CONDENSED CABLE NEWS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10203, 3 April 1911, Page 7

CONDENSED CABLE NEWS.

An explosion occurred on the cruiser Yorck, 9350 tons, at Kiel. Three men were killed and four injured.

Two men named Moreing and Green were, ran down by a train at Guildford, Western Australia. Moreing was killed and Green fatally injured.

The Federal Government is finding a difficulty in securing a wireless expert in England. Meanwhile the extension of the wireless proposals remains in suspense.

Two men who were being arrested near Comilla, in the Bengal presidency, shot a constable dead, and then wounded Superintendent Furze, who was accompanying tho constable.

The English Rugby Union Committee has decided to invite overseas delegates to attend meetings of the Rules Sub-committee, and also general committee meetings, when the laws of the game are under discussion.

Mr Lloyd-George (Chancellor of the Exchequer), states that the net suit Ins amounts t0'£5,606,766. The Bud fe . t provides for tho payment to membei s of the House of Commons of £4OO a year.

At Charleville, in the Department of Ardennes, M. Sommer biplaned with eight passengers a distance of one hundred kilometres (62 miles, 175 yards), in one and a-half hours, and 65 kilometres (40 1-5 miles), in an hour.

Lord Robert Cecil, at a meeting of the Labour Co-partnership Association, said the relations between Capital and Labour in Great Britain constituted a serious social danger. The only possible remedy was co-partner-ship, which would be valuable from all points of view.

In an article just published, Count Reventlow, the well-known writer on naval matters, states that the year 1917 will see the end of the transition period of German-naval shipbuilding, and 1919 the beginning of the automatic building of two battleships and a cruiser yearly.

Robert Herbert Measures, formerly managing director of Measures Brothers, iron and steel merchants, whose business is being compulsorily liquidated, appeared- at the Police Court on a charge of falsifying the firm's balance .sheets He, was remanded on bail.

.With regard to;the barque Buteshire,, .nitrate-laden, from Pisagua (Chili) to London, which was seen drifting near Ushant, an island •./off the coast of France, it is reported that a steamer towed her for twenty-five hours, when she was abandoned, her decks being then awash.

' Tho trial of the English group of coal claims in connection with the Alaskan coal lands frauds, has opened. Counsel for the defence at the outset asked for a verdict of guilty, on the ground that the indictments did not charge the defendants with any crime.

The London wool market is firm, and prices unchanged. There has been animated competition. The following prices were realised for the clips mentioned— "Rangatira," top price, 10-J-d, average 9J; "Wetewaipa," top price lid, average 9|d; "Tomone," top price average 9|d; "Mountenu." top price 16£ d, average 15£ -

The Financial Secretary to the Treasury. Mr C. E. Hobhouse, has introduced in the House of Commons, a Bill amending the Colonial Governors Pensions Act. Tt provides for pensions not exceeding £I3OO a year for Colonial Governors who have completed ten years' service, find have attained the age of sixty years, or are in ill-health.

While rnzing a chimnev at the site of an hotel at Cochrane. Ontario, that had been destroved hv fire workmen found a speck of cold in the- mortar. Tt was subsequently discovered that it camo from a gravel pit. The news leaked out. s"id tin inhabitants of the town, headed fry the Mayor, stampeded to the gravel pit. where dozens of claims have been staked.

The Loetzchberg tunnel has been successfully pierced in Germany. (The tunnel was begun in August, 190f>. Itis claimed that it will eventually '.ho the shortest, and, in every probability, the quickest, of any routes that can be made through France or Switzerland between Boulogne or Calais and Brindisi in connection with the Simplon tunnel and the central artery of the Italian railway system, which it will join at Pineenza. The length of the tunnel is about nine miles).