VARIOUS CABLES.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10151, 30 January 1911, Page 3

VARIOUS CABLES.

A woman lias died in a Sydney hospital after being two months unconscious, as the result of a street accident.

In a billiard match at Cardiff, Gray, the young Australian player, made a break of 30.92.

Sir Newton Moore, ex-Premier, will proceed to London to represent Western Australia as Agent-Gen-eral.

Mr Duigan, an engineer, of Melbourne, iias invented and built a biplane aerial machine. Several successful short flights have been made. As the outcome of the non-rcnoival of the commercial treaty between Bulgaria and-Turkey, the former will commence a tariff war to-morrow.

One hundred and fifty-one cases of enteric fevor, fourteen of which were fatal, at Eccles, Lancashire, have been traced to tho consumption

of ice-cream

■ The master printers of London have resolved, as their offer to submit the dispute to arbitration was rejected, to- resist the men's demands.

The British Government has intimated to boards of guardians that they will not be required to repay ths amount of out-relief saved 1 through old-age pensions being granted to paupers.

With an amendment of the Industrial Disputes Act, the Government of New South Wales intends to provide that every worker may belong to an industrial organisation. ..

J Three prisoners escaped from | Sing-Sing prison, in New York J State. They beat down the guards [. and crossed Hudson river on the ice. The escapees • have not yet been recaptured. The trustees of Mr Carnegie's Hero Fund have awarded medals to Doctor Johnston and two men who carried Detective Leesoii into safety when wounded in the encounter with Anarchists in Sydney Street, London.

Dr Richard Strauss's comic opera "Rosen Kavalier," has been produced at Dresden. The piece nad an enthusiastic reception. There were eighteen curtain calls at the end of the second act.

The Appeal Court at J3oma, administrative capital of the Congo Free State, acquitted Major Arnold, who was sentenced to imprisonment in March, i 909, on charges of murder and robbery. - The General Purposes Committee of the Port of London Authority recommends the immediate expenditure of four millions towards a total of fourteen and a half millions required lor port improvements.

As the result of a conference between Government officials and commercial men, the Foreign Office, Germany, has decided that in futuro candidates for..the Consular service must possess a practical knowledge of commerce, industry, and shipping.

"Politicians at Ottawa think the re- j ciprocity bargain with the American Government goodwill view of what is , usually granted by. the United. States 1 . the new treaty between ' .Japan' and States 2)9, mention is made of cOOlli? iininignition, which the State's-: wanted .restricted.

In consequence of a gas explosion at a steel works at Perigeux, France, in tlio department of Dorclogne, six persons were killed and twelve injured.

The indications are that not more than 60 per cent, of the available boys will be registered under the New South Wales Defence scheme jby the end of the month, The Act provides a penalty up to £lO for neglect to register.

The death rate anions English and Welsh, children during 1910 was 106 per thousand, establishing a record. These figures represent a saving of a hundred and fifty-one. .thousand lives in the year, as compared with the rate in 1904.

"Peter the Painter," who is-want-ed by the police in connection with the Houndsditcli murders, is . described by an acquaintance as a man of intellectual attainments and a' great Continental Anarchist organiser. It is believed that he was one of the chief organisers of the Russian revolution of 1905, and that he is wanted by the Russian police. . At a meeting, at Sydney, of the directors of the Radium Hill Company, the metallurgist reported that he had treated three tons of ore, which yielded an average of eight milligrammes of radium bromide per ton, worth £2O per milligram ;' also thirty pounds of uranium oxide, worth ten shillings a pound. He recommended the Board to proceed with the erection of the plant. The Labour Conference, .sitting at Sydney, approved the Federal referendum .proposals. The /speakers against altering the State powers included Messrs McGowen (Premier of New South Wales), Holman (Attorney-General), Nielsoh (Minister for Lands). The referenda proposals were discussed in camera.