CONDENSED CABLE NEWS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10221, 24 April 1911, Page 7

CONDENSED CABLE NEWS.

United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.

A iiro did serious damage to goods landed at Dunkirk, France, from the Clan Farquliar and other steamers.

Forty gunners were arrested at Smolensk, Russia, owing to the disappearance of the artillery headquarters' box containing communications from the Tsar and other papers.

Major the Hon. Henry Guest, Liberal M.P. for East Dorset, who has to seek re-election consequent upon his appointment as a Junior Lord of the Treasury, will not he opposed.

The N.S.W. State Government is considering a scheme for equalising railway rates in the interests of country producers and granting rebates of from 5 to 10 per centum according to distance.

A Parseval airship, with ten passengers, started,from Amsterdam, butdropped en route, and became hung up in a tree near Hanover. After it got clear it was blown into a mars':, but nobody was injured.

The first batch of twelve boys brought out under the Dreadnought fund scheme, has arrived at Sydney. After remaining for a time on a Government farm to gain the requisite knowledge, they will be found situations with farmers.

After lengthy negotiations, an agreement, covering a period of four and a half years, has been signed between the Broken Hill zinc corporations, and a number of the leading mines and miners' asociations. This settles troubles that have existed for a considerable time.

The Nw Zealand Shipping Company's steamer Tongariro, due-at Teneriffe on the 17th inst., arrived to-day. The delay in her arrival was due to slight defects in her boilers. A fair amount of reinsurances had Been effected prior to the steamer's arrival, at 2to 7 per cent, closing at.6 per cent.

Apropos the statements made- in the press that, at the eleventh hour, G. Gray, the Australian billiard player, refused to play E. Diggle with boil* zoline balls, Gray's solicitor states that Gray neVer engaged to play Diggle, and that Gray repudiates any engagements purporting to be made on his behalf by John Roberts.

At the Sydney show sales the following lines were disposed of — Draught stallions—On account of Mr Cullen, of Cheviot. Springfield, 150 guineas ; Springfield's Pride, 37;} guineas. Sheep—On account of Mr Nixon, Canterbury, four Border Leicesters', three to. five guineas each.