LATEST CABLES.
A BRIZILIAN BATTLESHIP
(Received Last Night, 11.15 o'clock )
LONDON, April 10
The Brazilian battleship Rio de Janiero, which is being constructed at the Elswick yards, will be armed with 14in guns, and will have improved armour protection.
WILDING'S SUCCESSES
PARIS. April 10. In the Open Singles at Lyons, Wilding heat Poulin. o—o, 6—l, 6 —o.
LARGE FAMILIES
PARIS, April 10,
A league of fathers a.nd mothers of large families, intending to petition the Premier for a reduction in taxation in cases similar to theirs, met in Invalids' Square. The police stopped .a procession, but the Premier received a deputation.
SIXTY GOLDEN* WEDDINGS. PARIS, April 10. Sixty couples celebrated their golden wedding at Rheims yesterday.
ATTEMPT ON THE CZAR
PARIS, April 10. An unconfirmed report from St. Petersburg states that two men were arrested when carrying to the Winter Palace a coffin filled with dynamite.
TWO HUNDRED LIVES LOST. 1
BOMBAY. April 10. A thatched, festival building, with one exit, northward fronrPoona. was destroyed by fire. 'Two hundred persons were burned tn death.
PKINZESS IRENE FLOATED
BERLIN. April 10. The steamer Prinxess Irene, which went ashore on the American coast, has been re-floated.
MORE DREADNOUGHTS
VALPARAISO, April 10. I Messrs Vickers, Sons and Maxim, of j Barrow, rre the lowest tenderers for i two 26,000 ton Dreadnoughts. 1
TARTAR GENERAL MURDERED. HONGKONG, April 10. It is.reported that insurgents at Canton murdered a Tartar general. ■
THE FASTEST WARSHIP
LONDON, April 10. The cruiser Indefatigable developed a speed of 29 knots. She is the fastest warship afloat, with the exception of destroyers.
THE KING'S PORTRAIT.
| _ LONDON, April 10. Sir Luke Fikles lias been commanded to paint a Stat** portrait of tlio r Kint;.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10209, 11 April 1911, Page 5
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