YESTERDAY'S CABLES.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10167, 17 February 1911, Page 6

YESTERDAY'S CABLES.

At the tallow sales, 1038 casks were offered, and 539 sold. Mutton : Fin?, 37s 6tl; medium, 35s 6d. Beef: Fine, 37s 6d, medium, 355.

The general Federation of the Trade Unions demands that State afforestation, canal construction and otimr works be proceeded with as remedies for unemployment. ,

Abnormal heat prevails throughout Cape Colony. The temperature is 115 in the shade. The- iie.it is killing ostriches, and several native chiklro.i have succumbed.

The timber strikers at Melbourne have resumed work under an agreement to submit their trouble to a nonlegislative Wages. Board.

The revenue already exceeds Mr Lloyd-George's estimate by £14.000.000. There are indications that several millions will swell the surplus.

General Navarro, with a thousand Mexican regulars, has entered Juarez. The refugees are returning to the city. The-insurgents acknowledge the failure of the campaign.

The blast fumancc men at the Lithgow iron works. Sydney, hare struck. They refuse to handle coal sent by free labourers from the Carcoar mines, where a strike is in progress.

The marriage rate in Yietoria last year was the highest for twenty years. The births numbered 31,437, which number is 112 below that oft lie previous year.

There is no further ' news, of flip party of officers and police, who a:re missing in Papua. That part of /the island where they are lost is uuexplored,' rough and pestilential, and infeste:! with treacherous savages. Those who know the country express the, opinio a that the men have been delayed Ly monsoon a 1 rains and floods and probably bv fever. .■