CONDENSED CABLE NEWS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10223, 26 April 1911, Page 6

CONDENSED CABLE NEWS.

United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. CHARGE OF CRUELTY. (Received April 25, 9.20 a.m.) LONDON, April 24.. Mrs Wilesmith, a prominent Christian Scientist and Salvation Army worker, her son and a bailiff are being charged with terribly ill-treating a servaut girl, aged thirteen. The latter alleges that they mercilessly beat her, and afterwards salted her wounds. She has thirty-four permanent scars, many four inches long. The girl came from an orphanage when seven years old, and was made a household drudge. The prisoners have been committed for trial.

THE RELIEF OF FEZ

(Received April 25, ') 20 a.m.)

PARIS, April 24

The Government has hastily despatched a flying column towards Fez. It is composed entirely of French and Algerion troops from the Shawia country, and will be followed by Moroccans from the 11 Shawia tribe with French officers and French artillery. Another force of ten thousand infantry and two thousand cavalry is concentrated at Casablanca to protect the lines of communication.

A sixteen-year-old girl has committed suicide at Sydney, because her sweetheart was lost on the Yongala.

A local option poll will be taken in Westralia simultaneously with the ijeferiendum question, and rwill include a vote on whether the people favour State management of the liquor traffic.

The Indralema, going to Liverpool, collided with the steamer Trooper off Dungeness, says a London cable. While the Trooper was sinking, the crew climbed the ropes to the Indralema's decks, and were saved.

The Hon. Mr Neilson, Minister of Lands in N.S.W., stated that the State has four million or five million acres of land in the western division to open up for closer settlement as soon as a railway can be built.

Koskaltoff, chief of tne secret police at Archangel, anonymously blackmailed Kostoghoff, a millionaire, for £SO, threatening that a Nihilist group would throw vitriol on Koslitogohotf's daughter. Kostogohoff deposited the money as demanded, but arranged an ambush. Koskaltoff was arrested, but succeeded in bluffing his captors, and then committed suicide before the official investigation.

The Sydney Morning Herald states that most of the timber eomparieb are combining to raise the pries of timber by from ten to twenty per cent early in May. The paper adds that the business will be proportioned by the combine to each firm and heavy penalties are provided for exceeding the allotted business.

Lord. Chelmsford, who left Sydney yeistfsrday On a. visit to England, at a Government dinner, declared that public life in Australia imposes physical wear and tear whipli is a menace to good government. In England, ministers w. re not in charge of. public departments," and had • o* to giv* the same attention to details as did the colon*it ""ini-ler- i-hue INV.) there had been eleven English prime ministers. These were still living, and the others had passed the allotted span. Four, indeed, had passed eighty years. Here ministers were continually breaking down.