VARIOUS CABLES.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8541, 23 September 1907, Page 5

VARIOUS CABLES.

CONTRADICTED. Received September 22, 4.20 p.m. LONDON, September 21. The Tribune published a cablegram to the effect that Mr T. A. Coghlan, Agent-General for New South Wales, had cabled to his Government intimating that, owing to the hostile character of the Commonwealth tariff, British iand Continental manufacturers were unlikely to support the proposed' Sydney Exhibition. Inquiries made at Mr Coghlan's office elicited the fact that no such cablegram had been sent.

CHARGE OF ATTEMPTED BLACKMAIL.

PARIS, September 20.

Frank Wertheim, who shot Woolf Joel at Johannesburg on March 18th, 1898, as been arrested here on an English extradition warrant, charged with attempting to blackmail Woolf Joel to the extent of £16,000.

(Woolf Joel was a relative of the late Mr Barney Barnato, a South African millionaire. Wertheim had written threatening letters to Joel, demanding money for the "removal" of President Kruger. He then waited on the murdered man, and asked for £2,500, which was refused Seizing a revolver, which was on the desk, he fired at Joel, with fatal effect, and subsequently attempted suicide. That was the first story, but it subsequently transpired that Wertheim had waited on Joel and his manager (Mr Strange) with a scheme for redressing the grievances of the U itlanders in the Transvaal, and when the money to carry out the scheme was refused, he seized Joel's revolver from the desk, exclaiming, "You know too much and must both die." Strange immediately firod at Wertheim, hitting him in the imuth, and Wertheim then shot Joel. He also fired at Strange.)

A GENEROUS GIFT,

Received Septembsr 22, 4.25 p.m. LONDON, September 21. Lord Mount-Stephen has donated £35,000 to the Aberlour Orphanage in Banffshire, Scotland. The gift will support one hundred beds in the institution. (In January, 1005, Lord MountStephen gave £200,000 to King Edward's Hospital Fund for London.)

ENGINEERING AND MACHINERY EXHIBITION. » LONDON, September 20. An Engineering and Machinery Exibition has been opened at Olympia. Sir Horace Tozer, Agent-General for Queensland, in proposing the toast, "Success to the Exhibition," stated that Queensland had purchased this year half a million pounds worth of British - manufactured machinery.