VARIOUS CABLES.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8532, 10 September 1907, Page 5

VARIOUS CABLES.

AMERICAN HORSESHOES. Received September 9, 8 a.m. LONDON, September 8. The Minister for War (the Right Hon. R. B. Haldane), speaking at Abernethy, defended the purchase of American horseshoes for the British Army on the ground that they are 15 to 20 per cent, cheaper than British. THE MONTE CARLO SENSATION. Received September 9, 8.25 a.m. MONTE CARLO, September 8. An immense crowd met the Goolds on arrival here, shouting "Death to them!" (Goold has confessed that he murdered a Mrs Levy, whose dismembered body was found in two trunks). A VIOLENT SPEECH. Received September 9, 10.45 p.m. LONDON, September 9. The Paris correspondent of The Times says that a thrill of indignation has been caused in Paris by M. Jaures' anti-militarist speech at a meeting of five thousand Socialists. His remarks startled even the audience. Ha advised the proletarians of the various countries to uss rifles fr> overthrow their own Governments when the latter declined arbitration in connection w'.th dispules. MIKKELSEN'3 EXPEDITION. Received September 10, 12.41 a.m. NEW YORK, September 9. M. Stefannsin, ethnographer with the Mikkelsen expedition, telegraphing from Eagle City, Yukon, noun'ees that after the ship "nipped," the party safely accomplished the journey across the ice to land. CANAD T AN RIFLE MEETING. Received September 10, 12.41 a.m. OTTAWA, September.,9. Major Marshall, captain of the Australian team at the Canadian Rifle Meeting dinner, prior to the departure of the teams, summed up America's victory in the Palma Trophy by saying that the men, rifles and sights, were a little better—amounting in all to a good deal better —than the other teams. The Governments of Britain, Canada and Australia should place their riflemen on equal terms with the best team in the world, but they did not. He appealed to the British riflemen to "waxe up" the Home authorities when they returned.