YESTERDAY'S CABLES.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10174, 25 February 1911, Page 7

YESTERDAY'S CABLES.

United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. The-strikers at Cockle Creek, Victoria, will resume work.: The weather is line for the New South Wales-South African match today. All the Chinese inhabitants of a \ I village near Kharbin have died from plague. Their bodies were found un-. der the snow. The Eadical members of the House of Commons are promoting a petition for the abolition of chocolate and cocoa duties, amounting to £300,000. Natives attacked and murdered MacHarvey, the owner of the naphtha works at Cresny, together with Barnard, his manager. Both were Englishmen. A Bussian workman was also killed. ' * During the Neptune's gunnery trials in the Mediterranean, a remarkable broadside from five twelve-inch guns fell within a radius of 150 yards of the target' at a range of five miles. Experts declare that such a broadside \would x have;crippled any* battleship afloat. •

Mr Beeby offered the parties to the Lithgow dispute the services of a Judge, for a. friendly settlement. The men accepted, but the proprietors replied that they did not need his services, as they expect to soon have the blast furnaces working again under normal conditions.

The Executives of the New South Wales' Political Labour League has forwarded another letter to all the New South Wales Parliamentary representatives, including those of the Federal i House and the Senate, requesting their/attendance at a meeting to discuss the supporting of the .referenda proposals. The Ministers, decline to discuss the letter with the Press. ■ ' " .-.""'