YESTERDAY'S CABLES.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10172, 23 February 1911, Page 7

YESTERDAY'S CABLES.

Wireless communication has been held between the Eiffel Tower, Paris, and Canada. Bonwick and Greenaway, charged in connection with the Chaffinch con- , spiracy, have been remanded to Perth. Over eight thousand men are working at the Broken Hill mines, and "there is room for many more. Admiral King Hall has arrived at Sydney. In an interview, he stated that lie heartily iapproved of the Australian naval policy, and had come out . to encourage it. The China and Japan express train was wrecked at Palisade Canyon in Nevada. Six cars fell over the embankment. The passengers had an extraordinary escape, only three being KrJOTed. : Opium .valued at £20,000 hag been seized at various cities in the United States since the Customs campaign, started. Detectives report that smuggling takes place chiefly via the Canadian and Mesicain frontiers. , Mr, Beeby, with emphasis, told a deputation at Sydney that the Government had no intention of giving Union secretaries a roving commission to enter factories and pry into their working. . . The large country centres in Australia are bitterly protesting against the proposal for the early closing of Post Offices. (A .cablegram stated recently that the Federal Postmaster f expected to save £IBO,OOO per annum by closing all post offices at 6 p.m.) , In response to a request tor. men/for bush-clearing in New. South Wales, the | Central Unemployed body of London / is arranging to send by the Pakeha, ' on April 13th, two hundred men off good phisique and character, with fur-1 ther small parties to follow. / The Hon. Mr Holman. explaining the attitude of the New South Wales Cabinet; in refusing . three petitions fjor the release of prisoners who had served a portion of .their sentences, after having had their death sentences - commuted, said that'if there was a desire to ; have the death penalty inflicted as-rarely as possible, the Ministers were under an; obligation ,ta see that the sentences of imprisonment were carried out; otherwise the'public would insist on the death sentence