YESTERDAY'S CABLES.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10171, 22 February 1911, Page 3

YESTERDAY'S CABLES.

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It has been estimated that the production of. , beet-root sugar in Great Britain has increased by 792,000 tons; but:the output for the present season is unchanged. Mr Jackson, a Sydney resident,' who has returned from Mexico, states that the rebellion was -principally due to ah anti-foreign' sentiment, mainly directed against Americans. - A dry dock which was in course of construction at Antwerp caved in. Two hundred workmen had a narrow escape and the contractors, have lost £20,000. The work has been delayed a year. .- ■ '/.'.•. -.,.-'.■■ An extraordinary wind storm has been experienced in Vienna. Eightynine cases of broken limbs have been reported. People were blown over in the streets, and many vehicles were upset. . "A woman was sentenced to ment for a day at Silica, being unable tb pay one shilling fine for riot sending her children to school. The straw in the woman's':'cell caught fire, and her cries not being-heard, she was burned to death: Nine-- children were left orphans:'.; ..;/.-,-'' ■-''■ •" ../' The High CJo'urt at Melbourne: has Confmencecl a case iii wJiich.'Soilth Australia claims tthat the boundary of Victoria should be two and a quarter' miles fronii the point where it is now shown. South Australia also claims profits accruing, on this territory since the year 1850. ■'.: , ' ; M The growth" of the practice: of methylated spirit drinking in Sydney, is shown by the fact that nine men were fined yesterday for this kind of intoxication. They said v -that the habit had been contracted since the enforcement of the Sunday closing of the hotels., '.•'■'-,'. '