VARIOUS CABLES.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8488, 16 July 1907, Page 5

VARIOUS CABLES.

JAPANESE FOR CANADA. Received July 15, 8.12 am. 1 OTTAWA, July 14. Tkree thousand Japanese are being brought to Canada to construct the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway. DEATH OF AN ARTIST. Received July 15, 10 a.m. LONDON, July 14. Mr David Farquharson, the painter, is dead. . (Deceased wa= elected ah Associate of the Royal Scottish Academy in 1882, and an Associate of the Royal Academy in 1905.) OPENING OF THE ALEXANDRA DOCK. Received July',ls, 10.33 p.m. LONDON, July 15. Their Majesties King Edward and Queen Alexandra had a great reception at Cardiff, where they opened the Alexandra dock, which is half a mile long and 1,000 feet wide. In honour of the occasion -His Majesty King Edward knighted Lord Mayor Crossman, who is a prominent Trade Unionist. A TIMELY DISCOVERY. Received July 15, 11.20 p.m. LONDON, July 15. Router's agent at Seoul, the chief town of Korea, reports that 24 men were discovered in the ladies' apartment in the Korean Palace. It is believed that they intended to assassinate the Empemr and Ministers. EFFORTS TO SECURE A MONOPOLY. Received July 15, 10.30 p.m. NEW YORK, July 15. The Inter-state Commerce Commission at Washington has reported drastically against the efforts of a group of railways controlled by E. H. Harriman to secure a monopoly of the Pacific railway and steamship traffic. It is expected that President Roosevelt will direct a prosecution against the group. «1.1 l ■■■—., —lll I ■■»!■» "ATTRACTING ATTENTION TO [A GRIEVANCE." A NAVAL RESERVIST FIRES A REVOLVER. AS THE FRENCH PRESIDENT PASSES. Received July 16, 12.33 a. m. PARIS, July 15. While President Faliieres was returning from a review at Longchamps, and was passing along the Avenue Marigny in Paris, two revolver shots were fired by a naval reservist named Maille. Two policemen seized Maille and prevented him firing again. The shots hit no one. The President turned slightly pale, smiled and bowed, and drove on. Maille, the police consider, is deranged. Maille denies any mental aberration, and states that his motive in firing was to attract attention to a grievance between nimself and the State.