VARIOUS CABLES.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10406, 29 August 1911, Page 3

VARIOUS CABLES.

United Press Association—-By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.

THE HOME STRIKES

THE SWEDISH EXPEDITION

CANADIAN POLITICS,

A GERMAN TRAGEDY.

THE GRAVESEND AFFAIR

A TERRIBLE EXPLOSION.

THE MARYLEBONE CRICKET TEAM.

MAWSON EXPEDITION,

MIXED MARRIAGES

TRAIN WRECKERS

A NEW ZEALAND SUGGESTION,

(Received August 28, 9 a.m.)

LONDON, August 27

Sir William Hall-Jones, in an interview, recommended the adoption of New Zealand's system of compulsory arbitration. Mr Will Crooks' Strike Bill compels employers and workers to give thirty days notice of a change affecting working conditions and wages, and fixes penalties for lock-outs, strikes, or inciting thereto prior to the investigation of a dispute by a Board, the latter consisting of three members appointed by ffche Board of Trade on. application by the parties to the dispute.

(Received August 28, 10.10 a.m.)

PERTH, August 28,

Members of the Swedish scientific expedition describe the north-west of Australia as the most interesting country in the world from a scientific standpoint. Many of the natives have a distinct Semitic cast of features, and they are decidedly canibalistic.

(Received August 28, 8.40 a.m.)

OTTAWA, August 27. Mr Fisher, Minister of Agriculture, is campaigning in Quebec. Attacking the Opposition, he declared that the Party was preaching a doctrine of timidity and cowardice by refusing to accept fthe Reciprocity Agreement. Heiaccussed Mr Siffcon, a former supporter of the Laurier Government, of cowardice in raising the annexation cry. That cry was utterly baseless. , Sir 'Wilfrid Laurier declared that if defeated in the Reciprocity, issue his heart would break.

(Received August. 28, 8.40 a.m.)

BERLIN, August 27,

Gunderloch, a farmer of Kendel Hisse, who squandered his patrimony and deserted his wife and family, returned from London .on Friday, and went to his father-in-law's house; - He shot his father-in-law, his mothe r-in-la\v, brother-in-law, and sister-dn-kw,'and finally shot, his wife as she was seeking to-escape from a window. All the victims are dead. Gunderloch committed suicide.

(Received August 28, 8.40 a.m.)

LONDON, August 27

Messrs Secretan and Company are owners or the steamers detained at Barrow and Gravesend. A third steamer named the Salop, belonging to the same company, sailed on July 30th for Buenos Ayres. The nature of the cargo is unknown. Several newspapers make ia- suggestion connecting the embargoed steamers with Royalist projects in Portugal.

(Reoeiyed August 28, 8.40 a.m.)

NEW YORK,'August: 27. Anexplosion off -a moving picture film occurred in the Morgan Giant Opera House at Cannon&burg. The alarm of fire started a panic, and women and children were jammed in the stairway, many .being knocked down, trampled to death, or smothered. The death roll totals twenty-five, besides many injured. Numbers of gallant rescues were effected.

(Received August 10.5(1) a.m.)

, LONDON, August 27,

The Pall Mailt Gazette say® that the Marylebone team for Australia, is a . powerful one> -containing admirable exponents-pf -every side : of the game; and in everyway playing it well. ~ &ldbe: says it is a SoUii'd" mahlike team* with an abnormal quantity of. bowling talent, which is, however, of good quality.

K (Received August 28,10.10 a.m.)

MELBOURNE, August 27. Dr. Mawson, in an interview, , declared ithat it was not his intention to attempt to/reach tihe South Pole. The object of his expedition is to open up unknown coast lines of Australia.

AN ARCHBISHOP'S RESOLVE

(Received August 28, 8.40 a.m.)

SYDNEY, August 28. Archbishop Kelly, who has been installed as head of the Roman Catholic Qhurch in ;New South, Wales, in an address, declared that "to prevent adultery Iwill never sahotaon a mixed ; marriage • without having a; dagger - driven < into my heart." ■ '

A SERIOUS ATTEMPT

(Received August 28, 10.10 a.m.)

BRISBANE, August 27. ; A serious attempt to wreck a train wias discovered at Millton.

Large boulders were placed on the line, but were discovered before the train approached. . '