VARIOUS CABLES.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8380, 14 March 1907, Page 5

VARIOUS CABLES.

A DESPERATE CRIMINAL. Received March 13, 8.30 a.m. , PARIS, March 12. Jolibois, a workman at Clichy, Paris, attempted to strangle a woman. He killed a policeman and a waiter, and wounded three poeple before he was arrested. LOSS OF THE DAKOTA. Received March.l 3, 8.30 a.m. LONDON, March 12. The 20,000-ton steamer Dakota, which went ashore on the Japanese coast near Tokio, is ripped open for two-thirds of her length. The losso f the London insurance companies amounts to half a million, if part of the cargo is saved.

EMINENT CANDIDATES. Received February 13, 8.30 a.m. LONDON, March 12. Lord Rosebery (Liberal) and Lord Curzon (Conservative and formerly Viceroy of India) are candidates for the Chancellorship of Oxford University:

PRINCE HENRY. Received March 13, 8.30 a.m. • AMSTERDAM, March 12. Prince Henry of the Netherlands declined to accept a national testimonial in connection with his action in encouraging and assisting the rescuers at the wreck of the steamer Bei'lin. Prince Henry declared that he had only done his duty. A SYDNEY MAN HONOURED. Received March 13, 8.30 a.m. LONDON, March 12. Dr. Elliott Smith, of Sydney, has been appointed a Fellow of the Royal Society.

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