VARIOUS CABLES.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8473, 26 June 1907, Page 5

VARIOUS CABLES.

BURGLARIES AT LONG ISLAND

Received June 25, '9.4 a.m. NEW YORK, June 24. Daily burglaries occur at Long Island by means of rpotors, revolvers, and chloroform spray guns. The millionaire residents are organising a private force of eightyfive members to guard their property. THE MISSING BALLOONISTS. Received June 25, 8.44 a.m. LONDON, June 24. The body of Lieut. Caulfield, one of the missing balloonists, has been recovered at sea off the coast of Dorsetshire.

GOLF.

Received June 25, 10.24 a.m. LONDON, June 24. Armand Massey won the golf championship, covering four rounds of eighteen holes each in 312 strokes. REMARKABLE WALKING FEAT. Received June 25, 9.4 a.m. N LONDON, June 24. T. E. Hammond walked from London to Brighton and back, a distance of 104 miles, in 18 hours 12 minutes 7 seconds, beating the previous record of 2 hours 18 minutes. (In 1903 H. W. Horton walked the distance in 20 hours 3 minutes 53 seconds —2 hours 19 minutes 46 seconds in excess of Hammond's time. Hammond's performance is exceptional on account of both 'speed and endurance, seeing that there are numerous hills on the Brighton Road.)

CYCLING. Received June 25, 9.4 a.m. NEW YORK, June 24. Olley cycled a thousand miles by road in 105 hours. 3 minutes, beating the record by 8 hours 57 minutes. BILLIARDS EXTRAORDINARY. Received June 25, 9.4 a.m. LONDON June 24. Reece's break has now reached 262,135, and he is still in play. ! (Reece is playing a match against Chapman of half a million up. He •seems to have a fair prospect of scoring all his points in one break). INCENDIARISM. * Received June 25, 11.18 p.m. BERLIN, June 25. " Siebenlehn, a fireman, accused of incendiarism, has been sentenced to three and a half years' imprisonment, SAN,DOMINGO'S DEBTS. t ' ' Received June 25, 11.18 p.m. WASHINGTON, June 25. President Roosevelt has signed a I treaty wtih San Domingo regarding the collection of Customs and payment of San Domingo's foreign debts. PRESENTED TO THE KING. Recqjved June 25, 8.44 a.m. LONDON, June 24. | Messrs W. Crooks (Woolwich), C. Fenwick (Wansbeck division of Northumberland), J. Rowlands (Dartford division of Kent), and the Labour members of Parliament were specially presented to the King at his Majesty's garden party at Windsor.