VARIOUS CABLES.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10407, 30 August 1911, Page 3

VARIOUS CABLES.

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GETTING EXTRAVAGANT

(Received August 29, 9.30 a.m.) SYDNEY, August 29.

At the annual meeting of te Ohamber of Manufacturers the president, Mr Wunderlich, stated that last year the manufacturers of New South Wales expended £7,000,000 more as compared with the previous year. The total output was nearly £50,000,000. The shortage of labour was obvious. All manufacturers were looking for good tradesmen. Though not a Labourite, he could not help admiring the administrative capacity of the State Ministry. They must give the Government due credit. 'lhe volume of imports frightened sonv. 1 people, but in their present state of prosperity, he did not see much cause for fright. The people were getting very extravagant, iand they were prepared io pay high rates.

NEW SOUTH WAXES

• (Received August 29, 9.30 a.m.) SYDNEY, August .29. . It is expected that after the Assembly flias disponed of Mr Cohen's motion raising the question of privilege ii connection with Mr Willis's election i to the speakership, Mr Wade, Leader [of the Opposition, will move an am■iendment to the Address-in-Reply, jaiming at a dissolution.

TRAIN WRECKED

J...' (Received August 29, 12.15 a.m.)

NEW YORK, August 28

By the removal of a rail oh the New York to Newfoaven and Hartford line, a train was wrecked at Middle-ton, in Connecticut, and sixty passengers were injured, one fatally.

AUSTRALIAN ABORIGINES

(Received August 29,.9.30 a.m.)

BRISBANE, August 29,

The Government is providing oxtensive settlements in the north for the care of aborigines.

MEDICOS ON STRIKE

(Received August 29, 8.40 a.m.)

ADELAIDE, August 29." The latest strike is amongst the doctors.

Eighty-three of these in the metropolitan area notify through the press that, being determined to resist "the attempt to lower.Lodge remuneration, they (have agreed not to act as surgeons to any Lodge affiliated with the Adelaide Friendly Societies' dispensary scheme.

STEAMER AFIRE

(Received August 29,11.10 a.m.")

. LONDON, August 28. The steamer Menelaus arrived at "Malta with No. 4 hold afire. , As the next ihold contained lyddite shells, the vessel was ordered to the outlying harbour, "where Admiral Symons and a naval party boarded her end extinguished tlhe fire. ; The cargo is now being unloaded.

i COMPULSORY TRAINING

(Received August 29, 9.30 \a.m.)

fy. Over'<vß7jpo^)^ , boyp/are; , unde|gbrng v ; training 'liajk;i^,;.^pjori)anbti'---weilih.:■. -h. The exemptions numbered 55;901 i\ Of .these only: 6522 were 6!iie. te'medicai unfitness.' Tie/rejst':!wero owing to.the distance of tie boys* homes from the training, eenres.

BONNETS BARRED,

(Received Augu<st 29, 9.40 a.m.)

BERLIN, August 28

: A police edict forbids women'wearing hats or bonnets to sit' in any part of the Berlin theatres, under a penalty of £5. Hatpins had been previously forbidden.

ESPIONAGE.,

(Received August 29, 9.40 a.m.)

LONDON, August 28

■',' The case of Schultz, the German, who was recently arested on a charge of espionage, is proceeding at Plymouth. , The, evidence .shows that he : made local; friendships' while yachting, and endeavoured to. ascertain; tow ' far naval circles .oonsideredyßritain's support of France on the Moroccan'question;, was ..earnest... ;• He also regarding naval movements. Tho questions were answered, 'after consultation with the authorities, for the purpose of a prosecution. , The prisoner forwarded the information supplied to the German government.

BERLIN, August. 28

; Major Stewart, the English Yeomanry officer, recently arrested i»v a charge of espionage, has been ordered to undergo his trial at Leipzig.

THE MOROCCAN CRISIS

(Received August 29, 9.40 a.m.)

BERLIN, August 28. j'Sir, Fairfax r Oartwright, British Ambassador at Vienna, replying to a correspondent, declines responsibility for anonymous apbiclfes in. th-3 ;;> T eue Freie Presses wfliich ; ]H-iht'orciied:^pco^

■', v (RecejVed August 29, •iX;lo,a;.in. ; ).; " ; : ' '\ Reuter's' Berlin correspon ;cn i 'confirms the French and German news„paper reports that France an.i Germany aire approaching a settlement regarding Morocco. . The Times' Berlin correspoaJenu considers fhai the Anglophooe attacks were intended to cover Germany's retreat and condeal the import-

ant fact that Britain had persistently striven to bring about a Franco-Ger-man settlement.

LABOUR TROUBLES

(Received August 29, 11.10 a.m.)

LONDON, August 28,

Testifying before the Railway Com mission, Mr Williams, secretary of the Amalgamated Railway Servants, advocated a National Board, consisting of employers and railwaymen, as a Court of Appeal, and the appointment of an arbitrator in the event of its disagreeing. LONDON. August 28, Tho Trades' (Council's sports afc Dublin have been abandoned because, in opposition to the Committee's lecision, the mob insisted on a clerk who did railway duty, and a porter who had not struck, being allowed to compete. (Received August 2£, 9.30 a.m.) NEWCASTLE, Aumist 29. The miners' delegate on the Board has decided to ask the proprietors to increase the selling price of coal, beginning next year, from lis to 12s a ton, with a proportionate increase m the hewing rate. (Received August 29, 8.4.0.a.m.) SYDNEY, August 29. The Townville wharf labourers' strike 'has been settled.

After conferring with the company's manager the free labourers agreed to accept £lO each to leave, the Waterside Union agreeing to find the fifty to two hundred men required to replace them. The Unionists resumed at midnight.