VARIOUS CABLES

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10438, 2 October 1911, Page 5

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CABLE NEWS

United Press Association — By Electric Telegraph — Copyright.

A BIG STRIKE. Received This Morning, 12.45 o'clock. NEW YORK, October 1. A strike has been declared among the American railway workshopmen. From twenty to' thirty thousand men are out throughout the country.

BILLIARDS. GRAY v. COOK. LONDON, September 30. In a billiards match of 18,000 up against Cook, who is'recemng 6000, George Gray has scored 16,500, including a break of 1135. Cook has scored 11,000. COAL MINERS.

ABNORMAL WORKING PLACE?. (Received Last Nightys.s o'clock.) LONDON, September 30. A joint conference of coal miners and owners failed to find a national basis of settlement of the wages for abnormal working places.

AVIATION

A GERMAN FATALITY. (Received Last Night, 5.5 o'clock.) BERLIN, September ~30. Captain Englehardt, an experienced airman, fell from bis aeroplane and was killed. His passenger, Sedlemeyer, is lying unconscious at a hospital.

FOOTBALL. THE AUSTRALIANS AT HOME. Received This Morning, 12.15 o'clock. LONDON, October 1. The Australian footballers defeated the Broughton Rangers- by three goals and four tries to a goal and two tries. Francis scored one try and kicked two goals. The match was witnessed by 10,000 peaple.