VARIOUS CABLES

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10481, 18 November 1911, Page 3

VARIOUS CABLES

j United Press Association—By Elec- ■ trie Telegraph—Copynyht. BRITAIN AND FRANCE. EXCHANGE OF TERRITORIES. (Received November 17, 9.-15 a.m.) VIENNA, November 1(5. Tho Neuos Wiener Tagblatt states that in the Anglo-French agreement about to bo concluded France cedes to Britain the Indian towns of Mahe, Pondichery and Yanaon in exchange for the hinterland of Karikal and Bathurst, in West Africa. The Muscat and Newfoundland questions are also being settled. DISORDER. HOSKTNS' IRON FOUNDRY REPORT. (Received November 17, 9.30 a.m.) SYDNEY. November 17. Sin Co tho presentation of Mr Paul's report on Hoskins' iron foundry, members of the Opposition have repeatedly attacked it. Mr Holman in the Assembly stated that it was incomprehensible to him that the should so exercise themselves in an attempt to show that the inquiry was not intended to throw light on the matter of the Government's requirements being supplied. He created disorder by asking what interest the Opposition members iiad in the matter. THE CONSERVATIVE PARTY. TO REPEAL PARLIAMENT ACT. (Received November 17, 9.45 a.m.) LONDON, November 16. The National Union Conservative Association at Leeds pledged the party to repeal the Parliament Act and approved of a referendum on issues of national gravity. The Association refused to heat} Mr L. Maxse, proposer of a resoltuiou favouring Lord Halsbury and the "no surrender'' peers. Amid uproar, LoH Selborne moved to proceed with other business. Mr Long, who- seconded the motion, said tho party bad traversed a great crisis and had suffered great loss, let it not strew tho new leader's path with pebbles. ] Mr Maxse withdrew his resolution. MOROCCO. FRENCH OCCUPATION PROPOSED. .(Received November 17, 9.45 a.m.) PARIS, November 18. The Government proposes the occupation of Morocco by the Army on similar lines to that of Tunis. The headquarters of the forces will be at Mequinez. Britain and Russia have accepted the Franco-German agreement. SPANISH ELECTIONS. REPUBLICANS DEFEATED. (Received November 17, 9.45 a.m.) MADRID, November 16. The municipal elections in Spain resulted in the Republicans being heavily defeated. VICTORIAN ELECTION. COUNTING INCOMPLETE. (Received November 17, 9545 a.m.) MELBOURNE, November 17. Tho voting was heavy, women exercising the franchise for the first time, j Preferential voting was also introduced. Nin<? Ministerialists were returned unopposed, and in four constituencies there was a contest between Liberals only. Counting is incomplete, but the present figures show that Labour has lost one, and probably two seats, without gaining any. The only Ministerialist endangered is Sir Henry Weldon, who may tve displaced by an Independent. SLEEPY AIRMEN. CAUSE OF AVIATORS' DEATH. J (Received November 17, 9.45 a.m.) | NEW YORK, Novmber 16. j Tho aviator, Mr Rodgers, attributes tho deaths of airmen to etheral asphyxia. He declares that a dreamy feeling overcomes men in the air, causing the loss of control, and a desire to sleep is irresistible. THAMES IRONWORKS. (Received November 17, 9.45 a.m.) < LONDON, November 16. Mr A. F. Hills, chief of the Thames •Iron works, attributes the failure of tho company to the fact that working capital was expended on preparations for building the Thunderer and losing the order for the construction of the battleship Ajax. • It was an audacious implication to say that the unwillingness of the Admiralty to accept the Thames Company's tenders sealed its doom. BRITAIN AND GERMANY. GERMAN PROFESSOR'S OPINION. (Received November 17, 9.45 a.m.) BERLIN, November 16. Professor Scliiemann, in an article in the Rreuzzeitung, says that Britain by reason l of her obligations under PJranco-RriJish 'Moroccan (agreement of 1904, occupied a. position similar to that of Germany in the Bosnian crisis, i There have been no threats from the British Government, neither was Mr Lloyd-George's speech investigated by the Cabinet. It did not possess tho significance attached to it, nevertheless it occasioned great harm, a.nd it was repjretful that Britain bad not corrected it. )