YESTERDAY'S CABLES

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10110, 4 October 1910, Page 6

YESTERDAY'S CABLES

The Federal Government has ordered a further quantity of silver coinage, to the value of £200,000.

A quantity of wreckage, including a beat without a name on it, has been found at Straight's Island, Tasmania. It is supposed that a steamer has been wrecked.

While a goods train was standing on a loop near the main line at

Tarana Station, N.S.W,, another goods train came into collision with it. A brake van and several trucks were smashed, but nobody was injured.

Two donations—one of £50,000 and one of £25,000 —have been received towards the Welsh National Sanatorium, which is to be erected as a memorial to the late King Edward.

Mr Harold Harmsworth has offered Cambridge University £20,000 for a professorship of English language and literature, and the Drapers' Company has offered £23,000 to build a physiological laboratory.

A Parisian danseuse who was tenderly attached to M. Poillot, the aviator, who was killed a week ago through falling from his machine near Charters, committed suicida by shooting herself with a revolver on his grave in Montmartre Cemetery, in Paris.

A wireless telegram from the Makura, 994 miles north on her trip to Vancouver, states that a slowaway crawled from the engineroom ventilator, where he had been for two and a half days in a roasting temperature. Ha had only a bottle of water and three sandwiches.

At the London wool sales good wools were exceedingly firm, but shabby and faulty sorts, especially scoureds, were irregular, with considerable withdrawals. Of the total amount catalogued 43,890 bales were sold.