LATEST CABLES.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10213, 15 April 1911, Page 5

LATEST CABLES.

\ (Received Last Night, 5.5 o'clock.) FLIGHT OF THE CHANNEL. PARIS, April 13. M. Prier covered 226 miles, via Dover, Grisnez and Boulogne, in 3 hrs. 56 mins. xxe crossed the ChanneU at an altitude of 3000 ft. MADE IN GERMANY. LONDON, April 13. Much indignation has been caused in .the Worsley district of Lancashire, owing to the local Coronation Committee buying from Germany 11,750 souvenir mugs at 3s 6d per dozen, .compared with, the English quotation of 5s lid per dozen. DISASTROUS RAINSTORM. BUENOS AIRES, April 13. Several portions of the city have been flooded as the result of a rainstorm. Numerous buildings collapsed, two persons beiirg killed and fifty injured.

AN EMPRESS' HOARD. PEKING, April 13. It. is persistently reported that gold to the value of £6,000,000, being part of the Dowager Empress' hoard, has been secretly shipped to England. A VALUABLE "TURNER." LONDON, April 13. Turner's picture, "Calls of a Packet Boat,' has been sold to an American for £40,000. ARREST OF SPIES. BERLIN, April 13. The arrest ox the Scbweidnitz spies was due to- Russia having informed .„th© authorities that they had offered plans. • REWARD FOR SERVICES. CONSTANTINOPLE, April 13. As a reward for services rendered in the revolution, Enver Bey has been permitted to many the Sultan's niece, a slaughter of Prince Sulieman. I ■ — "JACK"JOHNSON. NEW YORK, April. 13. 'Mack" Johnson, the champion pugilist, who was imprisoned for driving a motor at a furious pace, is to tbe released on Easter Monday. He has served ten days out of the twen-ty-five to which he was sentenced. I DAMAGE BY FROST. NEW YORK, April 13. Two-thirds of the Malama shipping grapes and -seedless raisins in the San Francisco district have been killed 'by frost. Much damage lias also been done in other districts.