CABLE BREVITIES.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10273, 28 June 1911, Page 5

CABLE BREVITIES.

DIPLOMATIC. (Received June 27, 12.40 p.m.) OTTAWA, June 26. It is reported that Sir William Whyte, who has just been knighted, may succeed Lord Strathcona as High Commissioner for Canada in London. RAILWAY DEAL. LONDON, June 26. The shareholders of the London, Tilbury and Southend Railway have approved of the sale of the railway Ito the Midlands. ' TUBERCULOSIS. LONDON, June 26. The quarterly public health report of London shows that of seven hundred and sixty samples of milk, a hundred and six were affected with tuberculosis. WHEAT CROP. VANCOUVER, June 26. * Frequent rains on the prairies' have been the cause of. a phenomenal growth of wheat. Heavy storms are raging. NORTHUMBERLAND MINERS. LONDON, Juno 26. The Northumberland Miners' Council has decided- to ballot in favour of tendering notices to strike against the three-shift system, and to ask the Federatioi in Britain to agree to a national stoppage. PAYMENT OF MEMBERS. LONDON, June 26. Mr Asquith has intimated that he does not intend t» introduce the Bill for, the payment of members' this session^ BALLOON LOST. BERLIN, June 26. A batlloon from Paris was lost in the North Sea, two people being drowned. - STEAMER WRECKED. ST. PETERSBURG, June 26. A steamer returning to Stockholm from fHelsingfors was wrecked on the Skerff'es: The fate of four hundred excursionists is unknown. AN EXPLOSION. LONDON, June 26. An explosion on the battleship Illustrious, at Spithead, while coaling, injured three stokers. AT THE WHITE CITY. LONDON, June 26. The Duke of Teck, ; presided, at a. luncheon tt- the Overseas Parliamentarians at the White. Cjty v . ,and ; ., also; opened the press section of the Exhibition in the presence of the Duke" of Argyll, Sir Henry Lawson, ahd"Sir.W. Hall-Jones;