CONDENSED NEWS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10420, 11 September 1911, Page 3

CONDENSED NEWS.

... LONDON, September.B. Tihe heat wave has been practically unbroken since June. Tihe temperature in London is 90 in the shade. Two thousand five hundred Newport voters liave been struck off the Toll as the outcome of the decision of the Court that tenants are ineligible to vote if they do not directly pay the poor rate. Sir George Beid, v High Commissioner for Australia, is inaugurating an active advertising campaign to bring Australian products under notice in France, Austria, Switzerland, . (Germany, and Belgium, in view of the dear food outcry. He is also arranging many illustrated articles for publication in French papers? , . PARIS, September 8. A theatre in course of repairs "at Nice i,collapsed, burying 'forty' men. Sixteen dead bodies have been recovered, and a few others have, bfeen rescued badly injured; At Roubaix the mob of dear food agitatbrs wrecked the butchers' and dairymen's windows. The cavalry dispersed the mob, and several rioters were injured and a number arrested.

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Houssard, who confessed to the murder of Guillotin, has made several attempts at suicide. PEKIN, September S. ' The unrest in Szechuan is chiefly against the intervention of foreigners in railway construction. LISBON, September 8. All the newspapers state that there are twelve hundred armed Monarchists on the Portuguese frontier under Captain Omiriero. The authorities are confident of defeating the invasion. The north is peaceful but excited. The garrison at Oporto is in readiness for emergencies.