VARIOUS CABLES

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10451, 17 October 1911, Page 3

VARIOUS CABLES

United Press Association—7lu Electric Telegraph—Copyright. DUKE OF CONNATJGHT. (Received October 16, 8.5 a.m.) OTTAWA, October 15. The Duke of Connauglit, Governor General of Canada, speaking at a reception at Parliament Buildings, alluded to the remarkable prosperity of the Dominion. Ho paid a tribute to Earl Grey, late Governor-General, making Canada better known in the Old Country. He realised the great difficulty of following one who had done so much.

THE MACLEAY DISASTER. (Received October 16, 8.5 a.m.) SYDNEY, October 16. At the inquest on the victims of the ■wreck of the steamer 'Macle-ay, Petersen gave evidence to the chief officer changing the course set by the captain. The steamer shortly afterwards struck. The captain ordered the lifeboats out, and the rockets were got ready. They were trying to get the vessel round to beach her when she sank. When the chief officer told the captain the course which he luad been steering, the captain replied, "Oh, you murderer!" Amongst the wreckage picked up in the vicinity of the Macleay disaster was a quantity from the Rosedale and the name board.

A DESPERATE CHARACTER. (Received October 16, 8.5 a.m.) . LONDON, October 15. A man named Deveue, described as an artist, who brandished a loaded revolver against the police, and was also armed with a dagger, hias been arrested in Holburn. He confessed that he attemped to shoot the detectives after raiding a shop in Oxford street.

E.S. AND A. BANK. (Received October 16, 8.5 a.m.) LONDON, Octiber 15. The report of the English, Scottish, and Australian Blank for the year shows that the profits amounted to £215,712, out of which interest and perpetual stocks absorbed £99,676, and £15,000 was placed on reserve. A dividend of seven per cent was declared. £12,587 whs applied to the cancellation of deferred deposits, £IO,OOO to the reduction of the bank premises account, 2000 placed on the officers' •guarantee fund, £7IOO as a bonus of 10 per cent, to the staff, and £31;593 was.c&rried forward. The -balance-sheet shows that deposits and' current account are £5,368,629; Cash and investment, £1,910,988; bills, £1,322,249; advances, £5,802,464.

LABOUR TROUBLES. (Received October 16, 8.5 a.m.) LONDON, October 15. The Cambrian collieries at Clyaclivale are again idle, through the haulare declining to descend to the pits owing to the suspension of a man. Mr Winston Churchill, in reply to local petitioners, declined to interfere with the sentences on the Tredegar rioters.

(Received October 16, 10 a.-m.) LONDON, October 15. Mr Fenwick, M.P., speaking at Hirst, said that arising from the Eight Hours Act in Northumberland had cost the Miners' Association over £IOO,OOO.

TUBERCULOSIS. (Received October 16, 8.5 a.m.) LONDONOctober 15. At a conference of the , National Union of Public Health authorities, Dr. Armstrong, of Newcastle-on-Tyne, declatred that ihalf a million cows in England were affected with tuberculosis.

THE EMPIRE. (Received October 16, 8.5 a.m.) LONDON, October 15. Lord and Lady Dudley were welcomed at Kidderminster. Lord Dudley declared that there was a great and growing feeling in Australia that Australians should be partners in the Council of Empire. They desired to be regarded as distinct branch of the British race enjoying largely all the privileges of national life and qualified to be considered important and responsible in the federacy of self-governing States under the aegis of the crown. • He stated that we were reaching a critical stage in Imperial history and any attempt to check the national development of the Dominions or deal captiously or carpingly with them would alienate our overseas kinsmen. We must allow them to develop on their own lines and use patience and take their confidence.' Imperial consolidation would be enormously difficult and complex. The standpoints of Britain and the dominions were varied, but interchange of views on all problems would enable a mutual understanding to be arrived ia,t. . Lord Dudley added: "The Empire's existence 'as. a first-class Power depends upon its success in birrding all its parts together."

INSURANCE BILL

(Received October 16, 8.5 a.m.)

LONDON. October 15. Mr Lloyd-George, addressing a meeting in London, complained of the crusade of misrepresentations against the Insurance Bill. No one embarked on reforms," lie said, without encountering the opposition of the vested interests. The Bill must be pertinaciously fought through. The Right Hon. D. Lloyd-George added, that it would be four years before a general election. Ho, in 1911, would fight the Insurance Bill through, or fall. The Bill would become operative in 1912, and benefits would be flowing in in 1913 and growing wider by 1914. "What was the use of misrepresentation then.