VARIOUS CABLES

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10443, 7 October 1911, Page 5

VARIOUS CABLES

SUGAR INDUSTRY. COMMISSION OF INQUIRY. (Received Last Night, 9.20 o'clock.) MELBOURNE, October 6. The Commission to inquire into the sugar industry has been appointed. It consists of Judge Gordon (South Australia), chairman; Mr Hinchcliffe (Secretary of the Australian Labour Federation); Mr M. Anderson (of Sydney, representing the shipping interShannon (cane grower); Mr Crawford (President of the Sugar Producers' Association.) Inquiries will be made into all phases of the question.

LONDON WOOL SALES. CLIP PRICES. (Received October 6, 8.5 a.m.) LONIK3N, October 6. At the wool sales, some of the prices for clips were: —"Toi toi," top price, 10£ d; average, 9d. "Riverslea," top price, 12$ d; average, lid. PRICES UNCHANGED. (Received October 6, 10.30 a.m.) LONDON, October 5. There was a miscellaneous offering chiefly merinos, at the wool sales. There was fair competition. Prices were unchanged.

LABOUR AT HOME. MR CHURCHILL'S DECLARATION. , AS VIEWED BTLABOURITES. Received This Morning, 12.5 o'clock. LONDON, October 6. Mr C. W. Bowerman, Labour member for Deptford, stated that Mr Winston Churchill's declaration is important. The labour Executives must take cognisance of it. Mr Ramsay Macdonald declared that if the Dundee Liberals want two candida/tes they would get them. Labour defeated them, before, and would do so again. Mr Phil Snowden said Labour had no right to complain of the Liberal opposition. . Mr G. Clynes said that if the Liberals were to adopt Mr Churchill's attitude ther3 would be reprisals. THE BRITISH NAVY. . INCREASING THE FLEET. Received This Morning, 12.50 o'clock. LONDON, October 6. The Admiralty lias mvit-ec! tenders for three crui.ers, seven .high speed special destroyers, and four battleships of the George V. class; but wit'h a horse-power of 29,000. Two are to be constructed privately, and the others at Portsmouth and Devonport.

FEDERAL POLITICS. NEW ELECTRAL BILL. (Received October- 6, 11.10 a.m.) MELBOURNE, October 6. A new Electoral Bill 'has been introduced in the Senate. It fixes Saturday as the polling day for future elections.

MINERS RESCUED. -

THE QUEEN MINE ACCIDENT. (Received October 6, 10 a.m.) BRISBANE, October 6. The four miners who were entombed at Marshall's Queen mine, Charters Towers, on the 4th instant, owing to a shaft collapsing, liave been rescued. One of them is ill with pleurisy and is in a vei-y weak state. The others are well.

HOME RULE. REPORT FROM DUBLIN. (Received October 6, 9 a.m.) IX>NDOiN", October 5. It is reported in Diublin that the (Home Rule Bill, which, it is said, •will, be introduced next • April, will provide for a gift of ten million pounds to start the new Parliament. The Government's chief difficulty relates to the Irish members' attendance at Westminster. 'Mr A. Lyttelton (one-time 'Secretary for the.Coloinies) speaking at a Unionist demonstration at Selkirk, and discussing Home Rule, said that so long ate. they had the opportunity for full and fair debate they should rely on argument and not resort to menace or force.

SHIPPING ACCOMMODATION. FOR A&SISTSI7IMMIGBANTS, (tleceivpd October 6, 11.10 a.m.) v LONPON, October 5. ; Anglo-Australians- in London, gave a farewell to Mr Hunter, of New South "Wales. Mr Hunter, responding, said that if the Australian Governments cared to make lengt'hy contracts for shipping accommodation the mimber of assisted immigrants would be quickly doubled. Experience had proved that the passage rates to New South Wales secured ample applicants. He hoped that t'he Premiers' Conference would adopt that rate, and stop rate cutting.