CONDENSED CABLE NEWS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10199, 29 March 1911, Page 3

CONDENSED CABLE NEWS.

United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.

Weston won the half-mile cycling championship of New South Wales in the time of lmin 31 l-ssec.

A beautiful Forteenth Century Church, St. Michael's, at Houiton. in Devonshire, has been destroyed by fire.

Fires broke out in the rc-iaining customs houses m Buenos Ayres, bnt have been suppressed. There is evidence of-incendiaries who seem very determined.

The Australian hockey Club's general entries for the autumn total 768, compared with 60S last year. Flavian remains in the acceptances for the Sydney Cup.

. The evidence of a number of expert witnesses, including an assayed, in the Chaffinch mine case at Perth, opposed the rumour of salting. They went to prove the .gold bearing stone and found it still existed in the trench, and that hornblende was amongst the minerals comprising the reef.

The superintendent of the Peninsula and Oriental lino has announced that probably the Company's mail boavs will discontinue calling at Hobart. The reason given was that the extended' service to New Zealand in the summer months makes the stoppage inconvenient. If the boats are withdrawn the Company will run a cargo service t,o, Tasmania.

" The Chief Justice, in V,ii> absence of the Governor, presided over a;'great gathering at the Sydney Town Hall in continuation of the Bible Tercentenary. Celebrations. The heads of the various Protestant denominations delivered stirring addresses on the Bible as a basis of faith, and its influence on home and national life and in the mission field.

Tho Chairman of tile Royal Commission taking evidence at Sydney on the question of higher education, stated tlmtj while in the Australian states the expenditure on education ranged from 7s 8d to 12s 10 per head, New Zealand spent 18s per head. The Daily Tele- ',> says that it is, highly creu JtQ W° $M$" New Zealand should devote, so ; myph more money to education in all its brai^™ of the Australian States. *' ■ . "

A youth named Stott has been'com-' mitted for trial for robbing, the JToptseray':, (Victoria) Rooking office. '■"■ They proceeds, £7, were spent on races, theatres and lollies. He was remanded on a charge of attempting to stick up the Elizabeth Street post office. (A cable a little while back stated that the Elizabeth Street branch office had been stuck up, and that the robber had escaped when he discovered that one of the assistants, whom he had not seen, was at the telephone box coir municating with the police.)