YESTERDAY'S CABLES.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10136, 14 January 1911, Page 7

YESTERDAY'S CABLES.

Yesterday';: • fcorm-wind at Sydney attained a'velocity of 53 miles. In she.: harbour the shipping was, inconmany buiMiiigs roofed. At Orange, gas-holders full of gas were blown over. The town is now depending on 5 a small inadequate holder for its supply.i The Melbourne tramway employees' working hours are reduced from • fifty-four to forty-eight weekly. The iron-moulders' strike at Bris- j bane\is settled. The men are rei turning on an increase of one shilling , |, daily. Of the thirty-five Moahit rioters tried, one was sentenced to three and a half ;; :ixrs for striking'a policeman j'anoibcv'to eighteen months; the rest from oue to nine months' imprisonment. The German .Court reported that the police far exceeded their powers, but had a difficult duty, and the Court was convinced they had not'acted with- sheer bru-,! tality. The Sydney Daily Telegraph says Mr Beeby found a happy, thriving people in New Zealand, and that was ■What unprejudiced New Zealanders find in New South Wales. Mr Beeby said he found no slums in New Zealand. The question is, "Would there be slums in. Wellington, iT it were as feigns Sydney or Melbourne?" , A travelled'.! cuperficial impressions..of ■'..corop'ari'.'tro prosperity are not very " 'fc'rustwo:• ; .;;iy.. The-'- pleasant truth is that all Australasian communities are enjoying a high degree .of. genuine prosperity!'" It hoped"that Mr Beeby had learned that the New Zealand community may indulge in advanced legislation without possessing an organised Labour Party. He could have learned it in Australia, but it was obstrusively visible in Now Zealand.

A surprise was sprung on Sydney last night by a strike of 1200 employees of the Australian Gaslight Coi'npany. The trouble has been Wowing for some time. It started through the Company dismissing an employee who v:i<?- a member of the Union, who was ;jund asleep at his post. To-night's development was quite unexpect;*!. a speedy settlement is made th?: city will be without a gas supply. There is only sufficient supply for to-morrow night. The police at Munich broke up a mooting of Anarchists and arrested twenty-two, aged from 20 to 30. Highly compromising papers were ' seized.. '•:,..'..' . The Victorian Minister of Defence has decided: to give -military- officii preference as w : r.-"!o"•>:elevators. Some low-lying suburbs of Syl'X'y j'aro flooding. Fv.--.ds are reported : from other part" t' the country.