YESTERDAY'S CABLE NEWS

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10177, 1 March 1911, Page 3

YESTERDAY'S CABLE NEWS

At the special invitation of the King and Queen, the Kaiser's daughter will accompany her parents to England.

The impending construction of dams in the province of Jujuy will cost nine million dollars.

The steam trawler Senator struck a rock and foundered in the North Sea. There were ten fatalities.

One hundred tons of Chinese pigiron has been landed at' Brisbane. It is stated that this is replacing New South Wales iron owing to strikes.

A derelict barge has been, discovered at Astrakhan, heavily surrounded by ice and containing the bodies of thirty persons who had been frozen to death.

Through the upsetting of a lamp in a pavilion where twenty-nine workers were sleeping, fifteen of them were burned to death.

The South African proposal to discuss bilingualism for white children at the Imperial Education Conference lias been withdrawn, in deference to a request |rom London.

The Victorian referendum manifesto is still- missing. Ministers vigorously deny that it was lost. intentionally. (The document disappeared after being sent to a typist for transcription.)

Jas. Fodgkinson, head of a Salford firm, has sold for a million-sterling and royalty, the American rights of an invention for revolutionising the salt industry. He has also sold the Canadian rights. '

A resident cf Thursday Island, writing to friend in Sydney, expresses the opinion that Mr Smith's Papuan party has been attacked by natives.. There are over 30,000 cannibals in the district.

A clause in the Labour Party's Osborne Bill provides that a trades union acting alone or in conjunction with other unions, may apply its funds.to secure the return of and maintain members of Parliament or of other public bodies.

The Sydney Chamber or Commerce has forwarded a letter to the. post-master-General, condemning the early closing of the post offices as a retrograde step. The residents in rearly all the towns affected are complaiiing bitterly that the public is not 'considered. -.'.•■

Mr Griffiths,* New South Wales secretary for Public Works, has had a Wages Board appointed to consider the demands of the employed on the Moree-Nuiugiadi railway wcikfc — the Government I '} first big day-la'uour job. If tho men'persist in demanding a bigger wage with a strike as the alternative, he will drop the work and spend the money elsewhere.

The settlement of the agricultural implement dispute, at Melbourne, by a conference, is regarded as out of the question. The strikers regret that Mr Fisher's effort to bring the parties together is unsuccessful, but have decided that, in the event of the State Premier (Mr Murray) offering to mediate, his services will be declined. The Premier will be asked to naturalise the industry. Mr Fisher has contributed £lO to .-the strikers' funds. '■•-■