YESTERDAYS CABLES.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10155, 29 December 1910, Page 3

YESTERDAYS CABLES.

Arch. Hoxscy, an American, established a world's flying record at Los Angelos, reaching a height of 11,474 feet, fie was given an ovation l>y a crowd of eighty thousand people who followed his descent. In ascending, Hoxsey faced a forty-mile gale. Alarmist rumours are current at Yladivostock as to tension between China and Japan. The "Novoe Yrcmya" says Russia is not directly interested in the Dutch fortifications, and it is able to view the matter from the objective standpoint. It declares that Holland is acting under Gorman pressure, and it would be only natural, if the Powers guaranteeing Belgium neutrality entered a protest. At the Indian Rationalist Congress at Allahabad, eight hundred delegates were present. Sir William Weclderhurn, president, appealed to the officials to accept the reform policy ungrudgingly, and so secure the early repeal of the repressive measures. He warned the Indian Government not to alloAv the new spirit of independence to degenerate into race prejudice. A long apprenticeship was necessary before India could stand alone. He was confident that the Congress would guide the people into paths to secure self-government within the Empire. Mount Etna has renewed its activity and is throwing out stones. The Duke of Connaught will have supreme command of the troops at the Coronation. Three thousand navals will participate. Two hundred and sixty three bodies have been recovered from the Pretoria mine. The Johannesburg Conciliation Board is considering the demand of the stonemasons for 3s per hour, and a 44-hours' week. Evidence was given that a man and his wife and three children cannot live in reasonable comfort, on less than £6 a week. For the first time in forty years, Christmas was not celebrated at. the Vatican. The Pope, under medical advice, did not hold the Midnight Mass. The Governor of Mozambique proposes that Government officials alone shall recruit natives for the Rand, and that repatriation shall be enforced, otherwise the country will be depopulated. A disease, due to flooded and swampy pastures, is decimating sheep in France. The Victorian Defence-Department estimates that 100,000 senior cadets Avill commence training under the new system, on July Ist. Fatalities from black damp in Westralia occurred at Wallsend proprietary colliery. A party of seven was engaged in inspecting, when the black damp rose from the fire in the old workings. Five of the party collapsed and the other two dragged them to safety, but Bird, underground boss and Hann, deputy underground boss, died.