VARIOUS CABLES.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10440, 4 October 1911, Page 5

VARIOUS CABLES.

. MURDER AND SUICIDE. HIGH COURT PRESIDENT SHOT. (Received Last Night, 11.20 o'clock.) ST. PETERSBURG, October 3. The President of the High Court. Abo Finland, was snot dead by an assassin, who afterwards committed suicide. NEW SOUTH WALES POLITICS. MR PERRY UNSEATED. (Received Last Night', 9.20 o'clock.) SYDNEY, October 3. As a result of the Elections > Committee of Enquiry, Mr Perry has been unseated .from the Liverpool Plains seat in the New South Wales Assembly. Another election is necessary. SAUSAGE CASE WORKERS. STRIKE FOR~AN INCREASE. (Received Last Night, 9.20 o'clock.) PERTH, October 3. At Goulbourn, 200 sausage case workers have struck for an increase of twp shillings weekly.

STORM IN THE NORTH SEA

FURTHER DISASTERS REPORTED. Received This Morning, 12.5 o'clock.

LONDON, October 8,

Eighteen on board t'h© steamer Hatfield, which collided with the Glasgow and foundered, during the storm in the North Sea, were drowned. The captain of the Glasgow states that his vessel was (lifted by a hugn wave and dashed upon the heavilyladen Hatfield, which sank in seven minutes.

ANTWERP, October 3. Eight river craft were wrecked eafct of Scheldt. Tht? entire shipping fleet at Blmuishe is missing. Many bodies and much wrenka?<i have drifted ashore at Scheldt. Many foiling boats foundered at Ostencl.