YESTERDAY'S CABLES.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10139, 17 January 1911, Page 6

YESTERDAY'S CABLES.

Italy has finally decided to add two Dreadnoughts to the four previously arranged for., ■lt is officially announced that King ■ George and Queen Mary will visit Calcutta next winter. Mr Fisher states that Australia can yet negotiate with Canada for ii mail from Australia to Vancouver. The Government is arranging for the construction of a railway connecting, the Nigeria tin-fields at Bauche with the Baro-kano trunk line. , Four 'arrests, have been, made at Ogdeu, U.S.A. It is believed they are' the men who held up the Southern Pacific Express on January Ist. During a stormy debate in-the Wes-_ tralian Assembly on the Redistribution of Seats Bill, six members were suspended on different occasions for disobeying the chair. English shipowners are not perturbed' regarding the threatened sailors' I and firemen's international strike, !, during the Coronation period. Orbell, ! organiser of the Dockers' Union, is I sceptical, possibly owing to.lack of orj ganisation. The steamer Time is ashore at Beachport North, South Australia, and is a total wreck. The crew landed safely. The vessel was proceeding to Melbourne with a cargo of salt, when she struck the rocks during a fog. The steamer Ky'arra stood by and rendered assistance. . ' Jackie Clarke and Ernest Pye (Australians) won the six days' bicycle race from Buffalo to New York, - and covered 1251 miles, 36 miles over last year's record on the same track. The officials declare that the winners' performance is unequalled under,similar conditions. The widow of the mining engineer blown up in.the explosion-on the San Francisco ferry boat, asserts that her husband was murdered, and never suicided.' Her husband feared a man who shadowed him. He worked for years in South Africa, and was named Norborn, originally a Norwegian. Seven hundred tons of Argentine frozen meat are in transit to Italy. The shipping gazette says there are indications that the Continental peoples are about to open their ports for the freer importation of food supplies. A great impetus in ocean carrying trade is expected. Efforts are being made in Canada to organise an ex-South African campaigners filibustering expedition in Mex- | ico, and the revolutionaries have made \ offers in several Canadian cities (in-

eluding Vancouver) of £2OO per "month. It is understood the money is furnished by wealthy corporations, hoping to benefit by the overthrow of the Diaz dictatorship.

A judicial inquiry into social vice at Winnipeg exonerates the police and finds that lack- of supervision lias caused a large increase of undesirables. Much illicit liquor selling is a groat menace to public morals. The-civic" and' provincial authorities are blameworthy. The inquiry followed charges made by a loading clergyman smd the. Moral Social Reform 'Council of Canada.