japan remains but an obligation to render help pierced through and through. The "Tages Zeitung" attributes the changes in the treaty to*the presisufo by the Overseas-Dominions on the Motherland, and adds: "The results constitute success of far-reaching importance for America, which is becoming a second centre of a mighty British State system."

THE CANADIAN SECTIONS

. (Received July 17, 9.35 a.m.) LONDON, July 16. The Canadian sections of the AngloJapanese, commercial treaty have been, prolonged for two years. THE MOROCCAN CRISIS. (Received July 17, 8.45 a.m.) BERLIN, July 16. An inspired statement published in the Koelnishe Zeitung to the effect that Germany may possibly accept compensation outside Morocco, has raised vehement pan-German protests.

MOORISH TROOPS. j ('Received July 17, 8.45 a.m.) ' ; ' TANGIER, July 16. ■ Kadd Mtugui, who is at Marrakess, on behalf of the Sultan Mulai Bafid, has'sent eight hundred horsemen to Agadir to maintain security and order. ALLEGED TERMS. , (Received July 17, 8.45 a.m.) ■ ~~PARIS, July 16. Tho Figaro's Berlin correspondent states'that Germany renounces any territorial claim in Morocco, but insists on German industrial and financial participation in railways and other economic concessions. I The Echo de Paris mentions an unconfirmed report that Germany seeks the cession of important territory 'n French Congo. - SPANISH ACTIVITY. ■ . I (Received July 17, 8.45 a.m.) j : TANGIER, July 16. J The Maghzen's military convoy, < while proceeding to Tangier to procure clothing, was unable to pass Al- 1 cazar, and returned, as Spaniards wished tqdisarmtheescort. GOVERNMENT AND LORDS. (Received July 17, 9,30 a.m.) LONDON, July 16. The Government has resolved to reject all the Lords' amendments to the Parliament Bill. Sir J. Simon, speaking at Walth&mstow, said the Lords-had. rejected the Plural Voting Bill, but 'ohe Liberals were going to carry it by means of tho Parliament Bill. Mr. Tim Healy, speaking at 'Cork, said it was exceedingly unfair to' dock fourpence a week from the Irish labourers' miserable wages for the purpose of national insurants, as he would never get it back. It would go' to relieve Mr Lloyd-Ge nge's friends in the congested urban areas in Britain.

MYSTERIOUS TRAGEUy, (Received July 17,'9.40 a.m.). . r ,. SYDNEY, July 17. A mysterious tragedy occurred in Scott Street, Newcastle, in Iroad daylight yesterday, when Charles McGuire, alias Michael Daley, was shot dead. Nobody is known to 'live witnessed the deed. Thomas Jones and George Smith, who were standing near the dead i an, have been arrested on a charge :>f vagrancy. Another man, the owner of 1 ho revolver used, states that Jones aud Smith visited him for Jnak. Ho afterwards missed the .revolver, and subsequently found it on the footpath near deceased. . Smith \vo~s deceased's companion.