VARIOUS CABLES

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10441, 5 October 1911, Page 6

VARIOUS CABLES

United Press Association — By Electric Telegraph — Copyright. MERCHANT MARINE. (Received October 4, 8.50 a.m.) NEW YORK, October 3. A move is afoot in San Francisco for building up the American merchant marine. The Chamber of Commerce adopted a resolution urging that vessels flying the American flag should be allowed to pass through the Panama Canal without toll.

LIBEKTE VICTIMS,

(Received October 4, 11.25 a.m.)

PARIS, October 3. There was an impressive ceremony at the burial of the Liberte victims. Admiral Poe and the officers of the Exmouth represented the British navy. M. Fallieres, when paying a tribute to the dead, said tlliat the world-wide sympathy had gone straight to the hearts of the Frenchmen. •

PORTUGUESE ROYALISTS

(Received October 4, 8.50 a.m.) MADRID, October 3. Travellers from Portugal report that the accused Royalists arrested at Oporto include two majors and several sergeants. The inhabitants of Santi Thyrso, in Northern Portugal, are parading the streets and cheering the King. According to a newspaper published in Santiago, d© •Compostella Cbuceivo has entered Portugal at the head of four thousand men, with several guns and quick-firers and 120 mules. A recent message from Lisbon stated that the .Catholic Club at Oporto had 'been raided by the authorities, and three hundred monarchists were arrested, after ia slharp fight.

STRIKE SETTLED

(Received October 4, 8.50 a.m.)

LONDON, October 3,

After lasting eight weeks, the strike of five thousand railway men at the Nor wish works has been settled largely in favour of the men. The loss in wages iamounted to £36,000 and strike pay to £19,000.

BRUTAL CRIME

(Received October 4, 8.5 a.m.)

LONDON, October 3

A little girl named Weir, on returning from school at Kidsgrove, Staffordshire, found her mother, the widow of a colliery manager, her sister., aged four, and a. servant girl with their heads horribly battered and stabbed to death. Thirty pounds was stolen from the house. Two tramps iare suspected.

WESTRALIAN ELECTIONS

(Received October 4, 9.50 a.m.)

PERTH, October 4. A complete Labour victory is indicated.

The latest figures point <to the defeat of the Hon. H. Gregory, Minister of Railways, Hon. H. Daglish, Minister of Works, . Hon. James Mitchell. Minister of Lands, and Hon. J. L, Nanson, Attorney-General and Minister of Education.

MINING ACCIDENT,

(Received October 4, 9.50 a.m.)

BRISBANE, October 4

The straight shaft of tlhe Marshall's j Queen mine at Charters Towers col- j lapsed and imprisoned four miners. I The only communication with them / is by a five hundred'feet rise from the '. Bonnie Dundee mine. 1 The staff are building fifty ladders i

ten feet long and it is expected that j tho rescue will take place to-day.