CABLE BRIEFS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 13 May 1913, Page 5

CABLE BRIEFS.

CALIFORNIA AND JAPANESE,

(Received May 12, 9.55 a.m.) WASHINGTON, May, 11. Mr W. J. Bryan, United States Secretary for State, despatched a message to the Governor, Mr Johnson urging him to return the Anti-Alien Bill to the State Legislature for reconsideration.

BRITISH CABINET. (Received Mav 12, 9.55 a.m.) LONDON, May 11. The newspaper Natiofn advocates that Mr Lloyd George should relinquish the Chancellorship of the Exchequer and .supersede Mr John Burns as President of the Local Government Board. : NOISY DEMONSTRATIONS. (Received Mav 12,- 8.35 a.m.) LONDON, May 11. At the Congress of British Socialists at Blackpool, there was a noisy demonstration againist the executive. The congress resolved to establish a Parliamentary fund, to which members shall contribute Is a year. FRANCO-GERMAN ENTENTE. (Received Mav 12, 8.35 a.m.) BERNE* May 11. Eighty-eight deputies, of the French Chamber and forty-three members of the German Reichstag are partaking in the Socialist Conference to promote a Franco-German Entente. STEAMER WRECKED AT JAVA. (Received Mav 12, 8.35 a.m.) THE HAGUE, May 11. A coastal steamer sank at Java, and twenty-three of the crew were drowned, forty-seven being saved. KING OF SPAIN IN FRANCE. (Received Mav 12, 8.35 a.m.) PARIS, May 11. King Alfonso has conferred with M. Pichon, Foreign Minister. A. great reception in the streets was aooorded to His Majesty.

SELLARS FAMILY. (Received May 12, 8.35 a.m% LONDON, May 11. The Daily News iiay opened a fund for the Sellars family, who recently returned from New Zealand, and regarding whom the paper a few days ago stated that they had "lest everything except their self-respect, owing to refusal to obey the compulsory military law." SERIOUS LiSPUTE. (Received Mav 12, 8.35 a.m.) LONDON, May 11. A serious dispute- has occurred on the Great 'Northern Railway through a, driver refusing to pay a shilling fine for alleged breach of discipline.