CONDENSED CABLE NEWS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10197, 27 March 1911, Page 6

CONDENSED CABLE NEWS.

United Press Association—By Electric

Telegraph—Copyright.

At tho London wool sales there was strong competition for all sorts, at full rates.

The Cunard Steamship Company's report shows profits for the year totaling £994,149. A dividend of 5 per cent' has been declared.

At Milwaukee, six firemen were killed, two are dying, and others were injured through the caving-in of a roof during the progress of a big fire.

Arrangements are being made for the display at the Festival of Empire of the apparatus to be used by Dr. Mawson's Antarctic Expedition.

Owing to the shortage of cast iron, tho Russian Minister of Commerce proposes that ten million poods be allowed to be imported at a reduced rate before January, 1913.

Protestants in Montreal are indignant over the annulment of the marriage of two French Canadians because the ceremony had not been performed by a Catholic priest. /

A fire occurred at * cinematograph theatre at Lille, France, after a performance. A family of five living on the premises perished.

The Emperor Franz Josef welcomed the Kaiser and Kaiserin to Vienna. There were enthusiastic crowds in the streets.

At Montreal an Italian was murdered, the body being terribly mutilated with an axe. There is no clue to the murderer of murderers, Foreigners ,;ve to be disarmed.

'At Coffeyville, Kansas, six masked men held up the train on the St. Louis-Iron Mountain and Southern Railway. They blew open a safe,and got four thousand pounds. Then they escaped in automobiles.

Frank .Gotch, the heavy-weight wrestler, at Pueblo, Colorado, defeated Dimitri. the Greek wrestler, in two straight falls. Gotch is ready to meet Hackenschmidt.

The newspaper Sporting Lifei states that Gray proposes to offer Stevenson 10,000 points in a match of 30.000 up for £250 a-side. He will make similar offers to Inman and Harverson.

In the British House of Commons, Mr Sydney Buxton (President of the Board of Trade), replying to questions, said that in 1910 the value of British exports to Germany was £37,031,000, arid to Australasia, £36,321,000■ • '■■.•'

The Englishman, arrested with some others on charges of espionage at Hamburg, has been identified as Max' Schultz, a prominent Southampton ship-broker. As such, he was in contestant communication with his firm on purely business matters until arrested.

The population of the Commonwealth at the end of last. year was 4,482,869, an increase', for the year of 108,758. The number >.of males exceeded, the females >y 518,202. .-Tasmania's'male population was two less in the previous year, while the females increased by 337.,.

The steamer Wyneric, belonging to the s.s. Wyneric Company, from Ranr goon to Chili, put into Newcastle with her coal-bunkers afire. The fire started ten days before. It was subdued on the vessel's arrival here. Apparently little damage has been done.