CONDENSED CABLE NEWS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10208, 8 April 1911, Page 7

CONDENSED CABLE NEWS.

United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.

McMillan, formerly Town Clerk of Freinantle. pleaded guilty to stealing four of the Council's debentures, valued at £2OOO. and was sentenced to three months' hard labour.

The British en;!.,.;.., ''Kent" and "Challenger" have arrived at Valparaiso in connection with tho Centenary celebrations of the proclamation of Chilian independence.

The Hon. Mr Fielding-stated in the Canadian House of Commons that the Government was considering whether to accept the new Anglo-Japanese commercial treaty, and its effect on a Canadian-Japanese commercial treaty later.

A sentence of three years hard lahour has been imposed upon Wilson, formerly accountant to the Fuller Naughton Company, Perth, found guilty of embezzling £2712 belonging to the firm. The money was lost in horse racing.

The Sydney manager of the Dutch Steamship Companv has received official confirmation of the existence of plague in Java, but it is stated-to be confined to tho Malang district, and there is none on the coast. The disease is not violent in character, and is confined to the natives. All precautions are being taken for the isolation of infected areas. Up to April 2nd thirteen cases had been reported, whereof seven were fatal.

At a joint meeting of the members of the League and Association Football Club in Sydney, to discuss the management of football, with a. view* to establishing the sport as a respectable game, it was resolved that two steps were immediately necessary to purify and maintain its prestige: one was the appointment of a single united governing body, and the other the recognition of legitimatizing the open payment of players.

The centenary of the death of Robert Raikes, the founder of Sunday Schools, i,s being celebrated in London and Gloucester. (Robert Raikes was born in Gloucester on September 14th. 1735. His father was printer and proprietor of the Gloucester journal, and he succeeded to the business,*keeping it till 1802. He was a great lover of children all his life, and his pity for their misery led him in 1780 to start a school where they might be taught to read and repeat the Catechism. Helped by his paper, the scheme grew and attracted attention, and he lived to see schools established in many parts of England. All children who attended his funeral were directed by his will to receive the sum of one shilling in cash, and a slice of plum cake.)