CONDENSED CABLE NEWS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10224, 27 April 1911, Page 7

CONDENSED CABLE NEWS.

United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.

I Diamonds have been discovered in considerable quantity at 1< lindeis Island, says a Hobai't message. Pcarce states that he has secured the stake money and is prep aed to meet Arnst at an early date. Albanians east of Tuzi ambushed several Turkish detachments. Twelve were killed and many wounded. Bookmakers at the Scarsdale (Victoria) races struck because they believed the judge's decision was wrong on the first race.

A ferry boat conveying - fifteen workmen across the Elbe, near Koniggratz, Germany, capsized, and nine were drowned.

The steamer Asia, formerly the Doric, was wrecked southward of Shanghai. The mails and passengers were saved.

Negroes who were barred from the fashionable residential section of Vancouver by a land company have won a verdict.in the Courts.

The steamer Empire, from Sydney, struck a sandbank at Noji, Japan. The passengers are safe and the vessel is expected to float again.

The Democrats in the United States Senate are confident that they will carry the Farmers' Free List by the end of the week. The Republicans promise better opposition.

Germany is building submarines fitted with quick firing guns, firing 19pound shells, which will enable them when on the surface to engage torpedo boats and destroyers.

A fall from the roof followed an explosion in the Elkgarden (U.S.A.) mine, and twenty-three miners were buried. All hope of rescuing them has been abandoned. Several bodies have been found.

The Canadian Northern Railway court estimate that 45,000 American farmers will settle along the railway during 1911. The influx to the Dominion this year is estimated to exceed 200,000.

Replying to a question, Mr Harcourt stated that he was unaware of any improper recruiting of women in the New Hebrides during the past year; but he was asking the High commissioner there for a report.

Tho London .Lawn Tennis Association has invited South Africa s.ivi America to contest the preliminary round for the Davis Gup in England during tho Coronation weak, the v.'i-i ner of this round paying England 1 o decide \Vho shall go to Australia.

Engine and trucks left the line nuaL Burrenjuek- (New South Wales) and completely overturned. The driver was pinned under the tender in a pool of water for thre.9 hours, n i died later of frightful injuries. Tho only passenger escaped unhurt.

Mr Jplin Murray, the London publisher, referring to tho Canadian V/.>ryright Bill, said there was a ma .ufacturing clause in the Australian Act of 1905 which would i-resi.mably cc ine into force if the Brit : ?h T'iil l e.oroes law. If the other selr go'-a 'ii.ng i :uts of the Empire follow s-ujl. ;t '.voo.ld I'S disastrous to B.icish aiiH'i is.

The London Mo? Test d.-i ;luv Mf laft's arbii-*--*«» > j-r -i a"> designed to diaw tl.i* 'it'-cu!; • i f y. fron + he<'-'32 0 '<> t"> f » reciprocity scheme, ,v;d that alien Mr Taft is offering ad'■ ration he is also doing his utmost to disrupt the British Empire.

Carpenter, the proprietor of Charing Cross bank, is being charged \ut.h obtaining £SOOO two days before his bankruptcy by means of an alleged false prospectus. The prosecution stated that there were 18,966 credir tors. Accused has been remanded on a bail of £IO,OOO, which was forthcoming.