YESTERDAY'S CABLES.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10152, 31 January 1911, Page 3

YESTERDAY'S CABLES.

Count von Rex, Minister at Pekiu, lias been appointed Ambassador at Tokio.

The State Serotherapeutic Institute, Vienna, ispending 10,000 phials oi plague serum to China.

Fifteen cases of cholera, of which eight have proved fatal, are reported from Perim.

The Playgoers Club, London, entertained thousands of the poorest children at pantomimes.

During a. drunken brawl at W'allau, Victoria, five navvies pulled another out of his tent, battered his head to a pulp, and killed him.

Renter states tJiat the EcuadorPeru frontier dispute lias culminated in open hostilities, at several points on the frontier.

The Hamburg-America steamship Company's gross profits for i9lO were £2,000,000. They declared an 8 percent dividend.

Gray, the Australian billiardist, scored 9000, including a break of 1340, in a match against Duncan, who scored 4150.

The airship Beta made a journey from Farnborough to Portsmouth and back, keeping up wireless communication throughout with Headquarters.

Pillage of waggons at Vaugirard station, France, of bales of cotton and farm produce, occur to the extent of £40,000 annually. The waggons are insufficiently guarded.

The Reichstag referred to a committee the proposed Constitution of Alsace-Lorraine. The Alsatian Deputies opposed the Bill, on the ground that it was inadequate.

Hunger riots lias occurred at Puscaglia, Italy, in consequence of taxes on food-stuffs. The mob invaded the Town Hall, but the military expelled them.

The Persian Government has compensated Britain and Russia for outrages on their respective subjects, including the murder of two Sepoys, who were escorting the Consul from Bushire to Shiraz.

America strongly protested to the Porte,, owing to soldiers, when voyaging aboard the steamer New Jersey, assaulting the consular agent at Alexandretta, because he intervened to prevent a riotous outbreak.

"Tributes to the memory of the late Sir Charles Dilke have been- received from all parts, including one from the King of Greece. The Greek Government sent a wreath to the funeral, which took place yesterday'.

The occupant of a motor car, outside Ensden's, jeweller, of Belgravia, engaged Ensden in conversation on the pavement, while an accomplice entered the premises and stole £SOO worth of diamonds, rushed, into the car, and was driven off rmtraced.

The borings for the foundations of a great harbour scheme at Singapore, are found in some instances to be sixty feet wrong. Cook and Son, and Matthews (engineer) blame the Straits Settlement Works Department for the miscalculations.

Owing to Dr. Lacliand pointing out thai £380,000 was spent annually' on-horse-breeding in France, compared with £7OOO on physical culture for mei, the Government is opening six military gymnasia, and is creating advanced courses of .Civil physical instruction.

The District Magistrate at Karachi (India) has forwarded a statement alleging that an Indian,-four years ago, stole a black boy at Port Hedland, and now has him in India as a working slave. The statement alleges that the Indian's brother beat the boy's mother and hunted her away while he led the boy to a ship.

The machine minders, cutters and labourers employed by Spottiswoode and Company, printers and elcctrotypers, of London, have struck. The strikers mobbed tho non-strikers, who were protected.by.the police; Sir Simon Waterlow and Sons, manufacturing stationers, paid their men a week's wages in lieu of notice.

It is officially announced by the Duke of Con naught, that the memorial in front of Buckingham Palace to Queen Victoria , will be unveiled before. the Coronation. The task of the designer (Brock) is not completed, and the figures are in position. The Queen is seated and faces the Mall, with groups on either side, representing Truth and Justice. The figure facing tho Palace symbolises Maternity.

Mr Andrew Bonar Law, M.P., speaking at Manchester, said the Lords, would not pass the Parliament Bill until they were swamped by the creation of new Peers. If so, Home Rule would be the rock on which the Liberal party would split. It was impossible to carry such a measure by fraud. Where such an attempt made the Irish Loyalists would be right to resist by all the means at their command, including force,- and the majority of the British people would .support them.