VARIOUS CABLES

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10454, 20 October 1911, Page 6

VARIOUS CABLES

United Vress Association — By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. STEAMSHIP LINES. (Received October 19, 8.55 a.m.) NEW YORK, October 18. Plans arc maturing at Seattle for the amalgamation of the Alaska Const and North Pacific steamship lines. 'Die merger i.s the largest ever effected on the Pacific Coast. A fleet of fourteen vessels is involved. CONGREGATIONAL UNION. THE NE TEMERE DECREE. (Received October 19, 9.15 a.m.) SYDNEY, October 19. Tho Congregational Union protested against the Ne Temere decree, and urged the Government to take steps to vindicate tho supreme authority of the law. Speakers condemned the totalisator as giving to gambling a status that it does not at present possess. ' FATAL DUEL. (Received October 19, 8.5 a.m.) BERLIN, October 18: A duel with pistols, arising out of a' love affair at Dance, between two students named Dietzen, aged eighteen, and Vonnecker, aged sixteen, was fought at Rudolstadt. Vonnecker was shot de-ad, whereupon Dietzen shot himself, it is feared fatally. PERSIA'S REGENERATION. (Recived October 19, 8.5 a.m.) TEHERAN, October 18. Morgan Shuster, Treasurer-General, declares that the success of his scheme of financial reorganisation is incompatible with Russia's attitude. He blames Russia and Britain for interfering with Persia's regeneration. PHILATELIC CONGRESS. (Received October 19, 9.15 a.m.) SYDNEY, October 19. The Philatelic Congress resolved to meet every, second year. A committee of experts was formed to deal with suspected forgeries. Mrs Kenderdine won the prize for the best collection of New Zealand stamps. CANADIAN ELECTIONS. (Received October 19, 8.5 a.m.) .OTTAWA, October 18. Tho Liberals do not intend to oppose the majority of Ministers seeking re-election tiirough acceptance of portfolios. RURAL DEVELOPMENT. J (Received October 19, 11.10 a.m.) LONDON, October IS. Earl Carrington, presiding at the National Congress for Rural Development, said it was not sufficient to show the small holder how to increase production, but they must also organise the distribution and sale of produce. " The Board of Agriculture had,'framed a scheme to form country co-opera-tive societies to handle produce, and also to grant loans: to members. LABOUR TROUBLES. MOUNT LYELL DISPUTE. (Received October 19, 9.15 a.m.) i SYDNEY, October 18^ Several of the Mount Lyell.strikers I have arrived in Sydney, and most'of I them obtained work immediately. ' I They state that it is practically cer- ; tain that a secret ballot would result