YESTERDAY'S CABLES.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10164, 14 February 1911, Page 3

YESTERDAY'S CABLES.

Thieves burgled Lord dive's villa at Pan, France, and stole £IOOO worth of jewels. Arrangements are 'being /'completed' to establish Greenwich time in France at a. given date within a fortnight. Mr J. A. Simon, Liberal member for Walthamstow, at Tronbridge, vaid the House of Lords was only reforming from without. This was possible only when their despotic powers were reduced to reasonable limits. Captain Foriseca, of the 10th Regiment of Infantry, stationed; at "Braganza, lias been cashiered for plotting against the Portuguese Government. King George and Queen Mary will- attend, the Imperial Concert at the opening of the Festival of Empire on May 12th. In view of the numerous attacks by hooligans on the police of Paris, the Prefecture of the, Seine recommends the police, on ■ and off duty, to defend their lives whenever necessary. Two large lioles have been dynamited into the ramparts at Toulon, adjacent to the powder magazine, which is undamaged. The Northumberland miners' ballot is largely in favour of •terminating the Conciliation.' Board agreement, with the view of abolishing the threeshift system, and securing a maximum wage. Six months' notice of the termination of the agreement is ■required. Owing to large cornerings in alcohol, M. Briand (French Premier) is legislating to prevent monopolies of food and drink. The police raided' a Southern Hungary Gipsy camp, and found twentythree kidnapped children artificially crippled for begging purposes. The artificial crippling included blinding, bent limbs and skin diseases. The whole band was "*ft¥resfed. i , Several of the gipsies had 'been previously convicted. The French flaw is promulgated protecting genuine champagne. In the football Association match, England scored two goals and Ireland one; Rugby game— Ireland a try, England nil. '■.-... The Kaiser has recovered from ,a three diays attack of influenza, accompanied by fever. A dredge foundered in the Mexican Gulf. Twenty-seven of the crew were drowned. A single survivor 'brought the news. Lerronx, Republican leader, was fired at five .times at Sabdell, but was uninjured. Three persons have been arrested. The Dutch Government has hinted at the possibility of specially marking (in the interests of; Dutch, trade) the so-called "Dutch cheese" sent to Britain. \