YESTERDAY'S CABLES.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10132, 10 January 1911, Page 7

YESTERDAY'S CABLES.

A terrible drought is being experienced in South-western Orangia, in South Africa. No rain has fallen for two years, and thousands of sheep are dying, fodder being almost exhausted. Loud complaints arc made against the lack of irrigation There are forty thousand Russian refugees in Paris, nine-tenths of whom are Jews. The Carnegie Trust Company of New York has suspended operations. By a landslide at Rio Pinto copper mines in Spain, five men were killed .and five injured in addition to others who have not yet been extricated. A meeting in the Sydney domain, of International Socialists protested against the callous, cowardly, and inhuman action of British authorities, in doing to death by.barbarous methods two men of the Anarchist Club in London. The British Government has contracted with the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company for a fortnightly service to the West Indies. The amount is £63,000 sterling, whereof Trinidad contributes £20,000. The British subsidy in addition to the existing contract of £25,000. Seven miners were suffocated by fire in a sulphur mine at Tufo, in Italy. ' Thirty-eighJb Camorrists charged with the murder of Curcot's wife on June stb, 1906, were conveyed from Naples to Viterbo in an. armoured train. Armed patrols were stationed along the line to prevent a rescue. In response to the German post office request, the shipping lines which are in receipt of German mail subsidies, and denouncing their contracts - with the Marconi Company, and substituting the '-'Telefunker" system. The BoK;»n Mining Disaster Relief Fund closea with £IQO,OOO.

The investigation of the affairs of the Siberian railway has ended. Ninety thousand complaints were examined, and defalcations amounting to at leust twenty million roubles wore discovered. High officials, who frequently did not give documents, pocketed the freights. Many non-existent and dead persons' pay-sheets were also discovered.

Six deaths occurred at St. Antonio (Texas) as'a result of eating poisoned bread.

The French cruiser Montcalm, has arrived at Sydney from Noumea. She is making.a cruise round thes-world. It is reported.that Rev. Shackle, Methodist' missionary, at > : Ontong, (Java) has been deported to the Solomon Islands by order of the Resident Commissioner.; The alleged ground for this action was 'Shackle's: desecration•':. ofv a' irativ^Vtpmple'v and;; flogging a native. " '"" ''■'"' '

Delegates to the Science Congress, in Sydney, include T. S. Reed, secretary of the South Australian Geological Society, hale and hearty, at the age of £2. He has lived under six monarchs, and was present at* the second meeting of the British Association for Advancement of Science in 1837. The Federal Government has decided to add to-the questions for consideration at the Imperial Conference that of co-operation in mutual relations with the Naval military forces of the United Kingdom and the Dominions, and the status of Dominion navies.

Thirteen prisoners, including the anarchist assailants of the President (Suintana and Alcorta), have escaped from custody at Buenos Ayres, by boring a tunnel under the prison wall. Several sentinels have been arrested. It is reported that 26 mutineers undergoing imprisonment in Rio de. Janiero, died of sunstroke while repairing the d»sfences of the Island of Cobras. Nineteen others succumbed to suffocation in the prisom cells.

Captain Burke; of the Army Air Corps, was aeroplaning at Aldershot, when the rudder snapped and he fellfifty feet, but escaped with -bruises. His Farman .biplane was wrecked. On the occasion of the Coronation the larger part of the' Cullman, diamond, now called the . Star of. Africa, which was presented to the Royal Family, will be set in the sceptre, making it the most magnificent in the world. The smaller portion will be set in the front of the Crown, below the Black Prince's ruby, in place of the, great oblong sapphire, which will be transferred to the back of the .'Crown'. " ..