VARIOUS CABLES.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8431, 1 May 1907, Page 5

VARIOUS CABLES.

BIG ORDERS FOR GUNS. Received April 30, 8.51 a.m. LONDON, April 29. Woolwich "Arsenal, the Sir William Armstrong Company, and the VickersMaxim Company have received -orders for sixty 12-inch guns for the three British Dreadnoughts now building, and for three Brazilian Dreadnoughts which are building in England.

PRIMA. DONNA AND ARTIST.

Received April 30, 8.38 a.m. NEW YORK, April 29,

Emma Eames, prima donna, has secured a divorce from her husband, Julian Story, an artist of New York. (Emma Eames, operatic vocalist, wps born in 1867, in Shanghai, where her father, an American citizen, was engaged in the practice of law in the Consular courts. She studied in Paris, where she made her debut at the opera at the age of 22jyears. Her first appearance at Covent Garden was in "Faust," in 1891, in which year she married Julian Story, painter and sculptor.)

"LIVING STATUARY" CRUSADE,

Received April 30, 8.38 a.m. LONDON, April 29. The Bishop of London, the 'Rev. Lingett, and other Nonconformist ministers, have begun a crusade against the exhibition of living statuary. (Living statuary is having a big vogue in England. The Modern Milo, who is, perhaps, the originator of the present phase of living pictures, is touring in England, and the London music-halls have quite a string of posturing artists, mostly foreigners.)

BILLIARDS. Received April 30, 8.38 a.m. * LONDON, April 29. Cook made a break of 19,780 unfinished, including 9,869 by anchor cannons, and beat Harverson by 24,000 to 1,312. ASSAULTING THE CAPTAIN. Received April 30, 8.38 a.m. LONDON, April 29. Bertram V. Williams, a seaman on the ship Port Jackson, which recently arrived from Sydney, was sentenced to a month's imprisonment for assaulting the captain, because the latter gave him a bad discharge. It is stated that Williams is the 30n of a New Zealand clergyman.

A DESTROYER -LAUNCHE D. Received April 30, 11.34 p.m. LONDOxN, April 30. The destroyer Ghurka, 33 knots, and one of the five ocean-going vessels ordered by the Admiralty, with a radius of action of 2,000 miles, at cruising'speed, bas been hunched at Hebburn-on-Tyne.