YESTERDAY'S CABLES.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10158, 7 February 1911, Page 3

YESTERDAY'S CABLES.

Eight inches of rain fell at Rockhamptoh and nine inches at Gladstone, (Queensland) on Friday.. \ At Rockhampton all the wharves and a portion of the town are inundated, and in certain'streets the water is some feet deep. The town reservoir has burst. Railway traffic beyond the flooded areas is suspended. Latest reports state that the rain is clearing, and the floods are commencing to recede.

The bodies of three Chinese, the victims of a murderous band of Mexican smugglers, have been found in a deep gully at Nagales, Arizona. The surviving Chinamen swore that the smugglers agreed to guide five Chinamen across the desert into the United States, but they shot and robbed them instead. .

, A convict, at Moscow, pretending he required material for his work, suddenly shot a warder with a revolver. Two other warders rushed up, and the convict killed both. Two other convicts then armed themselves with the revolvers of the dead warders, and joined the murderer, barricading the storeroom. They killed a fourth warder, and' dangerously wounded a fifth. The military surrounded.the convicts, who eventually surrendered.

Lord Curzon, speaking at Sheffield, denied that the National Service League advocated conscription. They favoured compulsory training, building up a national physique, and giving the people a greater voice in controlling the destinies of the country. Of all the fantastic charges, the absurdest was that national training would encourage Jingoism. "Fancy!" said the speaker, "Jingoism in Switzerland or oppression from Norway!"

In connection with the, investigation arising out of a reported discovery of phenomenally rich ore in the Chaffinch mine, Western Australia, subsequent to a heavy slump in shares, warrants have.been .issued for the armrest of Bonwiek (mining agent), Dyason '(mining ■•investor),- arid Greenway-,' \) (mine"• jnatiager), on a charge of a ' spiracy,'toi-defraud, thei public; Dyasoh has been arrested in Melbourne. '' At the postal employees meeting in Sydney, strong) complaints were voiced that the service was under-manned, under-paid, and overworked and, generally,* in a chaotic condition. Though strike methods were deprecated, it was stated that the patience of the employees was exhausted; and if they failed to get redress from the Postmaster-General ,or Parliament, there was at least the ballot box, and they would exercise their power there. The Parliament of British Columbia ruled out of order, a Socialist resolution denouncing the recent execution of Japanese anarchists. Tvi'o Armenians, using revolvers, seriously wounded Said-ed-owleh, Persian Minister of Finance, while he was returning from a of the National Assembly. The would-be assassins escaped. '■'*. The International Arbitration League', London, has issued, a manifesto, signed by a thousand leaders of the working classes, including foi-ty-two Labour members of the House of against compulsory militarism.. It 'declares.'that the compulsory syste.m is supported by a wealthy'conspiracy and a , reactionary Press, I against the liberties of the workers, j The manifesto adds: "Compulsion in any form is bad, and Home defence I does not need it."