YESTERDAY'S CABLE NEWS

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10178, 2 March 1911, Page 7

YESTERDAY'S CABLE NEWS

[By Telegraph — Press Association.]

■ The Broken Hill Unionists suggest a boycott of the hairdressers on .account of their raising the price of shaving from threepence to fourpence and the price of a hainhit from sixpence to one shilling.

The Sydney City Council voted equally on a motion to send the Lord Mayor to the Coronation. The Mayor, with his casting vote, negatived the proposal.

The Hon. Mr Hughes, (Federal-At-torney General) denies that the object of the pending prosecutions is to smash the Coal Vend. He is simply enforcing the law as he finds it.

The London Telegraph's New York correspondent says that the Commonwealth's determination to discourage the American Meat Trust is viewed with envious admiration by the Americans, who are powerless in the Trust's hands.

Admiral Fremantle, speaking at a Navy League dinner said that Britain should emulate the example of Australia and New Zealand,, and secure British seamen for British ships, even at the cost of- fewer ships and some restraint on trade.

Lord Lamington is introducing a Bill in the House of Lords enabling publichouses to be made social resorts instead of drinking dens, by means of games and music. The Bill also provides for chairs replacing the present bars.

A Halifax jury has declared that a South Western railway accident was due to a rotten tie in the permanent way. It censured the company for attaching passenger cars to logging trains and freights.

Kurt Hussen has been sentenced to six months' imprisonment, John Schroeder to four months, and John Wigglesworih Ward to a month at; the Newcastle assizes for attempting to bribe, the agent of the Thermal syndicate at Wallsend to disclose their method of manufacturing silica and other information in the interests of German companies.

Mrs Drummond, a.wealthy Americauj, mjssed jewellery valued at £20,000 from her state room on the steamer Amerika, from "European ports. Each member of the- crew was questioned in vain. The police have been warned of the loss of the jewellery, •and a search is being instituted in Europe. ; A, reward of £IOOO is being offered for the return of the jewellery.

- The Die Zet, Vienna, publishes an extraordinary stoi-y of a wedding party o'f 124 which, while sledging from Obstipoff to Taskend. was attacked by scores of wolves. The animals surrounded the party and eventually the wolves killed all but two. The last two victims were the bride and bridegroom, who were thrown to the wolves by the two survivors.

A sensational investigation of charges of corruption, involving high officials, is proceeding at St. Petersburg. The house of one Smith, a former manager of the Westinghouse Company, was searched and a document seized, Colonel Poliakoff, an administrator of commissariat at' Moscow, has been sentenced to five years imprisonment for. demanding and receiving brides from contractors. ' ■ •■