VARIOUS CABLES.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10463, 30 October 1911, Page 3

VARIOUS CABLES.

United Press Association—Jiy Electric Telegraph—Copyright. AT MOUNT LYELL.

EARLY SETTLEMENT OF DISPUTE.

(Received October 28, 9.40 a.m.)

HOBART, October 28. The strike at Mount Lyell is on a fair way to settlement. Meetings of miners have accepted the proposals of directors, which provide that "White's case be subjected to a legal tribunal. All the other men will return to their places, with official recognition of union, the observation of the eighthour principle, ond the appointment of a committee to deal with grievances. The company has granted a conference on the wages question, meantime giving a shilling advance. Work will be resumed at an early date.

SUGAR PROTECTION

(Received October 28, 8.5 a.m.)

BRUSSELS, October 27

The committee of the Sugar Convention is discussing a Russian request for a modification of the 1907 protocol to enable her to increase the exportable quota of sugar from 200,000 tons to 400,000 tone annually.

COMING GERMAN ELECTIONS

(Received October 28, 8.5 a.m.)

BERLIN, October 27

The preparations being made for the forthcoming/ German elections show that the question Freetrade v. Protection will be a leading issue.

AUSTRALIAN OLDrAGE PENSIONS

(Received October 28, 8.5 a.m.)

MELBOURNE, October 28,

The Prime Minister (Mr Andrew Fisher) in his Budget speech said that the large increase of old age pensions was due to the disappearance of the feeling that the pensions were paid as a matter of. charity. Now that the principle underlying the payment was better understood, the reluctance to apply for the pension was vanishing. It is expected that the payments for the current year will total £2,199,000. Special allowances will be made to the blind.

UNLUCKY NAVY.

DISASTERS AVERTED.

(Received October 28, 8.5 a.m.)

LONIJON, October 27

Renter's Toulon correspondent reports that short circuits in connection with the electrical installations on the battleships Diderot and Justice, and a torpedo boat caused fires near the magazine.

Disasters were averted by flooding the magazines.

STOKERS BECOME PANICSTRICKEN.

(Received October 28, 10 a.m.)

PARIS, October 27.

Five stokers on the battleship Justice have been arrested' because they •becanje panic-stricken. when the fire was discovered. They rushed on deck shouting, "All save themselves!"

CHARGE AND COUNTERCHARGE

(Received. QcWber .28, 10 a.m.)

PARIS, October 27.

M. Louppe, ex-manager of the Pon I he Bois powder factory, states that M. 1 Maissin, the present manager, was j

formerly connected with » firm, including German sleeping • partners, which supplied the State with half a million kilogrammes of defective guncotton made from old rags.

SYDNEY STRIKE MATTERS.

"WHAT THE COMPANIES CLAIM.

(Received October 28, 8.5 a.m.)

SYDNEY, October 28,

The dominant note in shipping circles is "no surrender." The companies claim thew have treated the men, generously. Wharf labourers in other States are working without complaints under the agreement. A meeting of strikers and • wharf labourers generally is to be held -tonight to review the,situation. The Crown Solicitor is obtaining , information with a,view to possible proseputions'of strikers under the Industrial Disputes Act. About 250 names have been taken.

Mr A. O. Carmiehael, Minister for Labourer,, in an interview, said that >a section of the press was clamouring for vindictive measures against the men. This was not the time for impotent vengeance, but for the adoption of measures to temporarily relieve the pressure. He was working at full presure with this object. Every effort is being made to unload the Moeraki before her departure for Wellington. She takes *o. outward freight; excepting probably a small quantity of fruit.

LIMIT OF CON CESSION S

(Received October 28, 10 a.m.)

MELBOURNE, October 28

A leading shipowner stated that the companies hiad' reached. the limit of their concessions to the men. If the strike extends it was not only goiiig to affect transport. The shipowners had had offers of support from some very powerful employees' unions.

TO ASSIST IN UNLOADING,

(Received October 28, 10 a.m.)

SYDNEY, October 28

At a meeting of produce merchants it was resolved to find all possible assistance for the costal shipping com-

panies unloading cargoes during tho strike.

One speaker advocated paying the men's demands and the companies raising rates.

DENIAL AND EXPLANATION,

(Received October 28, 10 a.m.)

SYDNEY, October 28,

Mr W. M. Hughes, Federal' Attor-jiey-Geneml, has not -returned. The ether delegates ito the Melbourne conference have returned, and/they deny that their, telegram, read/at the recent strike meeting, was intended to advise the men to resume work. They only meant to convey what might happen in the event of the men not returning.

BREAKING TRUSTS

(Received October 28, 10 a.m.)

WASHINGTON, October 27. The Federal Government has planned a suit to break the Steel Trust.

The hearng of the peliminary petition. has begun in the Trenton, New Jersey Circuit Court. The Government demands the dissolution of all subsidiary companies, as well as all constituent companies. Thirty-six subsidiary companies are named as defendants.

The petition declares that Messrs Gary and Frick, directors of the Steel Trust, misled Mr Roosevelt regarding the purchase of the Tennessee Coal and Iron Company.

FOR RE-ELEOTION.

NEW CANADIAN MINISTERS

(Received October 28, 11 a.m.)

OTTAWA, October 27

The new Cabinet Ministers have been nominated for re-election. It is understood that all opposition to their return has been abandoned.

Fearful that his party might lose the Soulanges seat, Sir Wilfrid Laurier (Leader of the Opposition), who; was elected for that seat and East Quebec, has decided to hold it and resign the Quebec East iseat. Sir Wilfrid thus severs connection with <a seat he has held for, thirty-four years.

"A MISNOMER/'

NATIONAL INSURANCE BILL,

(Received October 28, 10 a.m.)

LONDON, October 27

Mr P. Snowden (Labour M.P. for Blackburn), Mr F. W. Jowett (Labour M.P. for Bradford West) and Mr Will Thome (Labour M.P. for West Ham South), and Mr Lansbury (Labour M.P. for Tower Hamlets) have been striving before the Labour Party's executive to get the party to oppose the Insurance Bill. Mr Snowden and Mr Lapsbury were defiant. The subject has postponed.

Mr Chamber lain and other Opposition leaders complain, that amendments in the Insurance Bill will not affect the class below friendly society members, and that it is a misnomer to discribe the Bill, as a national scheme.

COMMERCIAL

SHARE MARKET,

AUCKLAND QUOTATIONS

-Mr\j. i'. Henory, *harebroker, ot A'tictdanH <in con jnncti. ' with Messrs C/ G.; Ross and C 30.". his Masterton agents), .reports 'following quotas tions.of business at the., first call of the Auckland Stock Exchange yeaterdaj morning

Pl' JvMANENT STOCK

Messrs C. C. Ruse »na w., report the fdllpw>. q yuotations on the Wellington Stock Exchange.

XOCAL QUOTATIONS

MINIS': - / Sellnra. £ s. H £ «. d. May Queen 2 j6 2 4 New Sylvia 1 11 1 10 Saxon > ,18 1 7 Waiotahi 3 5 3 4 Waitangi 3, 3 3 1 Crown 3 0 2 10 Ross 'J 1 1 10 Watchman . 1 7 Talisman 2 10 6 . 2 10 0 Waalij 3 2 G 3 2 3 Waihi Extends 1 11 19 Waihi Gnd. June. 1 13 0 1 12 9

Permanent stocks. Buyers. Sellers. £'8. d. £ b. d. Nation-! Fh'N.Z. 6 1 8 6 a 0 Wellingtoa Meat Export £5 6 5 0 Wellington Meat Ktport, £2 12s 6d 8 6 6 Wellington Trust and Loan , 7 9 6 Wellington Gas, £10 19 0 0 Wellington Gas, £7 10s , 15 10 0 Ditto; new issue 2 15 0 Wellington Gas. 4 rights 2 Union Steam 2 0 6 Wgtn Wool,, pref. 3 0 0 Taupiri Coal 1 2 0 Westport Coal 1 8 6 1 9 0 N.Z; Paper Mills 1 0 0 Taranaki Oil 18 0 Taringamutu 2 6 0 Ward and Co. 5 0 .0

Bayers. Sellers. £ s. d. £ s. d. Success dredge 10 6 1-1 6 Worksop dredge "2 7 6 Masterton dredge 10 0 Wellington Farmers' Meat, pref. 3 15 0 3 17 6 Wellington Farmers' Meat, ord. 3 15 0 Taringamutir 2 6 0