VARIOUS CABLES.
LONG DISTANCE BALLOON RACE. Received September 18, 8.44 a.m. BRUSSELS, September 17. Twenty-nine balloons left Brussels for a long distance race. Professor Huntington's balloon Zephyr descended at Cazaubon, and the Hon. C. S. Rolls' Britannia at Arcachon, France. Received September 18, 9.51 p.m. BRUSSELS, September 18. The German balloon Pommeru descended at Bayonne, winning the international contest. It travelled 1,000 kilometres from Brussels. The Swiss balloon Cognac and the British balloon Zephyr were bracketed for second place. OLD AGE PENSIONS. Received September 18, 9.51 p.m. LONDON, September 18. Hon. T. Coghlan, Agent-General for New South Wales, in a long letter to the Times, condemns Lord Avebury's old age pension scheme as impracticable. He declares that the general results of granting pensions in Australia was most excellent. It had not destroyed the people'.; independence nor removed the incentives of thrift. THE DAVIS CUP. Received September 18, 9.33 p.m. LONDON, September 18. The brothers Doherty, the wellknown tennis players, are disposed to visit Australia in 1908 as challengers for the Davis Cup.
ANTI-ASIATIC MOVEMENT,
Received September 18, 7.30 a.m. SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 17. The steamer Dominion, belonging to the Mississippi and Dominion Steam Ship Company, and carrying 400 Hindoos, was expelled from Bellingham Bay, in Washington State.
A FAMILY HANG THEMSELVES,
Received September 18, 7.30 a.m. BUDA PESTH, September 17. M. Litvay, director of the Kolozstar Hospital, Hungary, defrauded the institute, and his son his son's wife, and two adult daughters, feeling disgraced, hanged themselves.
ATTEMPT TO SWIM THE ENGLISH CHANNEL.
Received September 18, 5.27 a.m. LONDON, September 17. J. Wolffe again failed in an attempt to swim the English Channel. He got within two miles of the French coa?t. The sea was rough. (Jabez Wolffe has made many attempts to swim the Channel. In July and August he tried, but without success. On the latter occasion he was fifteen and a half hours in the water).
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8538, 19 September 1907, Page 5
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