CONDENSED CABLE NEWS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10209, 10 April 1911, Page 7

CONDENSED CABLE NEWS.

United Press Association —Bv Electric Telegraph—Copyright.

An "All Empire) week," as a sequel to tho "All British Shopping Week," in projected in London.

Blairgour ('8.12) ha.s, according to a Sydney message, been scratched for the Don caster Handicap and St. Leg-

One hundred Kvupp guns have arrived at Constantinople from Germany. A large consignment is coming shortly.

The Sydney hospital has secured 2.3 parcels of radium, of the value of ■LM'2OO. This is the largest order tho hospital has ever placed.

"i'V.ulkner, the South African cricketer, after inspecting the Bamawin irrigation settlement, Victoria, expressed his intention of returning .to Victoria and settling at Bamawif.

Advice have been received from Bagdad to the effect that robbers raided tho British Consulate at KerPersian 'Kurdistan, and killed an employee.

Tho British Hoard oi' Trade returns show that for the month of March tho value of imports increased by £434, ~ 075. exports by .£('>,472,354, and of rcexnorts bv £730,678, as compared with March, 1910.

The Clyde engineers askecl for -Jd an hour increase in wages. They refused an offer of Jd an hour increase from July next, and have requested a conference with the Employers' Federation to discuss the matter.

The London newspaper Sportsman, while rcg.irding it as a possible mannerism, suggests the practice of George Grav, the Australian billiard player, to allow his cue to rest on the cloth after a stroke, and making a lateral moyement with the tip. raises the nap sufficiently to check the red ball on the desired spot.