VARIOUS CABLES.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8550, 8 October 1907, Page 5

VARIOUS CABLES.

ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION. Received October 7, 8.39 a.m. CAPETOWN, October 6. The Antarctic vessel Nimrod has arrived here. She fully equals expectations. The vessel arrives at Lyttelton about November 18th. PRINCE RANJITSINHJI. Received October 7, 8.39 a.m. LONDON, October 6. Prince Ranjitsinhji is coming to England to recuperate after an attack of enteric. • A TERRIBLE PALL. Received October 7, 8.39 a.m. LONDON, October 6. Owing to the rope leaving a pulley in the mine, miners in a cage at Darcy Lever, Lancashire, were precipitated GOO feet through a timber scaffold, into 70 feet of water. TRADES' UNION CONFERENCE. Received October 7, 9.39 p.m. LONDON. October 7. A conference at Manchester of various Trades' Unions, representing 138,000 workers, approved of the principle of federation, and adjourned to enable the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants, which was informally represented, to send delegates. POPULATION OF GREATER LONDON, Received October 7, 9.39 p.m. LONDON, October 7. The population of Greater London numbers 7,217,939.

TRAINING CHAUFFERS. A SCHOOL ESTABLISHED IN BERLIN. Rsceived October 7, 11 p.m. BERLIN, October 7. A school has been established at Berlin for the thorough training of chauffers. They will be subjected to a final test trip prior to the granting of certificates. A STRENUOUS PROTEST. Received October 7, 10.31 p.m. BERLIN, October 7. An apparently . semi-officially inspired article in the Cologne Gazette strenuously protests against the attempt of the French newspapers to show that Germany, in view of the present unfavourable condition of her money market, is unable to bear the cost of her belief that preparedness for war is essential to the support uf peace, and declares that the attempts to undermine it are veryreprehensible. The article proceeds to show that the animadversions of the French newspapers are baseless.