YESTERDAY'S CABLES.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10159, 8 February 1911, Page 7

YESTERDAY'S CABLES.

The Population of Prussia.is now 40,057,573. ■ . / -.!-■

■ A preliminary survey 1 of the Eastern has,revealed damage amidships. She wjll be docked-!at South Brisbane. ;

A party of .Riffs .(natives of northern Morocco) attacked live Europeans, and'tilled, four, near Oran.

The Privy Council has refused rn add the Red Dragon of Wales to tW Royal Standard and the coinage.

, 4 family of eight children were poisoned at Berne with bad margarine. Threoare dead, and three are dangerously ill.

Shepherd; the Australian amateur champion'wrestler, is proceeding . to England, where he will probably represent New: So\ith Wales at the Coronation festivities.

The Times' Paris correspondent reports that the Turkish Government has expressed the desire to negotiate/ with Britain over the Persian Gulf problem.

. Recording a verdict/ of accidental .death in connection with' the drowning/a Sydney coroner suggested the appointment of a permanent lifesaver at the bathing beaches. . "

Canabalism has reached such an acute stage in the Admiralty Islands, that the German authorities have decided upon drastic action; and they will establish a Government station on the principal island.

An inquiry is proceeding regarding the deaths of throe inmates of the Kew Asylum (Melbourne). Post mortems revealed broken ribs, in each case. All were sufferers from general paralysis of the brain.

A couple of hours previous to the British House of Commons assembling, the Labour Party, after electing Mr Ramsay Mac Donald chairman, 'were photographed in their places in the Chamber, the Speaker giving his.permission for so unusual a proceeding.

The Pall Mall's St. Petersburg correspondent says that Russia has got nearly one thousand one hundred battalions on the Austro-German borders, with a thousand squadrons and five.hundred batteries.

The centre buildings of the Sublime Porte (those departments of the Turkish Government devoted to diplomatic relations) .were destroyed by fire. The Foreign and Grand Vizier's offices escaped.