VARIOUS CABLES.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10252, 31 May 1911, Page 6

VARIOUS CABLES.

United Press Association—By Electric

Telegraph—Copyright,

SOUTH WALES MINERS.

ASKING FOR XATIOXAL

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(Received -May 30, 11.30 a.m.)

LONDON, May 29

Tlie South Wales .miners' delegates have resolved to ask the National Conference of the -Miners' Federation of Croat Britain to declare a national stoppage on the minimum wage question, or to allow a general stoppage in Wales. CREEK BRIGANDS. KIDNAP A PROFESSOII. corpormTiyilled. (Received May 30, 0.44 a.m.) CONSTANTINOPLE, May 29. Greek 'brigands in the Olympus mountains kidnapped « Gorman irrchaelogist, Professor Edward Kienter, after killing the corporal cf. his escort.

A gendarme was able to escape

LABOUR LEGISLATION. DRIVING THE SMALL MAN OUT. (Received May 30, 10.20 a.m.) SYDNEY, May 30. A meeting of the Shopkeepers' Defence Association resolved to ask the Government to repeal the Early Closing Act, especially that portion relating to a compulsory Saturday half holiday.

It is stated that it i- driving the small shopkeepers out of 'business. NATIONAL COUNCIL SCHEME. SIR JOSEPH WARD FURTHER CRITICISED. (Received May 30, 10.20 a.m.; SYDNEY, May 30. The Telegraph, referring to Sir Joseph Ward's National Couur.il scheme states that from the Mother Country to South Africa, tho youngest federation, all were unfavourable with a single exception. 'I his merely indicates that New Zealand misunderstood her isolation, if not her importance, an the counsels of the Empire.

SUNDAY PICTURES. SOME TALK OF RUIN. (Received May 3'), 0.20 a.m.) SYDNEY, May 30. A meeting of picture sliow propriej tors stated that the new Sunday regulations, prohibiting a collection at the entrance door, resulted in a loss of thirty to fifty per cent. Tilie meeting decided to send a deputation to Mi' Holman with a view to having the regulations rescinded, otherwise many businesses I would he ruined.

A PAPAL ENCYCLICAL. POSITION IX PORTUGAL. SEPARATION "NULL AND VOID.' (Received May 30, 9.44 a.m.) ROME, May 2d. A Papal encyclical, addressed to all the Bishops throughout the world, strongly denounces the measures that have been taken by the Gorernment of Portugal against the CO nirch. • It describes the separation of the Roman Catholic Church from the State as being null and void in the face of the inviolable rights of the Church.