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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10290, 19 July 1911, Page 5

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CABLE NEWS

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COURSING

WATERLOO CUP

Received This Morning, 12.50 o'clock

SYDNEY, July 18

At the coursing meeting to-day the first round in the Waterloo Cup was won by Golden Rod, who beat All Red, a New Zealand dog.

COLLIERY STRIKE

SYDNEY, July 18

Owing to the colliery strike practically the whole of the Lithgow ironworks is idle. A few small plants, including _tii° blast furnace, which requires little coal, are working. - Apart from the miners 500 men are out of work. RELIGIOUS RIOTS.

(Received Last Night, 11.40 o'clock LONDON, July 18. Fifty summonses have been issueG in connection witn the wrecking of mill workers' houses at Greencastle. The Belfast garrison is confined to the barracks. LIQUOR IN WESTRALIA. Received This Morning, 12.50 o'clock. PERTH, July 18. The report of the Health Department shows that the cost of alcoholic beverages last year was £8 15s 6d per head of population s —an increase of 13s 4£d per head on the previous year. FRANCE AND GERMANY. (Received Last Night, 10.40 o'clock.) BERLIN, July 18. Britain is being informed concerning .the Franco-Gen an negotiations. CONVALESCENT HOME. . FOR GERMAN OFFICERS. (Received Last Night, 10.40 o'clock.* EERLIN, July 18. The wife of General Isenbars ha.; founded a Convalescent Home for German jmcers at Oberplanita, at a cost of £IOO,OOO.

EGYPTIAN POLICY. ITS CONTINUANCE URGED. (Received Last Nu ht, 11.40 o'clock.) LONDON, July 18. Th-3 Radical me.nt-er?. of the House of Commons on the Foreign Affairs Committee havo decided to urge the Government to rraintain Sir Eldon Gorst's pro>j;re3si <• {-obey in Egypt. LEAGUE JOOTBALL. THE ENGLISH TEAM. (Received Last NijJit, 9.25 o'clock.) SYDNEY, July 18. The New Zea'aut? footballers are satisfied with thu team picked for England. Soif.o consider, however, that Rukutai shoui I be included. The Queenslandets are disappointed.