VARIOUS CABLES.
THE VETO CRISIS
(Received August 5, 8.5 a.m.)
LONDON, August 4
It is believed that the Government will proceed with the Parliament Bill in the Lords without the creation of additional Peers. Ministers expect to lie able to muster sufficient supporters to outvote the Earl of Halsbury and his supporters.
AMERICAN TARIFF,
(Received August 5, 8.5 a.m.)
WASHINGTON, August 4. The Democratic Tariff Bill, which received tho .support of the "insurgent" Republican Senators, was caried by an overwhelming majority in the House of Representatives. Tho Bill cuts down the tariff on cotton manufactured goods from 48 to 27 per cent ad valorem. The Democrats are planning to carry a Wool Bill over the Presidential veto by securing the necessary Senatorial majority.
EMPIRE TIES.
(Received August 5, 9.15 a.m.)
LONDON, August 4. Lord Haldane, Secretary for War, speaking at Oxford, said few persons supposed that the United States would have remained under English centralised Government, even though George the Third had not been foolish. A similar difficulty may arise in the cases of Canada, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa. If Canada develops into a country with eighty millions of people, can she, asked Lord Haldane, remain under any sort of written or rigid system ? All depended on the elasticity of the system, and the lightness of the rein of common government.
BOILER EXPLOSION
SIX PERSONS KILLED,
(Received August' 5, 8.5 a.m.)
BERLIN, Attest 4. The explosion of a boilsr wrecked cement works at Hambarg. Six persons wero killed.
COTTON CROP,
ALL PREVIOUS RETURNS EXCEEDED.
(Received August 5, 8.5 a.m.)
NEW YORK, August 4. The American cotton crop is officially forecasted to exceed all previous records. The estimated value of the crop is a thousand million dollars (over £2OO, 000,000).
SERIOUS FIRES
OUTBREAK IN A VILLAGE.
(Received August 5, 9.25 a.m.)
BUDAPEST, August 4. By a fire in the village of Runatopova one hundred and ten houses were destroyed, together wi.th much corn arid a number of catle. Three hundred people are homeless.
FIVE SHOPS DESTROYED,
(Received August 5, 10 a.m.)
SYDNEY, August 5
A fire at Bangalovv, 350 miles north of Sydney, destroyed five shops, doing damage to the amount of £6,000.
AUSTRALIAN CADETS
(Received August 5, 1.20 a.m.)
LONDON, August 4. Field-Marshal Lord Roberts inspected the Australian Cadets at the Crystal Palace. Major P. N. Buckley, Australian Military Adviser in London, represented the Commonwealth. Lord Roberts commended the smartness of the cadets' uniform, and their precision in handling arms. He' presented them with Sir Charles Wakefield's cup for their shooting at Bisley, and als:> presented Major wynne with a Roberts medal for each boy, together with an autograph photo and a copy of his book, "Forty-one Years in India." Major Wynne presented Lord Roberts, on ...behalf of the boys, with; an inkstand made from Broken Hill silver* •arid mounted on Australian hardwood,
AERIAL FLIGHT.
ACROSS THE ENGLISH CHANNEL
(Received August 5, 1.20 p.m.)
PARIS, August 4, M. Vedrines, who was second in the Daily Mail thousand mile air race, monoplaned from Hendon, London, across the English Channel, via Dieppe, at the rate of sixty miles an hour. He landed safely at IssylesMolyneaux, near Paris.
NEW HEBRIDES
STATEMENT BY FRENCH COMMISSIONER.
(Received August 5, 10.10 a.m >
; SYDNEY, August •">. : .'M. Martin, French Resident Commissioner in the New 7 Hebrides, has arrived here-, en foute.>fpr France. ,He states that affairs/in the Sraup are going on , smoothly, and tbers is no friction. He denies absolutely Bishop Wilson's charges in regard to the sale of liquor to natives, and that justice is almost unobtainable wuere outrages are perpetrated on natives.
LABOUR TROUBLES
THE DOCKERS' STRIKE,
(Received August 5, 8.30 a.m.) LONDON, August 4. A large force of striking dockers at Belfast attacked tho carts conveying goods from the quays. The vehicles were overturned, and the goods scattered on the streets. An agreement has been signed end-
ing the Liverpool strike. It concedes recognition of tho dockers' union, and union hours of pay.
THE SUGAR TROUBLE
(Received August 5, 10.10 a.in )
SYDNEY, August 5. A conference of the Waterside Workers, Federated Seamen's, and Federated Carters' and Drivers' Unions, has been called, to be held at Brisbane on Wednesday next, to discuss Matters in connection with the sugar strike. Delegates from the other States have hurriedly left for the North. The conference is likely to have an important effect upon tho position. Fears are expressed in some quarters that it may be tho precursor of a general strike of transport workers.
OUTLOOK IN MOROCCO
REPORTED DEADLOCK
DIFFERENCE IN IMPERIAL COUNCILS.
(Received August 5, 8.5 a.m.)
[ • , BERLIN, August 4. The National Zeitung states that the conservations with regard to the intervention in Morocco have reached an impasse. Official circles are pessimistic in regard to the consequences. There are hints that a serious iicerenco of opinion arose between the Kaiser arid Herr von Kiderlen-Waechter, German Minister for Foreign Affairs. The latter is credited with a desire to carry out the Moroccan, demands to tho bitter end. The Kaiser, realising that war was possible, declined to run the risk. Other sources state that tho German demands have undergone a cortiplete change, and there is now no question of a Moroccan concession or the occupation of Agadir or the Sus province.
DRAWING NEARER
(Received August 5, 9.30 a.m.)
BERLTN, August 4. A rapprochement lias been established on mattera of principle between M. Cambon, French Ambassador in Berlin, and Herr von Kiderlen-Waech-ter. the German Foreign Minister. The Bourses are stronger.
RUMOURED CESSION OF TAHITI
(Received August 5, 10.10 a.m.)
MELBOURNE, August 5. Mr W. M. Hughes, Acting-Federal Premier, referring to the rumour that Tahiti may be ceded to Germany in return for French freedom of action in Morocco, says no official news has been received of the suggested acquisition of the island by Germany. The Acting-Premier adds that Australian opinion, should be asked if Britain enters into the matter.
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