CONDENSED CABLE NEWS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10207, 7 April 1911, Page 3

CONDENSED CABLE NEWS.

United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.

The next international hakioii race starts from Kansas City 0:1 October <)th next.

The Selangor Bubber Company has declared a dividend for the year of 375 per cent.

Mr Hunt. the Commonwealth Meteorologist, has compiled a table covering Sydney rainfall returns for a period of seventy years. He claims that it proves the theory of weather cycles altogether, but questions it as a basis for forecasting weather.

Mr McCall, the Agent-General in London for Tasmania, has asked the Colonial Institute to establish an Australian section which he proposes should meet monthly, with a view to inviting any Australians who may have just arrived in England to discuss Australian tropics wherein they might be specially versed. It is suggested that such a scheme would bring Australians in London into touch with current events happening in Australia.

The Neueste Nachrichten states that on the completion of tho Panama Canal, the transference of the Chief Naval power of the United States to the Pacific Ocean and the enlargement of the Japanese fleet will force England to station a larger part of her Navy in Australian waters. This would weaken her North Sea fleet, thus permitting the possibility of Germany disposing of England's superiority in Home waters. For these reasons Germany must speed up her construction.

One of the bullets fired by the Menzies gold robber, says a Perth message, cut a button off a constable's' coat; another cut the cloth of the shoulder.. The constable, who was unarmed, returned to the police.station, and came back later with a companion, and discovered that the robber had returned and secured an abandoned bicycle, and a bag containing slimes. Failing to obey the constables' orders to stand, the latter fired three shots at the fugitive, who again abandoned the bicycle and slimes, and escaped.

A meeting of colliery proprietors at Sydney yesterday further discussed the question of dissolving the cold vend. It is said that considerable tension exists in the matter, the opponents of the step contending that dissolution means the introduction of the cut throat policy, which would seriously affect the coal trade. A statement was made that if the vend were dissolved coal would be sold at Newcastle at seven shillings a ton. The decision of the meeting, if any was arrived at, is undisclosed.