VARIOUS CABLES.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10157, 6 February 1911, Page 6

VARIOUS CABLES.

The Fii>mce Committee of the Sydney Council has reeom-. mend' A considerable increases in the • claries of tho principal civic offiWs. r"The steamer Frankdale mafic the /hip from Sydney to Valparaiso and back in nfty-r.ino and a half days—a record. Irish blight continues to spread in Victoria. Twelve potato areas have been quarantined. Railway improvements are contemplated by the Victorian State Government, involving expenditure of over a m- ion. The Persian Mejliss (Council of Ministers) has ratified tho appointment of five American financial advisers. The New South Wales Rifle Asso- ■ ciation has been advised that a Brit- I ish rifle team will be unable to visit J Australia this year, owing to the Coronation. Lord Roberts characterises General Sir lan Hamilton's recently-pub-lished book on "Compulsory Service" as mischievous, unfair, and wrong in every point. A crowd rushing to enter a train at New York knocked down a fif-teen-year-old girl, who was trampled to death. * j The Tranent Colliery in Hadding-1 toushire, Scotland, lias been closed after working six'.centuries. Hundreds of workman have been rendered idle. It was the Spanish steamer A banto—not Lepaiito, as cabled yesterday—that was wrecked on the eastern coast of Spain. It is reported that the New Zealand Shipping Company's steamer Ruahine, ' which was injured in a collision a few days ago, has sailed from Las Palmas. A new gusher has broken.put at Apac'heron, near Maikop, in- Northern Caucasia, yielding half a million pounds of naptha daily. At a ujeeting of Lloyd*s.Bank, a record profit of a million was reported, notwithstanding a "depreciation in Consols of £220,000. A. Birch, the jockey, has died at London from the result of an accident at the Gatwick meeting in 1906. Birch rode Moifaa, the New I Zealand -horse,, when he won the Liverpool Grand National Steeplechase in 1.9^4. Senator Pcarce, Federal Minister of proposes to ask the Admi r ait v "for tbe temporai'y use of ;.rmser Psyche as a training s' -or the Australian navy. ;-Ho h-r :dso asked the Admiralty to rr mend an officer to act as Direct i' of the Naval College. Recruits fur A\ service a— coining in well. Tests of coal from the" VuV State mine at Sydney show r.'M.' jhardness and calorific value, r / gas-making purposes, it i? inf ■-■ t Newcastle coal. The, grc--- t ■:'• I? f:t is its friability, whjHh does. n<-, allr.w handling for shipment.-