SATURDAY'S CABLE NEWS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10181, 6 March 1911, Page 6

SATURDAY'S CABLE NEWS.

[JBy Telegraph — Press Association.} The first garden city in Canada is to be established in the vicinity of Vancouver. Responsible officials declare that the precautions taken are such that there is little fear of a small-pox epidemic in London. ' Arising out of an agrarian dispute, John Hynes, a farmer s at East Clare, England, was shot. His injuries are . serious. I Advices have been received; that Dr j Rudolph Pinosa and forty-four men' have been convicted, and az-e to be shot for complicity in a conspiracy against the Government. The Johannesburg correspondent qi. the' Daily Chronicle states that if his visit to Europe' not improve his health, Genera 1 Loms # Botha Prime ' Minister of South Africa, will probably retire. The United States Senate talked out the Permanent Tariff Board Bill, though the measure was strongly supported by the Government. The Bill will again figure in the Congressional programme. .The Registrar-General has suggested that the London Board* of Education should arrange special lessons in the elementary schools in regard to tlie filling ,up of the census schedules. Mr Lee, Minister for Public Works in the N.S.W. Cabinet, in a strong | statement against the Referenda proi posals, declares that they would lead to anarchy, chaos, and civil war. It would be, quite impossible for a central body to cope with the work for the whole of Australia. * ■■>■.. At Flemington, Flavian did two miles in 3min. 56secs., Bolan a mile

in Imin. sosec, Obi, eleven furlongs in 2min. 40sec, Apple Pie. ten furlongs in 2min. 17sec, Prizefighter, twelve furlongs in 2min. 45sec, and Patronatus twelve furlongs in 2min. 42£ sec.

There is a: revolution in Paraguay. Five thousand rebels in the north captured two small towns. The Government of Argentina threatens reprisals for the seizure of three Argentine vessels by the Dictator, M. Jara.

The name of a Bengali youth who throw a bomb in Calcutta at a motor car containing Mr Cowley, a Public Works engineer, is Nutherji. He confesses that lie threw the bomb at the wrong car. It is believed that he intended to kill an officer of the Criminal Investigation Department. Mr Cowley escaped by cleverly catching the bomb.

Thirteen cases of cholera have been reported in Honolulu. There are indications that the disease is widely scattered. The authorities have closed the poi factories. (Poi is the native food of. the Sandwich Islanders. It is made by baking and pounding the kalo, or taro, root, and reducing it to a thin paste, which is allowed to ferment).