VARIOUS CABLES.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8465, 15 June 1907, Page 5

VARIOUS CABLES.

TWO THOUSAND MEN ON STRIKE. Received June 14, 8.27 a.m. LONDON, June 13. Owing to the introduction of the 'premium and bonus system at the Vickers-Maxim works at Erith (in Kent, five and a-half miles from Woolwich), nearly two thousand men have.struck. t RED CROSS SOCIETY. Received June 14, 9.5 a.m. LONDON, June 13. The International Red Cross Society's Conference in London agreed to the appointment of four! delegates to visit the various institutions of Red Cross Societies, and to prepare a .report. The conference also discussed abuse l of the Red Cross emblem. It was agreed that it is within the society's province to succour prisoners of war. An exhibition of ambulance and surgical appliances will be held in connection with the conference. LORD DUNDONALD'S CASE. Received June 14, 9.5 a.m. LONDON, June 13. Lord Dundonald, in an interview with the Daily Mail, states that he has retired from the Army owing to the authorities not offering him employment since he was turned out of the Canadian Militia for calling attention tq political competition in the appointment of officers. (Douglas M. B. H. Cochrane, 12th Earl of Dundonald, a descendant of the dashing British sailor, Admiral Cochrane, who figured in-the Chilian and Peruvian Wars of Independence, has served in Egypt, and was a brilliant cavalry leader in the South African War. In , 1900 he was promoted to Major-General for distinguished service, and was thus well advanced in a brilliant military career when his outspokenness as a Commandant in Canada caused a conflict, with* the* cOldniai Government,: and his subsequent retirement), * •, OBITUARY. / Received June 14, 9.5 a.m. i LONDON, June 13. Sir Henry Hicks Hocking, formerly Attorney-General for West Aus- | tralia,*is dead. (Sir Henry Hicks Hocking was born in 1842, was admitted a Barrister of the Inner Temple in 1867, was Attorney-General in West Australia from 1872 till 1879, and filled a similar position in Jamaica from 18S0 till 1896. He was knighted in lEjo.) INTERNATIONAL HORSE SHOW. Receive! June 14, 9.5 a.m. LONDON, June 13. Mr E. B. Winans, the American exhibitor, has taken three championships and 24 first prizes at the great International Horse Show at Olympia. A DASTARDLY DEED. < Received June 14, 9.47 p.m. LONDON, June 14. News from Western Africa states that the natives of the hinterland of Liberia placed Walter Wolz, a Swiss mining explorer, in a wooden cage and burnt him to death. FROZEN MEAT DAMAGED. . Received June 14, 9.47 p.m. CAPET6WN, June 14. - The steamer Banffshire, from Australian ports, has arrived here with a considerable portion of her frozen meat cargo spoiled. The cause is uncertain.