CONDENSED CABLE NEWS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10218, 20 April 1911, Page 3

CONDENSED CABLE NEWS.

United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copy right.

Two men at Clunes, Victoria, picked from among stones used to mend roads one containing thirty-six ounces of gold.

While a large crowd was following a harem-skirted lady at Bendigo, an old man was knocked down m the crush' and killed.

The wood-chopping contest at the Sydney Show, with fifteen inch blocks, was won by Murrell,, Queensland, in one minute nine seconds.

Manufacturers' week is in full swing in Sydney. There are fine shows of Australian made goods in many windows, and they are attracting a great deal of attention.

There are no indications of any more cases of small-pox on the Mooltan, which was quarantined at Melbourne. The passengers landed after being vaccinated.

An incendiary fire destroyed the Town Hall at Scharebeek, Belgium. Pictures by Gobelin and tapestries valued at £BO,OOO were consumed.

Brigands attacked a secluded villa in Tempie, Sardinia, Italy, and killed an aged noble. A woman, for refusing to reveal the hiding-place of supposed wealth, was afterwards tortured. ..The brigands killed a maid and sacked the villa.

The Republicans in the House of Representatives (U.S.A.) announced that they will vote agarnst tho Reciprocity Bill.. Their attitude is believed to be indicative of the sentiment of the Senate, where their is. a Republican majority.

Detective-Inspector Warze, of the French police, has been denounced as a secret leader of the Apaches and is accused of burglaries and coining. It is alleged that ho was associated with two murders. Warzo has disappeared and was last seen near Brussels.

At tho annual meeting of the Licensed Victuallers' Association in Sydney, the president declared that members did not now fear for their existence. Their opponents would never carry reduction and never carry NoLicense. The extremists killed thornselves by wanting the whole or nothing. Ho believed that their next poll would be the last one. He wanted to show their opponents that the public wanted hotels and wanted good liquor.