YESTERDAYS CABLE NEWS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10184, 9 March 1911, Page 6

YESTERDAYS CABLE NEWS.

United Press Association—By Electee Telegraph—Copyright.

The son of the Moorish Minister of War has killed the leader of the "French mission at Fez, giving as his ground that he had illegally executed two natives.

Federal indictments has been issued against seven residents of Chicago, on a charge of conspiracy in connection with Alaskan land frauds. The amount involved is stated to be ten millions sterling.

Tho. Daily Mail, says it is now clear how Germany will retaliate to th.British shopping week "A 1 ready,' ; the newspaper continues, '.'with a 25 per cent tariff, Germany has done her utmost to exclude British goods."

One hero at the fire at Bologoye, in Russia, braved the flames fifteen times and secured the safety of thirty people before he himself perished. Among the victims of the fire were a prominent railway official and his five children, who all nerished.

The Daily Express' Brussels correspondent reports that the BelgiarMinister for the Colonies has agreed to Messrs Lever Bros, forming a company, with a capital of one million sterling, to plant palm oil trees and establish a factory to deal in oil products in the Congo.

Lord Chelmsford, the Governor of New South Wales, who is taking a trip to England, was present at a farewell banquet on Tuesday. In the course of his speech he amusingly denied a number of rumours which might possibly be circulated regarding th? object of his Home going.

• Owing to his insinuations that Ministers had profit-eel by concessions, the Grand Vizier, of Turkey, struck Ismail Kemal, leader of the moderate liberals. Later, Dervich Bey, one of the Unionist deputies, struck Ismail violently in the face. All parties subsequently became reconciled.

In the Madagascar concession case the jury found that the judicial separation between Mr and Mrs Home was merely a ruse intendedjto enable them to evade liability, and they gave a verdict for the plaintiff for the full amount claimed. Judgement,was reserved on legal points.

The British Standard Produce Com r pany, which has regularly supplied the military authorities of Italy with Australian beef for the past three months, finds that it is now necessary' to substitute South American beef of AprilMay shipment, owing to the impossibility of obtaining freights from Australia to Naples. J '}' *\

An anarchist named Phillipsoha, who was reprieved after being sentenced to deathior a murder at Buchsal, in Germany, ran amok in a prison at Baden. He secreted a pair of tailor's scissors and suddenly attacked a warder and pierced him to the heart. He madly resisted arrest and fatally wounded another warder before being overpowered.and placed in chains.

The Dublin Courts are. investigating thecase of Corcoran, who, while living in squollor and mentally incapable, inherited "a quarter of a million from an American relative. An Amercian : attorney, in the first place, misrepresented the value of the inheritance while an Irish solicitor, in the second place, netted £30,000. Corcoran was receiving £I2OO a year as his net income.

The Right Hon. Mr McKenna, the First Lord of the Admiralty, replying to Mr.Robert Harcouri, Liberal member for Montrose Burghs, said , tha"t Germany in the spring of 1913 would have seventeea Dreadnoughts delivered ; and assuming that the ships for 1911 were twelve according to the programme of ships to bo delivered i>> three years after their authorisation, she would'have 21 .Dreadnoughts delivered by the spring of 1914. The Sydney Morning Herald states that the last Australian victory over tho South African cricketers in the last test match puts at rest all doubts as to the superiority of local cricket champions,, but the South Africans had maintained their reputation, and had put up a good fight.' The results of the present series of matches left the Australians the acknowledged premiers in the world's arena of the great English game. -