YESTERDAY'S CABLES.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10152, 23 December 1910, Page 7

YESTERDAY'S CABLES.

Mr Asquith, on being presented with the freedom of the city of Edinburgh, urged the cities to grapple with social questions. Lord Rosebery was present. _ . The trial is proceeding at Leipzig of Brandon and Trench, charged with espionage. Accused admitted visiting German naval stations and collecting information for a person connected with the inteligence bureau of the Admiralty.

The King will be represented at the policemen's funeral. Selinska and other women were charged with being accessories to the murders, and burning incriminating papers. They were remanded.

.Speaking at the Colonial Institute, Mr James Buckland deplored the dc-1 struction of colonial plumage birds. Only fifty two tails of Au?t.ralian lyre birds were catalogued at this season's London sales. The plumed egret, emu. and the- blue bird o>: Paradise were suffering similarly. A Chinese smuggling inquiry at Vancouver disclosed the fact that as many aa sixty stowaways were bidden in caverns forward of the coal bunkers in Oriental liners. The i* watchman at Vancouver was drugged by Chinese, in older that the stowaways might land. Some sailors acted in collusion with the Chinese. The watchman was appointed according to a patronage list kept at Ottawa by the Government. The Times states that Mr Buxton, : President of the Beard of Trade, has 'arranged wich the chief Atlantic companies for defer re j cablegrams in plain language at 6d per word. The consent of Germany and France is anticipated without difficulty. An agreement ha 3 been reached between the mineowners and miners at Broken Hill, by which there shall be no cessation of work pending settlement of the men's claims on the improved conditions. At the Moodie inquest m Melbourne the Government analyst deposed to finding considerable quantities of arsenic- in the intestine of Mrs K.oodie and her two daughters. Olive Moodie was committed for trial on a charge of murdering her mother and two sisters. The Coroner declared that it was clear the three women were poisoned, and Olive Mcodie constantly attended them. Bail £IOOO was allowed.