VARIOUS CABLES.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10268, 21 June 1911, Page 6

VARIOUS CABLES.

United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.

A SHEARERS' DISPUTE

(Received June 20, 9 a.m.)

SYDNEY, June 20,

The hearing of the shearers' application for an award in the shearing industry is dragging along. Mr Justice Higgins remarked that it looked like stretching over till the crack of doom. PRISON REFORM. (Received June 20, 10.25 a.m.) LONDON, June 19. Dr. Findlay, Attorney-General of New Zealand, in an interview published in the Evening Standard, explained the working of the system of indeterminate sentences in vogue in lS T ew Zealand, and of the Waiotapu farm and tree-planting camps. The Standard states that the system put New Zealand in the forefront of the world for scientifically humane treatment of prisoners. DECLARATION OF LONDON. UNANIMOUSLY CONDEMNED. (Received June 20, 10.5 a.m.) LONDON, June 19. At a private conference of British Admirals, at which Lord Charles Beresford presided, it was unanimously resolved that the Declaration of London be condemned. Lord Charles Beresford, in a message convening the meeting, said the danger that was staring Britain in the face was not invasion but starvation. AERIAL FLIGHTS. (Received June 20, 8.15 a.m.) PARIS, June 19. In the presence of a gathering of seven hundred thousand persons, Lendron, one of the competitors in the Paris-Brussels-London aeroplane race, fell at Chateau Thierry, and was burned to death through an explosion in the petrol tank firing the aeroplane. BUDA~PEST, June 19. A novice in the aviation field lost control of his aeroplane, and was dashed towards the spectators. The propellor decapitated a girl.

COLqNIAL TROOPS. (Received June 20, 8.15 a.m.)

LONDON, June 19

Fifteen hundred colonial troops, accompanied by the Grenadier Guards' band, attended a service at St. Paul's Cathedral yesterday. The Roman Catholic members of the various contingents attended a service in the Westminster Cathedral. ral.

The Duke of Connaught and Lord Kitchener inspected the New Zealanders and other colonial troops at the Duke of York's School. A thousand troops afterwards went to the Festival of Empire, where they were inspected by Viscount Haldane and-General Sir lan Hamilton. THIRTY BOYS POISONED. (Received June 20, 8.15 a.m.) LONDON, June 19. Thirty Roman Catholic working boys, in a Home in Edinburgh, were seized with illness, apparently caused by some irritant poison. One died. The others are progressing towards recovery.

A number of residents in the vicinity are ill, and the milk supply is suspected.