YESTERDAY'S CABLES.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10162, 11 February 1911, Page 7

YESTERDAY'S CABLES.

The chances of the Aotea being floated off are favourable.

The assassins of Sa id-Ed-Do wleh (the Persian Minister of Finance) •have been handed over to the Russian Legation.

A lady looking in a shop window in Edinburgh was assaulted and robbed of a pearl necklace worth £7OOO. Her assailant escaped.

The destroyer Maori, during her trials at Shoeburyness, attained a speed of thirty miles an hour. The waves caused by the swift passage of the destroyer, swept the mate of the barge overboard, and he was drowned.

The Liner Hero, from Dunkirk, arrived at Hull with one of her holds on fire. When the fire was extinguished, the bodies of three stowaways, apparently foreigners, were found. It is supposed their smoking was the cause of the fire.

The Lord Mayor of Sydney has acceded to a request to convene a public meeting to consider the defenceless position of Australia: At * the meeting, a. motion favouring compulsory military training will be discussed.

A man named Polley,'at East Footseray, Melbourne, fired a gun at a girl called Biddle, who refused his offer, of marriage. The shot missed, and Polley then blew out his brains. Since the girl's refusal he had several times threatened suicide.

The Northern Ontario police have captured a man who is violently insane;, and was dressed in skins, and lived in a cave. He sustained himself by capturing animals in snares. He has been identified as John Beck, who vanished from civilisation five years ago, and who has since- been seen occasionally by trappers.

The- United States plans a considerable extension of the wireless telegraphy system on the Pacific Coast. This will include the linking up of the Aleutian and Pribylov Islands (two groups of islands in the Behring Sea) and the radius of the telegraphy here will be chiefly used against seal poachers.

The Labour Conference, in Sydney, discussed a motion censuring Mr Neilsen, for expressing his intention to proceed with the sale of Crown Lands at , Marenbravas being a distinct, breach of. a vital plank of * the platform of the Labour Party.' Mr Neilsen was present and. explained that he was against the sale of Crown Lands. He wanted at the same time to develop policy. The motion was amended to one of regret that the Minister had departed from the leasehold principle.in even a small degree.