CONDENSED CABLE NEWS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10222, 25 April 1911, Page 7

CONDENSED CABLE NEWS.

United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. In Jarva on Sunday there were 13 fresh plague cases, including one pneumonic. There were five deaths. A tank car exploded at St. Louis and killed three persons and injured nine, says a New York message. There are fifty cases of cholera daily among the troops and insurgents in Yemen. The Pacific and Papua Produce company has been registered in London, with a capital of £150,000. The prize money distributed at the Randwick Autumn meeting—£26,osl —is a record for Australia. It is estimated that the Portugal I Government will secure six millions sterling as a result pf the confiscation of church property. The Sydney Chamber of Manufacturers xhas made arrangements with the Federal Government for importing labourers under contract to satis.' - I the demands in many industries. Mr Justice Pring, at Sydney, commented strongly on the length of time prisoners are kept in gaol awaiting trial. He threatened that svms day he would discharge the lot. Mr Hughes, Acting-Premier of Australia, states that owing to the size of the grant asked for by the promoters of the Australian Antarctic expedition question will have to be submitted to Parliament. The new Canadian copyright law ' strikes a blow at the British authors and publishers, and destroys the uniformity of the law within the Empire, states a London message. 't insists on every work being registered before publication and every copy be- \ ing printed in« Canada. l