CONDENSED CABLE NEWS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10220, 22 April 1911, Page 3

CONDENSED CABLE NEWS.

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Comedy King has been stratchcd in all remaining Ilandwick engagements.

There has been a great storm in the Black- Sea, states a message from SebastapooL

A water famine exists at Menzies, Western Australia. Water is selling at £1 per thousand gallons, after fifty miles cartage.

The law in Portugal disestablishing the Catholic religion ensures priests their present stipends. Churches and other property will be ceded by the clergy free of expense.

The corporation of Londonderry, composed of Unionists and Nationalists, has decided to send a deputation to Dublin to present the King with ap address of welcome.

King Emmanuel welcomed Prince Arthur of Connaught, the bearer of King George's congratulations to the King of Italy's jubilee. There was a frantic pro-British demonstration by twenty-five persons outside, the Quirinal.

The estate of Mr John Clark, grazier, of Boggabri, New South Wales, has been, sworn at over £197,000. Captain Clarke, private secretary to Lord Islington, is .one of the executors. The whole -estate is left to the widow and children.

The bye-election for Haddingtonshire, caused by the elevation of the Right Hon. R. B. Haldane to the House of Lords, resulted: —J. D. Hope, (Liberal) 3652; B. H. Blyth (Unionist) 3184.

Sir George Woodman, chairman of the Aliens Board, London, said that while Mr Churchill's Bill was an improvement, he considers that in. view of the poverty and misery in England, the aliens should not be admitted at all. He objected to "wretched aliens doing the work Englishmen ought to have."

The London Standard's Capetown correspondent says that the situation in the Union Parliament has suddenly. developed an acute crisis, owing to General Hertzog's systematised obstruction of the educational compromise. The correspondent further states that dissenfeion is rife in the Gvernment's party.

A number of employees of the blockport dyeworks, Victoria, were skylarking on top of the dye vats, when, two youths, O'Donnell and Sandwell, fell into a vat of steaming dye. They were rescued, but died in the hospital.