VARIOUS CABLES

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10497, 7 December 1911, Page 5

VARIOUS CABLES

CABLE NEWS

(United Press Electric Telegraph — Copyright.)

STEAMER ASHORE. IN GREAT PERIL. (Received Last Night, 11.45 o'clock.) NEW YORK, December 6. •An. Ito/liian steamer, bound, from South America to Philadelphia, wentt. ashore at Ocean 1 City, Mfcu-ykind, and is in great perilNEGRO LYNCHED. SUSPECTED OF ATTACKING A GIRL. NEW YORK, December 6. A mob forced an enta-ance to a> gaol at VaHaibt, Oklahoma, and secured a young negro who was charged with atttaokSng a. twieve-year-old gMi. The negro was hanged from am adjacent tree. THE PERSIAN TROUBLE. BOYCOTT OF BRITISH GOODS. (Received Last Night. 10.10 o'clock.) TEHERAN, December 6. Popular feeling is directed agaii.st Britain. The Mollalus in the Mosques have accused Britain of hypocrisy. A boycott of English, goods has grown at Ispahan and Shiraz. COLLIERY BENEATH SHIPYARD. HEAVY DAMAGES AWARDED. (Received Last Night, 10.10 o'clock.) LONDON, December 6. The High Court has awarded Do.\ford and Sons, shipbuilders, of Sunderland, £102,000 damages, on account of a subsidence in the shipyard, owing to the Wearmouth Coal Company's colliery being beneath.

COMMONWEALTH BANK. LONDON TIMES' OPINION. (Received Last Nigßt, 10.10 o'clock.';

LONDON,, December R. A special airticle in the Times' Financial supplement describes the Commomvealth Bank Bill as framed on Conservative, sober-minded lines.

TRIBUTE TO NEW ZEALANDERS.

PAID BY AN EX-GOVERNOR

(Received Last Night, 9.35 o'clock.) I

LONDON, December 6

Lord P]unket, lecturing'.-at th.o Colonial Institute on the Polynesian Islands, said.that the New accepted the white man's burden cheerfully and bore the load wisely and well. • -...'. . .'■.'/'■ RAILWAY MEN. CONFERENCE WITH DIRECTORS MILITANT RESOLUTIONS. (Received December 6, 11.30 a.m.) LONDON, December 5. The railway companies directors and the railwaymen will have a conference on Thursday. The Manchester Guardian says the militant resolutions passed by the railway employees throughout the country are humilitating to the Trade Union executives by conveying the impression that the leaders have been empowered to exact concessions, but that- their, undertakings are worthless. Such action, adds the paper, makes the demand for recognition impossible. ■ . '

CANADIAN AFFAIRS. DOMINION AND AUSTRALIA: (Received' December 6, 11.30 a.m.)

OTTAWA, December 5. There is much disappointment in Canada that as a result of the Dominion elections there will not be reciprocity with Australia. It is considered that it would have been a step in the direction of reciprocity within the Empire. The Australian reluctance to carry the proce>ss further is regretted.

FEDERAL TAB IFF. COMPLAINTS CONCERN ING ALTERATION.

(Received December 6, 11 a.m.)

MELBOURNE, December 0. Mr Tudor, Federal. Minister for Customs, i 3. ljeing besioped by deputations regarding the recent tariff alterations. The chief complaints ;ire that the changes are inadequate and that many anomalies remain.