VARIOUS CABLES.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8481, 8 July 1907, Page 5

VARIOUS CABLES.

AN EIGHT-HOUR DAY BILL. Received July 7, 4.36 p.m. PARIS, July 6. The Chamber of Deputies, by 427 votes to 125, passed M. Basley's Bill making eight hours the maximum day's work in the mines. DUKE OF DEVONSHIRE. Received July 7, 4.36 p.m. LONDON, July 6. The Duke of Devonshire's health shows a decided improvement. THE CHAMPION SHOT. LONDON, July 5. Sergeant-Major Wallingford has won the Army shooting championship, with a score of 4HB out of a possible 525. HENLEY REGATTA. LONDON, July 5. At the Henley regatta Captain Darell won the Diamond Sculls. The crew of the Club Nautique De Grand (Belgium) secured the Grand Challenge Cup. BUTTER ADULTERATION. - LONDON, July 5. , The Council of the British Dairy Farmers' Association .passed a resolution approving the Butter Bill, which limits the proportion of moisture to 16 per cent. FIRE AT A WORKHOUSE. LONDON, July 5. A fire at Plymouth workhouse gutted the'main block, containing 250 persons. The inmates rescued many , of the old and feeble. NEW ZEALAND BOWLERS. LONDON, July 5. The New Zealand bowlers beat Titwood Club, Glasgow, by three, points. EDITOR IMPRISONED. | BERLIN. July 5. The editor of the Socialist newspaper Volksstomme, has been sentenced to a month's imprisonment at Mannheim, for publishing an insulting article regarding the German troops in South-West Africa. TENNIS CHAMPIONSHIP. LONDON, July 6. Two more finals in the Tennis Championships have been decidedl In the Doubles, Brookes and Wilding defeated Wright and Behr, 6—4, 6—4, 6—2. In the Ladies' Singles, Miss May Sutton beat Mrs Chambers (formerly Miss K. Douglas), 6—l, 6—4. ACQUITTED. ' _____ Received July 7, 4.18 p.m. BRUSSELS, July 6. After a trial lasting many days, Carlos Waddington, son of the Chilian Charge d'Affaires, at Brussels, was acquitted on a charge of killing Ernest nephew of the late President of Chili, on February 24th, 1906. The evidence" showed that Balmaceda, after seducing Waddington's sister, refused to fulfil his promise of marriage and threatened a terrible scandal in Chili. There was a remarkable scene in the court at the close of the trial. The men cheered and women embraced Waddington.