GENERAL CABLES

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10251, 30 May 1911, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES

CONFIDENCE TRICK. AN AUSTRALIAN VICTIMISED. (Received May 29, 9 a.m.) LONDON. May 28. At the New Bailey, a man named Thorneycroft, a tailor} was sentenced to four month's' improsoiiment, and Barry, an engineer, to two months' imprisonment, for defrauding Eric Ebery, a Victorian Stockman, by means of a cdnhdence trick. The men met Ebery on board the steamer Orontes. SEIZURE OF OPIUM. (Received Last Night, 8.55 o'clock;) SYDNEY, May 29. A seizure of opium valued at £325 was made amongst the cargo of the China steamer Empire after it was Ijunded. BITTERLY COLD WEATHER. (Received Last Night, 8.55 o'clock.) SYDNEY, May 29. The weather in New South Wales • is bitterly cold. Sinow has fallen on the high lands. TOO MANY RACES. TOTE v. BOOKMAKER IN'INDIA.. (Received May 29, 10 a.m.) CALCUTTA, May 28. The Governor of Bomibay has notified the Turf Oub that owing to the increase' of betting on. races he will aiot allow the Poona. and Bombay meetings unless the racing days are limited to ten, bookmakers abolished, ,and the totalisator substituted. LAWN TENNIS. WILDING DEFEATED BY DIXON. • (Rieceived May 29, 9 a.m.) LOkDON, May 28.'. At lawn tennis, in the final of the ,Surre ydiampionsHp, C. P. Dixon, /brilliantly defeated A. F. Wilding, 7_5, 3_6, 6—o, 6—l.