SATURDAY'S CABLES.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10175, 27 February 1911, Page 7

SATURDAY'S CABLES.

United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copy right.

The New South Wales Government intends to establish a conservatorium of music.

The schooner Australia, which went ashore near Sydney, is a total wreck. She is canted seawards, and heavy seas are breaking over her.

During a gale at Bradford, a schoolgirl was caught by a whirlwind while in the playground, carried twenty feet into the air, and killed.

•It is reported that the Turkish steamer Hurrieet, which was carrying Moslem pilgrims, was burned at sea, and that all on board perished.

The slackness in the Newcastle coal trade was demonstrated last week, only 50,107 tons being exported. When trade is good the export averages 120,000 tons.

A train was derailed on a bridge and precipitated into a ravine near the Braddcn copper mines in the province of Q'Higgins. Chili. Fifty persons were killed or injured.

The Victorian Marine Court suspended for six months the certificate of the captain of the barque Speculant, which went ashore and became a wreck" at Cape Patten.

A commission of exoerts have decided the Brussels exhibition • fire was not due to spontaneous combustion or incendiarism, but probably to a smok-. er's carelessness.

William Smart, sentenced to death for the murder of Ethel Harris, has •written to Mary Pemberthy, his bigamous wife, expressing sorrow for what he has done. Otherwise he appears unconcerned. "

. The Standard protests against the inexplicable delay in appointing a successor to Sir Francis Hopwood, who, some weeks ago, retired from the position * of, Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies. ■•'.'•■ \

The cruisers Kent and Challenger will visit Valparaiso in April next, to compensate for the inability of Britain to send a representative to the Chilian celebrations in honour of the Centenary of Independence.

Three,of' the natives who attacked and 'murdered two Englishmen—Mr McHarvey, "'owner" u of : -the naphtha works at Grosny, near the Caspian Sea, and Mr Barnard, manager of the works—also a Russian workman, have been arrested,. One committed suicide.

The petition against the return of the Hon. Hacry Lawson (Unionist), for the Mile End scat has been abandoned. (At the election in December last, Mr Lawson defeated.Mr B. S. Strauss, the Liberal candidate, by 2178 votes to 2176.

The Morning Post announces that the trial of the 15in bore naval gun, also of the 3in Maxim fmng fehells fed into the magazine from a band, have taken place. The guns will, the paper states, prove invaluable to a battleship in resisting torpedoers.

\ Owing to the anti-vaccination views held by the Mile End guardians, the I people of the district, in which there i are several cases of smallpox, remain to a large extent unvaccinated. Medical men recall the fact that a similar, condition existed in Montreal in 1886, when 3000 persons died from smallpox.

At,a. meeting of the MelbourvV; Hotelkeepers' Association, one of the. members strongly condemned the ■covmter lunch. Undesirables, he said, mauled the food; opiunvsmokersj consumptives, even lepers, might handle it,; It made boys thieves; nightly he saw] them sneaking into hotels after counter lunches.

The New South: Wales minister for Public Works (Mr Griffith) has written to the Melbourne Harbour Trust thanking it for accepting the Fitzroy Dock's tender for a dredge, and stating that such a spirit:will destroy the miserable local animosities which have disfigured Australian public life.

jV The -President of the Board of Trad© (the Right Hon. Sydney Buxton) has promised to. consider the request of a deputation from the National Committee on th£ Training of British Seamen to grant aid to encourage shipowners to. carry indentured boys on their vessels;

The head nurse of the children of Lady Chelmsford, wife of the Governor of 'New South Wales, was accidentally shot in the back at the State Government House. A person was cleaning a rifle in ah adjoining room, when it exploded, the bullet passing, through the door. The woman was admitted to the'hospital.

The United States Inter-State Commission's refusal to permit an increase in railway freights has greatly excited the London Stock Market; All Amerir can railway companies' stocks have dropped several points. The Union Pacific Company's fell ten; points, _but later recovered considerably. British railway stocks have been similarly affected.