THE NEWCASTLE CREEP.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9033, 21 January 1908, Page 5

THE NEWCASTLE CREEP.

CABLE NEWS.

United Press Association -Hy Electric Telegraph copyright.

BELIEVED TO HAVE EXPENDED ITS ENERGY.

Received January 20, 9.40 a.m. SYDNEY, January 20. It is believed that the Newcastle "creep," having reached the fcot of "The Hill," has expended its energy. The usual services were held in the Cathedral, but a portion was roped off as unsafe. GERMAN NAVY LEAGUE. A STORMY MEETING. FURTHER SECESSIONS. Received January 21, 12.13 a.m. BERLIN, January 20. \ A stormy scene at an extraordinary general meeting of ths % Ger'man Navy League at Cassel ended in the secession of the Bavarian ai d Sou h German delegates [after the North German members had adopted a resoldtion expressing unbounded confidence in the Executive Committee, including General Keitn, president of the League. It is expected that Prince Rupert of Bavaria will be president of the new South German Navy League, which it is intended to form. RESCUE OF ENTOMBED MINERS. FORTY-SIX .DAYS IN A SHAFT. Received January 21, 12.3 a.m. NEW YORK, January 20. Three miners named Bailey, Brown and Mac Donald, who have been entombed in the Alpha shaft at the Giroiox mine in Ely, Nevada, since December 4th, have been rescued. Air and food were supplied to them for 46 days through a six-inch pipe. When the men were brought to the surface they seemed well'and laughed and joked. The whole town is extraordinarily excited over the rescue. MISAPPROPRIATION OF BANK FUNDS. AN OFFICIAL CONVICTED. Received January 20, 10.30 p.m. NEW YORK,, January 20. Walsh, president of the defunct Chicago National Bank, has been convicted on a charge of misappropriation. He admitted lending sixteen million dol!a~s of the bank's funds to assist struggling enterprises. ASIATICS IMMIGRATION. MR CHURCHILL MAKES A SUGGESTION. Received Januiary 20, 9.16 p.m. LONDON, January 20. At the National Liberal Club banquet, Mr Winston Churchiil, refei - - ring to his recent travels, said that he was astonished at the beauty, fertility, and resources of the countries that he had visited. He did not dispute the right of the Transvaal and Australia to make what arrangements they thought necessary in respect to Asiatic immigration. It was entirely within the authority deliberately conceded to them, and he hoped the nation and Parliament would honestly try to grasp the colonists point of view with regard to the matter and understand their difficulties. Mr Churchill suggested that the equatorial provinces of Africa might supply a compensating field for a colonizing enterprise of British Indians. CHINA AND ITAPAN. CONSTRUCTION OF A RAILWAY. JAPAN PROTESTS. Received TOKIO, January 20. The action of China in defiantly disregarding Japan's protests against the proposed Hsinminting-Takumen railway is causing surprise and indignation in Tokio. 1 Japan has made three protests, the last one just prior to China signing agreements with a British syndicate for the construction of the railway.