CONDENSED CABLE NEWS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10210, 12 April 1911, Page 7

CONDENSED CABLE NEWS.

United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.

The Regents Park Zoo has acquired a healthy sea elephant, which will be the only specimen of its kind in England.

Mr Cecil Harmsworth, Liberal M.P. for Droitwich, is presenting to tho nation Dr. Johnson's house in Gough Square.

The Royal Geographical Society has given Professor Mawson £SOO, this Being tho same amount as was given Captain Scott.

There have been n hundred thousand visitors 1 , to the Bakers' and Grocers' Exhibition at Glasgow, where South Australia is making an excellent show of produce.

The Hon. Victor Hood will be Lord Denman's (the new Governor-General of Australia) chamberlain, and Captain Viscount "Bury, of the Scots' Guards, will be his aide-de-camp.

A section of the populace at Canilla.s, Spain, proclaimed a Republic and attacked the civil guards, five persons being wounded. Reinforcements to the guards have been sent.

A fall of earth at the New Norma nby mine at Ba 11a rat buried two miners. One was recovered and found to be only-slightly injured: the other, "amed John Kelly, has not yet been found, and it is considered unlikely that he can still be alive.

Frederick Gray, a- blind piano tuner, v-'bi committed suicide at Bourung, in Victoria, left an incomplete letter addressed to his mother in New Zealand. stating that he was disappointed at being unable to obtain an invalid pension.

Cossacks have plundered and murdered nine German colonists at Alutskain, in the Northern Caucasus, whilst thirty armed Terrorists attacked the postal van at Turek, killing a gendarme and two policemen. The van was then dynamited, and 47.000 roubles (about £4-106) stolen.

Tests will shortly be made of the effects of covering ships bottoms with glass, pays a London me sage, the idea being to increase their speed and enable them to utilise some more economical fuel. The experiments win be conducted on one of the liners.

Captain Amundsen., in a letter to his committee, states that after landing his narty at the Antarctic the Fram will make Atlantic oceanographic observations. Captain Amundsen, on his return, will call at New Zealand, proceeding thence to San Francisco.

A fire is raging at Tokio. The high wind prevailing and a shortage of water make the situation critical. The Azukuza quarter has been completely destroyed, and several hundred people havo been burnt, some fatally. The European quarter is not in danger.

Kowoll, a burglar, who had shot four peoplo at a colliery in Silesia, Germany, took refuge with an accomplice in his uncle's house, which the police surrounded. Pistol shots were exchanged, several police being wounded. Tvownll was lulled, ten bullet 'rounds being found in his body, His was captured.