YESTERDAY'S CABLES.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10148, 26 January 1911, Page 6

YESTERDAY'S CABLES.

Bv Electric Telegraph—P ro:ss Association —Copyright. An outbreak of cholera is reported i from Perim. J The Union Parliament of South f Africa is sending a deputation oi repreventatives to the Coronation. ; The Victorian Minister of Customs j intends to prolrihit the export or < wheat in bags containing over JJOlbs. 1 A National Conference, sitting m } London and representing 600,000 ] . miners, agreed to financially assist I'J,OOO Cambrian strikers. j

The. Turkish Government is increasing the expeditionary force to Yemen, to'suppress tlie rapidly growing revolt. The first transports have started. The Swiss Government has informed , Sir G. Reid that it intends autlioris- J ing towns which have freezing facilities, to import meat. A serious land-slide occurred on a section of the North Coast railway, between Gloucester and Taree, in New South Wales, the damage being estimated at .-£37,000. The Federal Government is taking precautions to prevent unsuitable meat being exported. Additional special officers are appointed in this connection. The Normanton (Queensland) railway lias been interrupted since January 10th, the highest flood on record : being experienced. The country is submerged for miles, and the river cannot be crossed. The Minister of Public A\orks of New South Wales has appointed a committee of. experts to inquire into the running of motor omnibuses and trackless trams, in order to relieve the congested traffic. The United States Treasury is initiating a widespread investigation into wrapper and filler imports. Statistics regarding Cuba" sheny discrepancies involving a loss to the Government of nearly £1,000,000 annually since 1906. The foundling hospital at Khaterinosiav, in Russia,, has been closed, and the staff arrested. One thousand of the 1060 infants received there during the last six months, have died, chiefly of starvation. • k As the recent decision disclosing the methods of .'computing valuations for licenses duties under the British Budget showed that the Budget had operated. with greater severity than » was intended,, Mr Lloyd-George pro- • rnises legislative adjustment.' Herbertshohe, of New Britain, Harry Liversey, 'settler, and two natives in a boat were capsized in a squall. One native swam risliore for assistance;. the others clung to the . boat. Nothing has since been seen of the boat or its occupants." King George has giver. CoO to tlie headquarters fund of the Boy Scouts. The Duke of Connaught, presiding at the annual dinner, stated that 100,000 Scouts were enrolled in Britain. The total throughout the world was 250,000. • ■ Judge Unger, delivering judgment in further cases .arising out of the riots . 'in the Moiibit' quarter ill; 'de--, : clared;. that the- w%e' justified •: r in shooting policemen who were brutally assailing them. Frau Herberich was sentenced to four "and a-half years for shooting her husband. Router states that a contract for salving the s. s. Aotea has been con- ' eluded. Given a-continuance of the present perfect weather, the bulk of the cargo will be .discharged. It will j then be ascertainable whether the vessel is rofloatable as it is hoped she is. The collapse of . a clay-pit at Vinesville, Normandy, entombed two men. The rescuers lowered sixteen loaves, some soup, fifty quarts of " cider, and tobacco. Then, a second collapse occurred cutting off all com-, munication. The rescuers worked day and night for .eleven and a half days. The shaft collapsed four times. The men were eventually rescued. Tlie whole male population of Bulu.wayo met and protested against tlie . Governor-General reprieving a native I. who .had been sentenced to • death for assaulting a white woman. One speaker pointed out that if Lord Gladstone assumed that the conditions in South Africa Mere the same.as iii England, he must be brought to a proper appreciation of the facts, otherwise the whites would take the law into their own hands. ' I I The Pall Mall Gazette publishes a ■ statement that the late King Leopold 11. of the Belgians, was exasperated and alarmed at the humanitarian agitation concerning the Congo, that he appealed to Germany for protection, and agreed to an invasion of Franco through Belgium. This,plan, after the death of- Leopold, fell into hands ! which communicated it to' France. The Correspondent declares that ex- , i perienced chiefs of the diplomatic sorJ vices of the Continent, believe the I rumour to be true. • r