CONDENSED CABLE NEWS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10199, 30 March 1911, Page 6

CONDENSED CABLE NEWS.

United Press Association —By Electric . Telegraph—Copyright. Owing to a mistake in. tho transmission the result of the Bootle election was wrongly given. Mr Bonar Law was elected with 9976 votes, against his opponent's 7782. The figuures were first given as 7776 and the correction was not notified to the Press i Association.

King Emmanuel, in a speech, delivered a panegyric on Italy as a free nation, and emphasised the liberty and independence of the Vatican in matters of religion. King Emmanuel received the most cordial congratulaj tions from the Emperors of Germany and Austria.

Tho Daily Mail lays stress on the fact that if France went to war ,<?he could place three hundred aeroplanes in the field, while Britain has only ten.

Three Russian agents are visiting a remarkable 'Aero exhibition now being held at Olympia. They contemplate spending £900,000 on three hundred aeroplanes for war purposes. They havo already purchased eight Bristol biplanes,; five Farmans, and forty Bieriots. ' ••: .■;. ,

The French; newspaper "'Le Matin 1 " states that the consuls of.Fez fear that 2000 tribesmen "are marching on the. city. Shop looting is rife. It.is reported ;that the consuls have ordered the European colony to evacuate Fez.

A committee has been -formed to coordinate the proposals for the entertainment of the oversea.' Parliamentarians at the Coronation festivities. Colonel Seeley is Chairman, and the committee includes the Duke of Devonshire, Lord Lucas, Sir Walter Hely Hutchinson, Sir Hairy Verney, Messrs Collins and McLaren, M.'sP., Mr T. C. MacNaiighton, of the Colonial Office, and Mr E. W. Wallingtoii, private secretary to the Queen. v

A girl who had Ven arrested for stealing at. Matlock, Derbyshire, jumped into the river. A policeman followed, and the girl gripped him, refusing to release her hold,.and both were drowned. A second policeman dived repeatedly into fifteen feet of water, but could not succeed in rescuing them. '

■Dr. Mawson, interviewed, severely criticised Amudsen's; action in concealing his plans, in oi'derto become a rival of Scott.; action would affect him in the estimation of scientists. Mawson's own plans had included the landing of a small" party where Scott had landed, but the main parties would be distributed over the coast to the westward.

/Sir Ernest Shackleton questions, if Captain Amundsen is following the dictates of Polar etiquette in wintering within Scott's sphere of influence. He also asks whether Scott is following the same dictates in landing at Mawson's base.