YESTERDAY'S CABLES.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10170, 21 February 1911, Page 7

YESTERDAY'S CABLES.

Uritocl Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. Mr Carnegie lias offered Denmark one hundred thousand dollars to establish a Hero Fund. The Russian Government is asking for £12,025,000 for the construction of four battleships before IS>ls. Ten Chinese stowaways were discovered on the steamer Prince Waldemar at Brisbane, from Kobe. The birthrate in England and Wales for 1910 is 24.8; the death-rate 13.4. Both these figures are records. Hammond, in a fine flight of thirtyone minutes in his Bristol hi-plaue at Melbourne, reached an altitude of 3000 feet.. A matinee at Sydney realised £425 : towards providing funds'for the relatives of the Coogee. surfing disaster victims. A fire in Armour Company's stockyards at Chicago destroyed tho lard re-j '•.finery. The loss is heavy. Huge quan--1 tities. of- grease threaten a great conflagration. A snow storm is raging in the Transcaiicasians. Many houses have-collap-sed at Psyrtcha, sixteen persons being killed. Many men have been snowed, tip on the roads. A secretary named Kerner, a maniac, shot two officials at Buea Came- / roons. He also wounded two other secretaries, and then committed suiside. The French Government has transferred the director and assistant-direc-tors of the Western railway elsewhere. Clavescille, a road surveyor and other ptiblic works officials replace them. ' , M. Nouffard, a French resident of New Hebrides, has, been appointed Lieut.-Governor of Senegal, the most important of the French West African possessions, north of the British colony of Gambia. , The director of the Tin i ted States census returns, announces that the census of twenty-three cities are inacurately given. Conspiracies are genoral to make the populations of cities appear the largest possible. Prosecutions against enumerators are pending.