CONDENSED CABLE NEWS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10225, 29 April 1911, Page 7

CONDENSED CABLE NEWS.

United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.

Voting on the proposal to increase tho Assomblyite's salaries, simultaneously with the Federal referenda, resulted :—For the increase, 35,915 ; against the increase, 67,040. The police of London attach no importance to the arrest in Galicia of three Jewish Anarchists, who disappeared from London on the day of the Houndsditch murders. The arrests were made in connection with burglaries/

£SOO reward has been offered for the discovery of the perpetrators of an outrage, certain of whom exploded nitro-glycerine in a non-union building at Ottawa.

Tlte battleship Princess Royal has been armed with 13.5 in guns, which are nine tons heavier and seven inches longer than the Invincible's twelveinch guns. The muzzle energy will be increased to sixty thousand foottons, which it is considered compensates for any improvement in foreign armour.

Price and Coats have beeif sentenced at Brisbane to twelve months' imprisonment for robbery under arms.

During a qurrel at Brisbane, a labourer threw carbolic acid over his mate, who was fatally burnt.

Lindrum, the New South Wales billiard champion, practising Gray's stroke at Sydney, and playing Williams during the week, made two red ball breaks of over 500.

The Sydney wharf labourers have declined to accept the agreement with the Steamship Owners' Federation, which was. prepared by the Executive of the waterside workers. It is stated that the agreement contained the best set of working conditions eye*r offered, but the clause agreeing to handle all descriptions of merchandise was very strongly objected to. Members voted against it, bebig desirous of pick-and-choose work. Mr Hughes, who is the General Secretary, is much disappointed, and threatens to resign his position.

It has teen rumoured that, owing to personal differences of opinion, changes were contemplated in the New South Wales State Cabinet. Mr Holman states that there is no foundation for the statement, differences having ceased.

•The initial tests of Vickers' naval airship at London were satisfactory. Twenty compartments were filled with hydrogen to prevent a single shot deflating the envelope. The airship carries twenty passengers.

America has declined to play in the preliminary round for the Davis Cup in England owing to inability to secure a team to go both to England and New Zealand.

At Queen's Club covered courts tennis champiqnship meeting, Ritchie defeated Wilding by 6—3, 6—B, 6—l, I—6, 6—4.

Brangwyn's design for a New Zealand arch at the Coronation has been approved. It includes massive piers of the Renaissance style, surmounted with a message of greetings and will be illuminated at night. It will have blue with SoutherV Cross designs.' Captain Cook's vessel and New Zealand's Preadnought will bo represented.

Mr Hamilton-Wickes complains of the apathy of British manufacturers. Ho states that during a recent provincial tour, out of 138 firms with representatives in Australia, only eleven made app3intments to dis'Ji'ss business, matters.

Tr&'. Australian Jockey Club has decided its prize money next year by £6560.