GENERAL CABLES.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 15 August 1910, Page 3

GENERAL CABLES.

- ■ • '1 lie following caWes wero crowded out of our Saturday's edition:— "hEVrsmXG Till-] GLIMPSE OF THE MOOX." [bt electric telegraph-coptright.] [per press association.] LOXDOX, August 12. During explorations at Carnvon, in Anglesey, 130 skeletons were unearthed on the site of an old Roman citj

CHINESE POLICE SYSTEM. LONDON", August 12. Chinese officials are visiting Lonoon for the purpose of remodelling their police system on English lines. PERILS OF THE SEA. LONDON. August 12. A British steamer rescued, near the Barbacioes, six of the wow of a urecked vessel, the Loop of Sunlight. They were in an open boat, and .had lived on sugar and vinegar for thirteen days. N KWFOFNDLAND FTSHEKTES. LONDON, August 13. Counsel have concluded their speeches, at the Hague Arbitration 'liibunal, on the Newfoundland fisheries question, and it is expected that judgment will be given about the middle of September. AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

SYDNEY, August 13. The hanks and mint have decided to refuse wilfully defaced silver coin'-, oxcept at their intrinsic value. The captain of the steamer Mulii ara states that Gilbert Islands a; , ' suffering severely iVom the long d wvght.

The Glebe island carcase butdiors have offered tthe men the rates asked pending tho Wages Board decision. They ask for a reply by noon to-day.

The sawm-ll Wages Board have gr nted an increase in wages. f rhe manager, Mi A. Grafton, states that the export trade will be discontinued as the firm is unable to compete ivitr, other lower wage States. This mef-ns a reduction of hands employed to one-third.

BRISBANE, August 13. !n the inter-State tenuis singles, New South W.ilps won five "ribbons," ton sets, and eighty-one games. Queensland won one rubber, five sets, sixty-three games. HOBART, August 13. The Fruit Growers' Conference has decioed to exploit New York as a market for fruit. MELBOURNE, August 13. Mr Hunt, the Federal meteorologist, states that he has no faith in Mr Wragge's cycle drought theory ROOMING A NONENTITY THE J. F. ERASER CHARGES LONDON, August 12, M,r Coghlnn, Agent-General for yew South Wales, replying to the Westminster Gazette's article on Mi John Foster Eraser's book, and its allegations respecting the allaged deterioration of the British race in Australia, adduces alignments and statistics to prove that the allegation are unfounded, and that the reverse is true. TEMPERING A.DYERSrTY'S WLYD. A BRrnSH~PALLTATrVE.

LONDON, August 12. Mr Lloyd Goorgp, speaking at Dolwyddelnn, in his capacity as a Cabinet Minister, s:i: '. he had alitjklv prepared a s ;':e:t!e a::.l rais•n:l the necossarv money tn secure •._.'.» i'k men _ from bre-ikir.jr; d:;\va be':>re 70 from absolute want. He '•. pel to be able to make :<m allowance exceeding three shillings pei week per individual.