YESTERDAY'S CABLES.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10173, 24 February 1911, Page 7

YESTERDAY'S CABLES.

The total number of cadets enrolled in the Commonwealth is 127,272. This is about 50,000 short of the estimate.

The schooner Australia is ashore on the south-west rocks, near Sydney, and is full of water. All hands are safe.

A movement is growing in Alaska, in-favour of the. annexation of that territory by Canada. The residents complain of excessive taxation.

There has been an epidemic of measles in Sheffield, There are eight thousand cases reported, and three hundred deaths in three months.

The prosecution of the woman Milstein in connection with the Houndsditch affray has been abandoned, and she has been discharged from custody.

At Chakravarty, an Irish constable, connected with an enquiry into a political crime, was shot dead in a dark lane. ,The murderer escaped.

The litigation between Victoria and South Australia, in connection with the boundary dispute, is costing £BOO daily, and it«will probably, last six weeks.

Count Reventlow, the well-known naval writer, in an'article in the Jagd Zeitung, declares that Britain should draw the conclusion from the speeches of Admiral von Tirpitz, that the persistent piling up of armaments must inevitably mean that Germany will make similar increases.

The Lorp Mayor of Liverpool entertained Sir George Reid, and referred to the desirableness of closer relationshin with Australia. Sir George Reid said that Australia would certainly' welcome such relationship, as long as her independent rights of self-go-vernment were preserved.

The Court of Appeal. London, has over-ruled Mr justice Darling's decision that each party in the Simmon ds v. Liberal Opinion libel case, shall pav their own costs, and has ordered Mr Dunn, defendant's solicitor, to play plaintiff's costs, less, £l5O. The Daily Chronicle's appeal against the decision in the case where P. C. Slmmonds was awarded £SOOO damages for libel, has been settled privately on terms not yet divulged.

The New South Wales referendum 'campaign is developing'into a keen straggly. . Both sides are, organising and speakers are touring the country. The; Executive of the Political Labour League have forwarded to each labour member-', a letter described as a in which they ask what fixtures they have made to sneak on the subject, and also what j dates they can place at the disposal of |.J-he committee.

The births in' New fSouth Wales last year t0ta11ed,45,533—a record number —and the rate per thousand. was 27.32. Deaths numbered 16,191, or a rate per thousand of 10.44—the highest for three years. The phthisis dearth rate is the lowest on'record, and that due to cancer slightly above the average. There were some 14,294 marriages—a record. It is estimated that the population of the State of .NewSouth Wales is 1,690,316. ■• The increase for the year is 44,81T2.