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Messrs W. Archer Redmond, a son of the Irish leader, Hazelton, a member of the House of Commons, and J. T. Donovan, the delegates who are visiting Australasia, to appeal for subscriptions to the Irish Parliamentary Funds, sailed from London by tho steamer Rotorua.
The following are the estimates of wheat and flour afloat. For the United Kingdom, 3,950,000 quarters, for tho Continent, 2,650,000, and for Atlantic shipments 111,000; the total shipments for Europe are 1,295,000, including Argentine 313,000, Russian 425,000, Danubian 70,000, Indian 129,000, and Australasian' 170,000.
Ex-President Roosevelt opened a great storage dam at Arizona, named after himself, in connection with the Salt River irrigation project. It forms a reservoir, twenty-five miles long, capable of irrigating two hundred and fifty thousand acres. . It is expected to make the valley the most fertile in America.
Liman Sour, the Mexican Finance Minister is en route to the Mexican insurgents healing peace proposals. It is believed that he bears proposals for a general reform of the political conditions. He spent a fortnight in New York meeting financiers, and one of the probable results will be the issue of a new loan/
| •: Mr John Roberts, on behalf of George Gray, lias-challenged Stevenson to it "match of 18;000>upi -level, ■ : for £IOOO a-side; to, be played with- ivory balls some time in September. , The meeting between Gray and Stevenson is unlikely. A match between Gray and Inman is almost assured, crystallite balls to be used, for £250 a-side, the winner taking sixty per cent of the gate. Respecting the vote of £15,000 to cover special allowances to the metropolitan police during the strike in South Wales, Mr Churchill stated that it was not expected that the local authority would contribute towards the ordinary pay, but Glamorganshire had repudiated the chief constable's written promise to contribute to allowances. The Law Offices were considering whether the matter should be taken into Court. , The. chief medical officer of Manilla has arrived and gives a.vivid'description of the recent eruption in the island of Taal. The explosion was heard a distance of 250 miles, followed by a tidal wave, which swept six miles inland and exterminated the, inhabi- ; tents.. The only living/thing found was a monkey, and of all the bodies recovered about 1500 were completely naked. A seismic wave travelled :■ to the'town of Lemeng. The country around is subsiding to a depth of six feet. ' ' ■ The comments at Melbourne on the New Zealand drink bill state that it proves, consistently with experience of the' past, that improved prosperity led to greater indulgence. Perhaps the energy and enthusiasm concentrated upon obtaining votes against licenses ■might more profitably be directed less against the licensed traffic -. than against liquor itself. New Zealand's experience suggests, at all events, that the people of .the Dominion have not yet arrived at the solution of the drink question.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10193, 21 March 1911, Page 3
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482CONDENSED CABLE NEWS. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10193, 21 March 1911, Page 3
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