CONDENSED CABLE NEWS

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10202, 1 April 1911, Page 6

CONDENSED CABLE NEWS

United Press Association—By Electric • Telegraph—Copyright.

In the debate on the at Berlin, the Imperial Chancellor, Dr. Berthmann von. Holhveg, said that universal Arbitration was as impracticable as universal disarmament.

i The Hon. A. Lyttelton, presiding over the Bank of Australasia's annual meeting,, said that the cosr to Australia* and New Zealand of providing for the fleet would inevitably be serlious,. but the directors of the Bank would be the first to cheerfully shoulder their share of the burden.

. Mr.lling'w'orth, M.P., for Shipley (and who is one of the Government whips) hasoeen mulcted in £SO damages in connection with the alteration of a Unionist poster at Shipley, depicting poverty and misery, the title of "Freetrade" having been altered to "Tariff Refctm."

The Foreign Office at.Berlin has informed a Reichstak Committee that Get many Avas disposed to ratify the Declaration of London, but would not assent to America's proposal to. invest international Prize Courts with the functions of a general land permanent Court of Arbitration.

A representative of a hemp cotton, company in Berlin in visiting central Queensland to settle one thousand cotton growers. The Government has offered the company a block of land covering forty square miles, near Capelh. The company is prepared to spend £150,000 on the enterprise, and is willing to buy all the cotton produced.

London Newspapers favourably criticise Haddon Chambers' comedy, "The Passer By," which has been produced at WyndhamV Theatre. (Charles Haddon Chambers is an Australian, bom in Sydney in 1860, and for many, years was a well-known journalist, story-writer, and subsequent dramatic author.)

. The Superintendent of Cockatoo Island estimates the cost of turning out the new warships at over half a million sterling. They would require three thousand men to build them, and they were not obtainable in Australia. They would have to get over a thousand shipwrights from England. Mr Holman, Acting-Premier, stated that the Government dock would probably be able to complete a warship in two years. A percentage charge would be made upon the total cost, representing seven or eight per cent. upon the cost of material and labour. The dock has nearly completed the work of : putting together the destroyer .Warrego, which is to be launched next Tuesday. .

ON PIFFLING. The comparatively recent introduction into common language of the verb "to piffle" : is a useful acquisition. It is so self-expressive of an indefinite attitude of the mind. ' A person who piffles is one who whips the wind. He goes to a lot of trouble to accomplish nothing. A case in point is a. person who suffers from inertia of the kidneys or liver or from a disorder caused by such inertia, say :--Rheumatism, gout, neuralgia, lumbago, backache, sciatica, blood disorders, anaemia, indigestion, hiliduSness, jauniice, sick-headache, .general debility, gravel, stone or bladder troubles, and .ries first o:>e remedy and then another without obtaining relief, instead of at mc-e seskhig the aid of Warner's Sat© Cur 1 * Al the back of his brain, he probably knows, from the many accounts .)f his friends, that Warner's Safe Cure is the proper remedy for his trouble, but, somehow on another, he piffles. Don't piffle ! If you suffer from any of the disorders named, try the effect at" Warner's Safe Cure immediately. If the medicine does not relieve, then go 'straight to the best doctor you can afIf.wd and follow his direction exactly. vVarner's Safe Cure is sold by ah chemists *nd Storekepers, both in the original form and in the cheaper "Concentrated/' nonalcoholic form. I