VARIOUS CABLES.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8383, 18 March 1907, Page 5

VARIOUS CABLES.

PRINCESS VICTORIA LOUISE. Recels-'Sd March 17, 4.38 p.m. BERLIN, March 15. Wanda Radford, an Australian child actress, is giving the Kaiser's daughter, Prirjeess Victoria Louise, lesson in acting", CAB FARES IN LONDON. Received March' 17, 4.38 p.m. LONDON, March 16. Mr H. Gladstone, Secretary of State, Home Department, has fixed taximeter cab fares in London at eightpence per mile. Four hundred instruments are now ready for use.

A LIBEL CASE.. Received March 17, 4.42 p.m., LONDON, March 16. Mr William O'Brien, Nationalist member for Cork, sued Freeman's Journal at the Limerick assizes for £5,000 damages for libel contained in six published statements, alleging, inter alia, that he had conspired with Lord Dunraven, Messrs Wyndham and Macdonnell to destroy the Irish Partv and create'a Moderate Unionist Centre Party and sell or surrender eighteen Nationalist seats. Mr Justice Johnson, in charging the jury, incidentally remarked that the unmasked conspirator in the case appeared to be Mr J. Dillon, M.P. for Mayo East. The jury found that the Glenroe letter and certain speeches, made by Messrs Dillon and Redmond contained libels and the various comments were unfair and were published with malice.

Mr Justice Johnson directed that the damages must not. be contemptuous. The jury awarded a farthing damages in each of the six libels. Plaintiff's counsel moved to set the verdict aside. ..,„,„«*«««, IMPERIAL COUNCIL . OTTAWA , March 15. The Toronto Globe denies that Sir Wilfrid Laurier, Premier of Canada, is in favour of a Permanent Imperial Council, but he is willing to unite with the other Premiers in reaching a definite understanding with the Imperial Government relative to the position of the colonies with regard to British treaty obligation. Sir Wilfrid Laurier, invterviewed, denied writing either privately or officially to Sir Joseph Ward relating to treaty obligations.

GERMAN POLITICS. BERLIN, March 15. The Chancellor, Prince von Bulow, speaking at a banquet in Berlin, promised to amend the Bourse law, to reform the right of association and public meeting, also to continue to protect the agricultural industry. STRIKERS KILLED JN BELGRADE. BELGRADE, March 15. As the police of Belgrade were escorting to the sugar, leather, and boot factories two hundred nonunions hands from Kragujeyatz, unionist strikers interfered. The police fired and killed five strikers, wounding twenty. IRISH EMIGRATION INCREASING. , LONDON, March 15. The number of emigrants from Ireland last year was 35,354, an increase of 4,668.

BILLIARD RECORDS. LONDON, March 15. Reece made a break of 1825, including 899 consecutive cannons, by the "anchor stroke," invented by LoVejoy in January. (Until lately, Ree:e was getting starts from Dawson and Stevenson, ,as much as 2,50 Jin 9,00); and in a match on ; thoseiterms with Stevenson the latteiwon by 500 though Reece's score included a■, 62.7 '"break. : Reece : -is ; 27 years of age, and has lately; shown greatly improved cannon play. ' He has..6vident]j? got complete .hold,of the: rie'vy stroke. 6th he made a break of 1,269, which was fari'dn excess of,the.-previous best under English rules, Stevenson's 802. r The 1y269 -break incWded 521 copsecutive cannons, which also b'ttike the

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