VARIOUS CABLES.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8387, 26 March 1907, Page 5

VARIOUS CABLES.

BILLIARDS. "* Received March 25, 8.43 a.m. . LONDON, March 28. Reece beat Weiss, the Australian champion, by 7,000 to 2,865. Reece made a break of 4,593 unfinished, including 2,268 by cradle cannons, in 98 minutes. Lovejoy, playing Pindar, scored 2,257 unfinished by the same stroke. (The new "anchor" stroke has enabled Reece to bury all records, in breaks and in cannons. Stevenson's record of 802 was more than doubled on March 15th, when it was cabled that "Reece made a break of 1,825, including 899 consecutive cannons, by the 'anchor' btroke, invented by Lovejoy in January.") A MARK OF DISAPPROVAL. Received March 25, 9.35 p.m. PARIS, March 25. General Baillond, commanding the 20th Army Corps, has been appointed commander of the 16th Army Corps as a mark of disapproval by General Picquart, Minister of War, for his indiscreet speech in declaring that war was possible between|France and Germany, and expressing a.hope that the 20th Army Corps would contribute to the restoration of the lost French Provinces. NEW SCHOOLS IN IRELAND. Received March 25, 9.35 p.m. LONDON, March 25. Mr A. BirreU, Chief Secretary for Ireland, has promised to grant £40,000 forjjthree years for building new schools in Ireland. CHESS CHAMPIONSHIP OF THE WORLD. Received March 25,; 8.43 a.m. LONDON, March 24. Lasker won the thirteenthgame in his match with Marshall.'\.■;>*' (The tally now is—Lasker 6 games, Marshall nil, drawn 7. The winner of the first eight games secures the championship.) A NEW IDEA. COMPULSORY MATRIMONY. Received March 25, 8.29 a.m. NEW YORK, March 24. The municipality at Fort Dodge, lowa, has resolved that all bachelors and spinsters, between 25 and 45 years of age must marry within two months, or pay a fine ranging from 20 to 100 dollars. •

(Fort ' Dodge, Webster. County, lowa, has a population of 5,000. The fines will roughly range from £4 to £20." It is not clear where the municipality gets its powers, but at least it may claim that its justice is even-handed.) • ? : THE EGYPTIANS. Received March 25, 10.17 p.m. CAIRO, March 25. The Khedive has informed a French journalist that the Egyptians are highly intelligent and quite capable of managing their own concerns. He denied that the natioanal claims assumed the form of an anti-foreign fanatical movement. He repudiated any desire to become a despot, and declared that the Egyptians were very fond of the French.

OBJECTION TO NON-UNIONISTS,

Received March 25, 9.35 p.m. LONDON, March 25. The whole of the Welsh anthracite colliers have decided to protest against the employment of non-union men. AMERICAN RAILWAYS. < Received March 25, 10.2 p.m. NEW YORK, March 25. Mr Grover Cleveland states that the outcry against the railroads resembles a delirum and presently the nation will be ashamed. He admito thatjsome form of Government supervision is necessary, and ought to be planned quietly. It was not a period for excitement. He appealed to the democrats to force tariff reform on the broader ground of an enlarged national life. America ought to abandon a policy of selfish isolation, which excluded other nations from America's market and cut off America's foreign markets. '

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