VARIOUS CABLES.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10138, 16 January 1911, Page 5

VARIOUS CABLES.

The first race for the Northcote Cup between the yacht Cuhvulla JI., representing New South Wales, , and the Killara, representing Victoria, which was to have taken place at Melbourne on Saturday, has been postponed on account of the rough weather. The Culwulla was at the post, and Mr Marks, her owner, was prepared to sail her. He now refuses to contest the race and is returning to Sydney. A case of garrotting occurred in a public lavatory at Brunswick, Melbourne. .'1 man was robbod of £l4. The garrotters escaped. The crime was committed at midday. The position of the coastal steamer Rosedale, which went aground in the Bellinger River, New South Wales, is unaltered: - A salvage .party is being sfent froxii Sydney,. v The Grange," which went ashore at Kangaroo Point, South Australia, lias been re-floated. The Gorman steamer Maria Russ foundered at the Islands of Norderney, one of the Fresian Islands, Hanover. Twelve persons were drowned. A life-boat lias rescued the passengers from the steamer . Selby Abbey, which went ashore near the Hook of Holland, while en route from Hull to Rotterdam. The crew lias also been saved. The steamer Bushmills struck the Nimrod rocks, near Holyhead, oh' Holyhead Island, Wales. The crew of twenty-one' men escaped v« the boats. Earl Cadogan, a grandnepluAV of the first I)tike , of Wellington,' and whose first wife, Lady Beartix Craven, died in 1907, has been- married to the Countess Adele Palagi, a granddaughter of the late Sir George Cadogan. ; Tvyo outbreaks of contagious pneumonia in pigs have occurred in the Hunter River district, New South Wales. " ' : , * . Sigrist, a discharged naval cook, slashed with a knife Rembrandt's picture, "The Night Watch,": in the State Museum, Amsterdam. He lias been arrested. A fire destroyed the Grand Hotel Continental at Montreux, the wellknown winter resort in the canton of Vaud. The guests were rescued through the burning roof. Four hundred and five r men and 162 women committed suicide in Vienna during 1910, and 499 men and • 392 women attempted suicide. Mr Harold Belcher, theatrical agent, was awarded £2OO damages against Lloyd's Weekly News for libel in using his name for that of a character in a serial story, entitled "Motley and Tinsel." A St.. Petersburg cable states thai Mademoiselle Lessma'n,' an aged woman," formerly a prima ballerint at Moscow, became destitute. She was unable to provide food for herself and five great dogs which she owned. Yesterday her mangled body was found, indications pointing to the fact that the ravenous animals killed her after she had gone off in a fainting fit. Three women at Myslowitz, Prussian Selesia, finding that a man had deceived them, lured him to a rendezvous, and blew him to atoms with a dynamite bomb.