YESTERDAY'S CABLES.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10069, 17 August 1910, Page 7

YESTERDAY'S CABLES.

At the Lanark aviation meeting, Grace won £1950, Cuttaneo £1595, Drexel £1355, Radley £I2OO, and Dickson £9OO. Tarrant, the Australian cricketer, who plays for Middlesex, has scored 1200 runs and taken one hundred wickets so far this season. The airship Parseval the Sixth has made its first passenger flight, at Munich. The vessel was in the air for an hour and a half, and carried sixteen passengers. The French Minister for War (General Brun), is forming a Legion of Aviators, and is ordering fifty aeroplanes, for which a credit of two million francs will b& asked for next year. Eastern advices state that, three weeks ago, two boats manned by forty pirates appeared near Darien The Japanese authorities dispatched a police detachment, and shots were exchanged. One boat was upturned. The Ordnance Corps in Hanover discovered two boys, who had been missing since July 30th, in a forage wagon. The lid had fallen- and prevented their escape. The poor boys apparently went mad, and kicked each other until exhaustion and death supervened. At the Richmond Disaster Inquiry, the superintendent of the goods service, when asked if the department "winked at breaches of regulations until accidents happened," hesitated and said that he was placed in a "funny position."