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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10282, 10 July 1911, Page 5

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♦- GLASGOW FUNCTIONS. PREMIERS WARMLY RECEIVED. United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph — Copyright. Received July 8, 8.5 a.m.) LONDON, July 7. Mr Fisher and Sir Joseph Ward, Premiere of Australia and New Zealand respectively, were accorded a splendid reception at the various Glasgow functions. Sir Joseph Ward, at a luncheon at the City Chambers, said New Zealanders would he pleased to receive the Lord Provost's message of affectionate good will. Field-Marshal Lord Kitchener, >n receiving the Freedom of the City, remarked that lie was particularly pleased to he associated with Mr Fisher tr.'d Sir Ward, because he bad submitted to their Governments a scheme of military reorganisation which was now being carried out with the thoroughness that so notably marked all Australia's and New Zealand's undertakings. The Freedom of the City has been conferred upon Mr Andrew Fisher, Prime Minister of Australia. Sir John and Lady Findlay have started for the Continent. AVIATION RACE. RETURN FLIGHT TO PARIS. (Received July 8, 8.50 a.m.) PARIS, July 7. M. won the circuit race for aviators from Paris to Brussels and London and back. M. Parros was second and M. Vidait third. The aviators received an ovation on arriving at Vincennes, the Paris terminus of the race. M. Kimmerling fell in the-Depart-ment of Pr . de Calais, and wrecked his machine. He completed his journey on a fresh aeroplane. VESSEL OVER::IE. FEARS ENTERTAINED FOR HKR . ;;.. > SAFETY. (Received July 8, 9.45 a.m.) ADELAIDE, Thi; Day. . Fears are entertained for the safety of the American four-masted schooner, Espada, now IS6 days out from Gray's ha:hoirr, Washington, to Adelaide, timber iadon. Apprehension has been increased since the recent washing a-hore of timber at Lord Howe Island. / IN EVENT OF WAR. WHY GERMANY INTERVENED. (Received July 8, 8.5 a.m.) BERLIN, July 7. The Berlin journal Die Post declares that Germany's real vital interest in an independent Morocco is that Germany should, in the event of a war, be able to start a Mohammedan insurrection against France, in order to prevent the latter from employing North African native troops in Europe. MR ASQUITH'S STATEMENT. (Received July 8, 8.50 a.m.) PARIS, July 7. The French newspapers generally commend Mr Asquith's statement in regard to Morocco, considering that it will further strengthen the entente between the two nations.

CONSPIRACY CHARGE. KNIGHT AND BOWRON SENTENCED. (Received July 8, 8.5 a.m.) LONDON, July 7. At the trial of Thomas Loonan Knight for conspiring with John Bowron to defraud Messrs Booth 8r0*.., skin merchants, of £28,670, Mr Travers Humphreys, prosecuting counsel, said the books showed that Knight was the defendants' dock manager, without whose signatures the fraud was impossible. He borrowed from the firm £8460. and his son borrowed £2394. Nothing was repaid. Mr Muir, in mitigation of the sentence on John Bowron, urged the defendant's age, and thefact that he had not made provision for his family out of the disaster. The turnover of the business in London was £300,000 per annum. For many years pa«t the firm's capital • had not exceeded £35.000 or £40.000. The Bowron family had lost £131,000 in the matter. Sir F. A. Bosanquet, Common Sergeant, in passing sentence, said the defendants had been guilty of- grave mercantile frauds. It would have been far better had the firm gone into liquidation when in difficulties, instead of continuing in the speculative hope that trade would boom'. There was no difference in the cases of the accused, and but for his age and the face of John Bowron not putting by large sums, he would have pronounced a sentence of penal servitude. WORK AND WAGES. SITUATIOnIt GLASGOW. ' (Received July 8, 8.50 a.m.) LONDON, July 7. The strike situation at Glasgow is improving. The coasting dockers have

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resumed work. The Salford miners will resume work on Monday. Some of the mills at Salford have already started. RAILAVAY SERVANTS. GET A SUBSTANTIAL ADVANCE. (Received July 8, 8.55 a.m.) BRISBANE, July 8. The Executive Council has approved a substantial increase of wages in the lower-paid branches of the railway service. Seven thousand men will benefit by the advance. QUEENSLAND SUGAR STRIKE. (Received July 8, 8.55 a.m.) MELBOURNE, July 8 The Hon. F. S. Tudor, Minister of Ciistoms, declares that serious losses are certain unless the trouble in tha sugar industry is adjusted. Some growers are looking at black ruin. The industry employs 20,000 men. ENGAGING MEN IN SYDNEY. (Received July 8, 9.15 a.m.) SYDNEY, July 8. Men are being engaged in Sydney to fill the places of the strikers in the Queensland sugar-fields. The Labour Council has decided to appoint pickets. A SAD PROCESSION. (Received July 8, 1.55 a.m.) LONDON, July 7. Two thousand dockers' wives, with babes in arms and their other chiid • ren hanging to their skirts, marched in procession through Manchester and Salford. ■ A fund for the relief of the docke,i was collected.