CONDENSED CABLE NEWS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10186, 11 March 1911, Page 7

CONDENSED CABLE NEWS.

United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph—Press Association.

A Bill, retaliating on the British patent law, has been introduced in tha llcichstag.

A rich discovery of diamonds is reported from Capetown. It is stated that a thousand carats were obtained in ten days.

In view of the recent, legislation. English bookmakers operating at Amsterdam are preparing to move to Switzerland.

There is no sign of the implement strike at Melbourne ending. Both sides are determined to fight out the issue of whether unionists and non-unionists shall work together.

The Marine Court found that the ■'.'reck of the. steamer New Guinea was caused by default of the master (Capt. Coleman) whose certificate has been suspended for six months.

The Bishop of Oporto has been dismissed on pension for ordering the priests of his Diocese to read a- pastoral letter which the Government had inhibited.

The whole of the potato crop in the Crookwell and Taralga districts, New South Wales, has been devastated by Irish blight. Tho loss in the Goulbourn district alone is estimated at £150,000.

The Imperial Government calj.es to Melbourne that it is not intended to proceed any further with the suggestion for a uniform postage stamp to bo used throughout the British Dominions.

Mr Lewis Harcourt m the House of Commons said that the South African Ministry had informed Viscount Gladstone that there had been no recrudescence of offences against white women since the commutation of the death sentence at Umtali.

Speaking at tho Cricket Association's reception, Sherwell (the South African captain) declared that if anybody was capable of taking a beating the South African's were. Ho added that thsy werj> feeling the strain of the tour.

According to the Sydney Morning Herald the feeling of the employees in the postal and telegraph services is so keen against the Postmaster-General's attitude towards their grievances that a solid vote of forty thousand is threatened against tho referenda proposals.

At North Melbourne labourer, named Smith, and his, wife, quarrelled. The wife left home, and returning shortly afterwards fonnd her husband standing over ft three-year-old child with a razor in his hand; The child's throat had ..been fatally cut. Smith was immediately arrested. He had been drinking heavily, and admitted that he had killed his child simply to spite his wife.