YESTERDAY'S CABLES.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10111, 5 October 1910, Page 7

YESTERDAY'S CABLES.

The judgment in the case Varawa v. Howard Smith Company, in which the plaifltiff wa3 awarded .£SOOO damages and costs has been set aside by the Full Court o! Victoria. The English Post Office authorities are arranging to employ girls in stead of boys as indoor messengers in the post offices. Many Catholic demonstrations are being made in the large cities of Spain. The Republicans broke up the assemblies In several towns after street fights, and the gendarmerie in Madrid dispersed a gathering with t,e flat of their sabres. President Taft declares that the economy desired by critics of the Government is not possible if the popular programme of expenditure is to be carried out. Nine thousand seven hundred new officas, the President stales, were created dur'ng the recent session of Congress. -

The police at Cracow, in Gaiicia, raided a revolutionary organisation of Russian refugees. They arrested thirty ringleaders, and discovered wagon loads of Mannlicher rifles. Browning pistols, dynamite grenades, and compromising document?. Mr P. B. Broadhurst, of the firm of Tootal, Broadhurst and Co., manufacturers, of Manchester, committed suicide in a fit of temporary insanity. The steamer Annaberg, 463 tons, belonging to the German-Australian Line, ia three days overdue at Melbourne from Agoa Bay. A woman named Mrs MaciUonald j pneumonia in Melbourne.,. and while the funeral was proceed- i ing her husband died from the same I complaint. A week ago both were hale and in the prime o* life. Judge Gaynor, Mayor of New York, has been re-elected to th& office for another term. The labourers engaged on the permanent way for the trams at Launceston have struck for an increase of a shilling a day. Plenty of cheapei labour is available. A Theatrical Choristers' and Bal-let-ladies' Association of Melbourne has been registered. The Austro Hungarian and Italian Foreign Ministers have met in conference in Turin. Public announcements regarding the meeting emphasise lha identity of Austrian and Italiau views. The military correspondent of The Times quotes from the reports of French military aviators to show that their machines were absolutely exact id thair flight?, and unveiled the disposition of the eremy in an incredibly short time.

At London wool sales there was a brisk sale for all good sorts, but many withdrawal of shabby and second-hand lots, The clips sold in dude: "Pura," top price lid per lb, average 10£ d; "Utiia." 12£ d and lid; "Tecuma," lid and 10gd; "Opoki," 12d and 10gJ; ""Kaputune," 23£ d arid V'Zhl. An interesting feature of the Baptist Congress in St. Petersburg, apart from the despatch of greetings to Australian Baptists, was the laying of the foundation stone of the first Russiqn Baptist Church by the Rev. Mr Parker, an Australian delegate.

A deputation from the Kauri Timber Company to the. Federal Minister of Customs asked that the duties on kauri and white pine should he regarded as anomalies, and . that increases were unwarranted. Mr Tudor promise:! to give the matter consideration. Any, tariff alterations made this seasion, he paid, would deal only with anomalies.