YESTERDAY'S CABLES.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10140, 18 January 1911, Page 3

YESTERDAY'S CABLES.

Great numbers of horses and cattle were drowned in the floods on the South Coast of New South Wales. Miller, an American, has been found tied to a tree at Pout Joinville, Paris. He had been robbed of his clothes and 1000 dollars. A balloon has been found in the lake near Wildenbruch (Pomerania). The bodies of two men were within the car. An attempt was made to wreck the Launceston mail train. A large stone was placed on the line near Hobart. The engine struck it and displaced it. The long continued dispute between rival trades unions at the Shottier ironworks, Flintshire, has ended. It cost the masters and the men £120,000. Advices from Rio de Janiero state that the recent naval'mutiny was the outcome of the use of the lash for offences aboard ship, and started while an offender was receiving 150 lashes. A violent snowstorm is raging on" the Peninsula of Spain, its chief characteristic being its suddenness, and the violent barometrical oscillation with which it is accompanied. The London Standard states that nine English army, captains are reported on credible authority to have won £200,000 at. the Monte Carlo gaming tables in a fortnight. Owing to the expected' failure of the maize crops in South America through prolonged drought, 3800 labourers have embarked for Europe since Christinas. The Council of the Printing Federation in London, has declined the masters'.-. offer of fifty-two hours, weekly. The men are seeking, forty-eight hours and are willing to confer with the masters on Wednesday. The Waratah enquiry was occupied in reading Australian depositions, including those of the navigation inspectors, who did not hear anything to denote that the vessel -was unstable. Many witnesses expressed dislike of the Waratah, but others regarded her as a fine ship. Replying to various interrogations, M. Piclion, French Minister of Foreign Affairs, said if the Flushing fortification became a menace, it would be a ground for communicating with the interested powers. The conventions a u.d proceedings of different powers made him hopeful, that the conditions of war would be made more., humane and just.. : ..'■'' , Floods iu the Bairnsdale district of Victoria have destroyed a large area of crops. The damage is estimated at £IO,OOO. The Avon River at Stratford : is in high flood, and the lowlands are submerged. Many sheep are drowned; hundreds are cooped up on small islands. If a further rise occurs they will be lost. The long tunnel in the mine shaft- is Hooded, and is causing serious damage. Sir. George Reid has arranged for Australian seamen . serving aboard ships in- the Commonwealth and Now Zealand, to continue until the cruiser Australians ready in September, 1912. They will then form part of her'crew. The Admiralty suggests that the men 1 should be re-engaged for five years, as their present agreement exoires on March 12th. . The live Moundsditch suspects have appeared at Guildhall. A, constable identified Moroimtzeff (since dead) as one who did the firing. The woman Trassjonski made a statement to the police denying that she was with the other people concerned when the murder was done. She did attend Morouutzoff after ho had been shot; • but he declined to tell her how he had been shot. Some carcase butchers deny the existence of the reported meat cor? ner in Sydney. They claim that competition in both the local and export trades, is so keen-as to preclude any chance of a corner. No large carcase butchery had changed hands. American buyers were only able to touch the export trade. The.competition, they, nieet with makes it'unprofitable as a proposition. Mutton fit for export >s i limited. - The Commonwealth Department of External Affairs is keeping an eye on the reported influx of Japanese to New Caledonia. It learns of addition arrivals engaged because mineowners required men of exceptional engineering and'mechanical skill. The Department gives little credence to rumours of new arrivals sent for the purpose of watching Australian affairs, and reporting to the Japanese Government. The authorities at Oldenzaal, finding tin; Prussian police had stopped 630 returning Russian emigrants on the grounds that they had inadequate means of subsistence, and confined them for several days in barracks, telephoned the Prussian authorities and finally accepted the offer of a. shipping company, which brought them to Amsterdam to furnish a guarantee of transit through Prussia.