VARIOUS CABLES

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10431, 23 September 1911, Page 3

VARIOUS CABLES

United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.

NEW SOUTH WALES POLITICS

(Received September 22, 9.40 a.m.)

SYDNEY, September 22. During the Debate' on Mr Wood's motion, the Speaker repeatedly called Mr Wood to order. He said:' "He is getting tedious indeed." Opposition voice: Tedious, my grandmother! The Speaker picked out Mr Fitzpatrick and ordered his removal. The Oppositionists protested. The Speaker declared that if a member was called to order three times, he could be removed at any time subsequently. Several Liberals, who are in that position, were dumfounded. Finally, ruling the motion out of order., the Speaker declared that notice of dissent must be given within thirty minutes. He would in future enforce the Standing Orders with greater stringency.

SCULLING

(Received Sept. 22, 9.40 a.m.) SYDNEY, September 22. Arnst has received a challenge from R. Stevenson, of Westport, to row him over a five mile course on the P-arramatta river. Arnst replies that he will row him on any course for a stake, but a championship cannot be involved in a five miles race, as the rules do not allow it.

THE IRISH STRIKES. (Received Sept. 22, 9.40 a.m.) LONDON, September 21. Several Nationalist newspapers denounce the strike and protest that Ireland is being made the vile body for experiment bv English Socialists. The Irish Times denounces the absence of Mr Birrell and Lord Aberdeen during such a crisis. Food stuffs are rotting-because the Government has not sufficient pluck to send a protecting convoy.

(Received September 22, 11 a.m.) LONDON, September 21. The Irish producers are incensed against the strikers. There is a partial resumption of work at Rosslare.

THE TROUBLE IN SPAIN.

■ (Received Sept. 22, 11 a.m.)

MADRID, September 21.

A mob at Cativa stoned the Charseurs, who fired, killing one and wounding several. « The general strike has collapsed.

ITALY AND TRIPOLI

(Received Sept. 22, 8.5 a.m.)

ROME, September 21. There are evidences that Italy is preparing to occupy Tripoli. Two squadrons are forming and one it is believed will act as a safeguard ait Tripoli and the .other will protect Italian interests in the Levant. The Porte is uneasy over the reported Italian activity in regard to Tripoli.

(Received Sept. 22, 9.40 a.m.)

: , CONSTANTINOPLE, Sept. 21. One hundred Tripolitan nobles have seat an address tp the jGrfand Vizier of Turkey, stating that the entire population would shed their last drop of blood sooner than be crushed under Italy's heel. The notables demand ammunition and fortifications.

MEDICAL CONGRESS

(Received Sept. 22, 9.5 a.m'.)

SYDNEY, September 22. The Medical Congress :'s discussing a, paper on syncope, collapse, and shock. Dr. Martin (New Zealand) declared that the influence of fear had a decided bearing on shock and was a great mental factor to be combated and allayed. Referring to battlefield injuries, he said the mental state of soldiers had an influence on the production of shock. After, the battler of Graspan and Belmont the patients entered the hospitals in excellent spirits: after the disaster of Magersfontein they were depressed and miserable, the [shock was more pronounced, and their suffering greater.

(Received Sept. 22, 9.40 a.m.) BERLIN, September 21. Dr. Gileson, on the subject of opthalmology, declared that plumbic optic euritis in children was contracted through playing on painted verandahs. Dr. Barrett, in stating that syphilis was the predominant disease among •mankind, raised the question of whether it could be suppressed, stating that it was quite impossible. Humans usually live to a good old age. There was certainly less eye and ear disease now. ' Dr. Purdy, in a paper on goitre, said the result of investigations in Tasmania and New Zealand inclined him to the opinion that goitre was prevalent where people drank glacier water

or lived on flats through which glacier •water drained. THE MOROCCAN CRISIS. (Received Sept. 22, 8.5 a.m.) PARIS, September 21. Anti-war and dear food meetings are prohibited in the city. BERLIN, September t2l. The Berliner Tageblatt accuses the Government of misleading the public •by recent optimistic inspired accounts regarding Morocco. A GOOD SIGN.

(Received Sept. 22, 9.40 a.m.)

! PARIS, September 21. j Both France and Germany are dis- | banding time expired conscripts. ! THE' PRIZE-FIGHT. (Received Sept. 22, 9.40 a.m.) LONDON, September v 2l. Mr White, the promoter of the prize fight, proposes that the Rev. F. B. Meyer should nominate six .arbitrators and the Sportsman newspaper another six, and if they decide that kinematograph pictures are degrading, the Rev. •Mr Meyer shall open a fund to repay £SOOO given by the photographers for the right to the pictures. Mr White suggests that three men shall control the fight to avoid the introduction of offensive elements. Mr Meyer declares his intention to persist in his opposition owing to racial considerations.