YESTERDAY'S CABLE NEWS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10183, 8 March 1911, Page 7

YESTERDAY'S CABLE NEWS.

[By Telegraph—l'ress Association.'}

The Renmark (Adelaide) fruit strikers stoned a couple of growers in the street.

Tlio Association football match, Wales v. Scotland, resulted in a draw, each side scoring two goals.

At a cinematograph fire at Bologoo ninety persons were incinerated and forty injured.

The entries for the Davis Cup Challenge closed at Sydney yesterday. Challenges are in from Britain, America, and South Africa.

An inquiry has been set afoot on the Isle of Wight respecting tlio allegation that an unknown suicide, who was buried at Enchureh, is really Francis Patrick Clements, the Earl of Leitrib's heir, who lias been missing since" 1907.

Twenty Unionist implement- makers At Melbourne havo accepted an invitation to return to work with Unionists. Most of the shops are now working with small staffs. It is considered that the crisis has been readied.

There was a disastrous cyclone in New Caledonia on February 23rd and 25th. The railways were washed away, telegraph lines blown down, and buildings unroofed. No loss of life resulted, and shipping? sheltered safely.

At the yearling sales, at Melbourne, a Wallace. —Morisca. filly brouaht 750 guineas, Malster —Pendant filly 575 guineas, a Positano—Gladstone filly 500 guineas. a ; Charlemagne Tl.—Fan Tan colt 830 guineas; a Wallace — Alexandra colt 410 guineas.

Longworth won the one mile swimmins; cliamnionshir> at Sydney from Wilks bv 40 yards in 24min 1. 2-ssecs—-a record, equal to the world's record. Wright, the other starter, retired.

The Now South Wales PostmasterGeneral states that the Government is prepared to allow every Federal servant the right to go to the Arbitration Court, if he desires to do so, but the Government does not want to fbrce them. If the "Referenda Bill" ■ is carried.: even State servants will have power to approach the Court.