VARIOUS CABLES.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8493, 23 July 1907, Page 5

VARIOUS CABLES.

A PUGILIST SENTENCED. Received July 22, 9.16 a.m. LONDON, July 21. Pedlar Palmer, a pugilist, has been sentenced to five years' imprisonment on a charge of manslaughter arising out of an assault in an Epsom race train on April 24th.

DAVIS TENNIS CUP. Received July 22, 9.16 a.m. LONDON, July 21. In the international lawn tennis for the Davis Cup, Brookes beat Gore, 7—5, 6—l, 7—5. and Wilding defeated Roper Barrett, I—6, 6—4, 6-3, 7—5. SWIMMING. Received July 22, 10.27 a.m. LONDON, July 21. Ella McKay, the Scottish champion, easily defeated Beatrice Kerr, the Victorian swimmer, in a quartermile swimming race at Blackpool. THE RAND STRIKERS. Received July 22, 10.7 p.m. LONDON, July 22. The Rand strikers have cabled to Mr Winston Churchill asking him to support their demand for the repatriation of all Chinese in February next or provide passages to the Motherland for three thousand strikers. AN INTERESTING DISCOVERY. Received July 22. 8.53 a.m. CAIRO, July 21-. Gustaf Jaell, the Egyptologist, claims to have discovered at Edfu, in Upper Egypt, near the site of an old Coptic monastery, a number of Greek and Coptic parchment manuscripts, including twenty-five new leaves of apocryphal sayings of Christ.

A BULGARIAN BAND EXTERMINATED. Received July 22, 9.28 p.m. CONSTANTINOPLE, July 22. The Turkish troops exterminated a Bulgarian band of 47 at Tiflis. Five Turks were killed.

DIVORCE. Received July 22, 9.28 p.m. LONDON July 22. The Countess of Roslyn has secured a divorce from the Earl of Roslyn on the grounds of adultery. GOVERNOR OF BOMBAY. Received July 22, 9.28 p.m. LONDON, July 22. Sir Geo. Sydenham Clarke, formerly Governor of Victora, has been appointed Governor of Bombay.

SIR WILFRID LAURIER. Received July 22, 10.7 p.m. OTTAWA, July 22. Sir Wilfrid Lanrier received an ovation on his arrival at Quebec, and Montreal. He declared that he did not believe that the All Red route would be abandoned. If a check occurred he would be spurred to greater exertion since a certain scheme would eventually be accomplished.