YESTERDAY'S CABLES.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10157, 31 December 1910, Page 3

YESTERDAY'S CABLES.

There have been serious fights i:i the Cason mine, .it Johannesburg. One native was beaten to a. pulp, and 70 wounded. Fighting was renewed, one being killed and several fatally injured. : Edward Mylius has been arrested in London for sedition in selling the Liberator, published in Paris and containing attacks on the King. Mr Justice Evans is hearing the case privately. Henry Gehring Cleveland won the middle-weight wrestling championship from Walter Willoughby, at Buffalo, with two straight falls. Lloyd's losses for the year are six million, including £300,000 on the Waratah and £750,000 on the Pericles. The Belgian steamer Baltique sank in a collision in the North Sea, and six persons were drowned. Mr Gladstone's statue in the Strand was decorated on the anniversary of his birthday. The Times states that British Gambia is likely to be ceded to a foreign Power. Three submarines start in January for Malta and three for Gibraltar. These are the first boats to leave on foreign service. The battleships "Triumph" and "Swiftsure" reinforce the China fleet. The Arch-Duke Franz Ferdinand, heir-presumptive, on behalf of the Emperor, received the presidents of delegations, who made speeches of homage. He expressed the Emperor's gratification at the peaceful abroad, and said the increase in the navy vote was justified, in view of the analagous preparations of all the other Powers. Bishop Olier, head of the South Seas Roman mission, emphatically denies Dr. Brochard's allegations against the Martist Brothers on Wallis Island. Bishop Olier further alleges that Dr. Brochard has been recalled as a direct result of a petition from the native king to the French authorities. Dr. Brochard had started to annoy the priests as soon as he arrived and attempted to have the superior deported, but had failed. Mrs Joyce denies the published report that the Women's Emigration Association censured the West Australian system of dealing with female immigrants. She considered it superior to that of some other States, because travelling matrons were regularly employed. Five were killed and fifty injured in the explosion of powder in the Slag Pile Smelting Company's works at Elpaso, all Mexicans. Mrs Mary Clarke, sister of Mrs Pankhurst, the well-known Women's Franchise leader, is dead. Death was due to heart disease. Mrs Clarke was released on Friday, after she had undergone- imprisonment in connection with the disturbances cabled on 23rd November. An elder of the Lutheran Church at Petcrhoff, Russia, by mistake poured a mixture of sulphuric acid and chromato of potassium into the chalice. Of thirty-two partakers of the eucharist who are ill three have died. There are 5016 Congregational, churches in Britain, with 493,583 communicants, 706,041 Sunday scholars; there are 412,680 baptised Baptists in Britain, and 576,448 Sunday scholars; there are 65,048 Baptists churches in the world, with a baptised membership of 6,715,211. The Baptist congregations altogether total 20,000,000." A bag of mails, sent to London on October 25th, was opened in England and then for some unaccountable reason, rosealed and dispatched for Aus- < tralia, arriving in Launceston on TuAßflu-V.. .ami./»ftiifn.Sn«r»«» --'" u * " _,, ,_, over si... Hundred letters for England. The Times' Paris correspondent states that a small group of deputies is safeguarding the interests of the Jibuti, Somaliland, traders. The group is connected with some economic groups, forming 4i formidable combination. The Government, moreover, is anxious that the arms traffic between Jibuti and Muscat should he part of a wider settlement, but Britain is reluctant to contemplate sacrifice.