CONDENSED CABLE NEWS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10219, 21 April 1911, Page 7

CONDENSED CABLE NEWS.

United Press Association—By Electric Telegr a ph—Copyright.

The Fram has arrived at Buenos Ayres from the Antarctic.

The Worsley Committeo has cancelled a foreign'order for Cononation mugs, and has placed the contract in England.

A workman was killed at Hamburg through touching the wire of a broken electrical tidal signal, and two of his comrades were killed in trying to rescue him.'

The City and Suburban Handicap, of .2000 sovs, about one mile and a quarter, run at Epsom, resulted : Mushroom 1, Demosthenes 2, Bronzino 3.

The Governor advises that the Imperial Government of Russia will prohibit the holding of tlio International Congress of the Young Men's Christian Association..

The firing of art electric cable 'it Pinkton Colliery, England, lighted t' -< woodwork at the bottom of the shaft, from which dense smoke issued. Pour hundred miners were rescued, there being many thrilling escapes.

The first clause of the Veto Bill was carried after a fourteen hours' sitting. The Bxidget will bo brought down at the end of May. It is stated that Mr Lloyd-George's insurance measure will not become operative until April of 1912.

The London newspapers are commenting upon George Gray's eleventhhour refusal to play Diggle with bonzoline balls. Gray's father alleges that the refusal was due to a disagreement with himself and John Roberts regarding the interpretation of their agreement.

The Sydney Show has closed. The 'total attendance was 252,000, and the takings £10,842. Both show a decrease on last year, the result of a wet Easter Monday. At the Show, Mr Fairey> of Nelson, gained tho second prize for a fat cow, which was subsequently sold at ' the Show for £ll. His bullocks brought £ls each.

Of forty-two persons accused of taking part in a vast-conspiracy at Howrah to.overthrow the Indian Government, a special tribunal of the Hich Count has. acquitted- thirty-three. Six are ■ already in ' gaol on charges of dacoity, and one has since died. One became insane, and one other was released during' the trial.

The Democratic speakers in the U.S.A. Senate-debated the Reciprocity Bill, advocating free trade with Canada. One speaker said that he Relieved that the time is coming when the United States would have free trade with the entire world. The measure will reach the Senate on Thursday.

At a representative gathering at the Manufacturers' luncheon at Sydney, the speeches, including those of the Hon. Mr Trefle and the Jion. Mr Carmichael, advocated the encouragement of locally made goods, the cultivation of friendly relations between employers and employed, and the settlement of dismites by friendly conferences or by arbitration.