VARIOUS CABLES.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8460, 10 June 1907, Page 5

VARIOUS CABLES.

GLASTONBURY ABBEY SOLD. LONDON, June 7. Glastonbury Abbey has been sold for £30,000. (It is not clear how old Glastonbury Abbey really is, as fire and the sword have swept at various times over Glastonbury, but it was here that Joseph of Arimathea founded the first Christian Church in Britain. Glastonbury is the Gleastings' borough of the West Saxons, and the Avalon of King Arthur legends, under which name, or a variant, it is found in the pages of Tennyson. It is said that Joseph of Arimathea, bearing the Holy Grail, came to Glastonbury and plantedj,his pilgrim's staff on Wearyall Hill. There it took root, and grew into the Holy Thorn, "which blossomed miraculously every Old Christmas Eve until it was cut down by a Puritan. Grafts from it flourish still; one at Sutton Poyntz, near Weymouth, duly blossomed on the night of January sth, 1884, in the presence of 250 persons." One authority says: Glastonbury was the one church of the first rank in England which stood as a memorial ot British days, the only one which had lived unscathed through the storm of English conquest.)

NEW ZEALAND BOWLERS. LONDON, June 7. The London County team beat the New Zealand bowlers, in a one rink game, by 22 to 15. WAR OFFICE TENDERS. LONDON, June 7. The War Office is inviting tenders, to close on September 16th, for 300,000 one-pnund tins of preserved beef and mutton, and 150,000 two- ' pound tins. NEW COPPER VENTURE. LONDON, June 7. The Mount Lyell Comstock Copper Company, Tasmania, has been registered with a capital of £150.000. MR KEIR HARDIE. LONDON, June 7. Mr Keir Hardie, Leader of the Parliamentary Party, will shortly visit Australia to study labour questions. GIuTS TO CHARITIES. j Received June .9, 4.49 p.m. LONDON, June 8. Mr William Waldorf Astor has given £IO,OOO to four London charities. THE STUENENBERG MURDER. Received June 9, 4.49 p.m. NEW YORK, June 8. Orchard's confessions arising out of the Stuenenberg murder trial extends to eighteen murders." LABOUR LEADERS SENTENCED. Received June 9, 4.49 p.m. PARIS, June 8. Two men, named Levy and Bousquet, labour leaders and anti-militar-ists, have been sentenced to two years' imprisonment at the Seine Assizes for inciting workmen to pillage; also for complicity with the strikers' acts of robbery and destruction of property. The Public Prosecutor declared that the Paris May-day demonstration in 1906, organised by the accused, cost the Treasury £140,000. i Recently they attempted to organise a general strike.

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