YESTERDAY'S CABLES.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10169, 20 February 1911, Page 7

YESTERDAY'S CABLES.

There are over 600 typhoid fever cases in Ottawa. The epidemic is spreading alarmingly.

An hotel was destroyed by fire at Cleveland, Ohio. Six women were rescued in an unconscious state. It is not known if any lives have been lost.

A thousand of the world's leading geologists will tour Canada in 1913, following the International Congress at Toronto.

The estate of the late Sir William Agnew, the well-known publisher, and one of the proprietors of Punch, has been proved at £1,353,592.

King George will unveil the Queen Victoria Memorial on 16th May. The Kaiser and Kaiseriu purpose being present.

His widow, through the Felton boquest, has presented four of John Swan's drawings to the Melbourne National Gallery.

The Broken Hill proprietary mine, after two years' stoppage, has restarted productive work underground, which will give employment to a large number of men.

Canadian Zionists intend to found a colony in Palestine as a memorial to King' Edward's interest in the Zionist movement, and in Jewish affairs generally.

Mr Frederic Villiers, the war correspondent, speaking before the Fort William Canadian Club, was open in his declarations of the imminent risk of Japanese control of British Columbia.

The engagements are announced of Earl Hardwicke to Miss Nevill, a New. Zealand heiress, and of Captain Gilbert Hamilton, heir 6f Lord Claud Hamilton, to Miss Enid Elgar, of Featherston, New Zealand.

Mr Williamson, emigration organiser for the Central Unemployed Body, has furnished an optimistic report on the opportunities awaiting emigrants to Australasia, where, there is a great demand for every form of labour.

The whole of the front page of the Daily Mail is occupied by an advertisement concerning New Zealand butter. It gives the addresses of 800 shops throughout Great Britain, that are making special displays of New Zealand butter.

A Blue Book reports regarding the Whitehaven Mine disaster that there is no cause for criminal proceedings, though there was some laxity, in regard to organisation, an absence of strict discipline, and breaches of the statutory regulations. The Amalgamated Joiners' and Carpenters' Society, by a majority of 10.000, resolved not to use bicycles during Avorking hours, fearing that unless the practice is checked, it will become incumbent on the men to provide bicycles in addition to the ordinary kit.

Leading brickmakers of Sydney declare the brickworks scheme of Mr Griffith, Minister for Works, fo establish three State brickworks at an initial cost of £50,000. is impracticable, and the proposed selling price of 30s per thousand impossible without loss. Dr. Morrison, The Times' correspondent, has started for Peking, via the plague districts of Manchuria. He states that the extreme gravity of the situation lies in the effect of the plague on the labour supply. Manchuria is as rich a country as Canada. It has made tremendous strides, agriculturally, in late years. Dr Wilholm-Ostwald, the well-known authority on chemistry, addressing a meeting at the Glasgow Royal Asylum, said important research work had been done by a German professor,

who bad discovered n substance which, when infected into the blood, cures mental disease, ard renders the patient immune from.further attacks.