VARIOUS CABLES

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10464, 31 October 1911, Page 5

VARIOUS CABLES

CABLE NEWS

United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.

QUEEN MARY

COURT TRAIN* FOR DURBAR

Received This Morning, 12.5 o'clock

LONDON, October 30,

Her Majesty the Queen at the Durbar will wear a Court train of Irish lace, with a design of roses and fuchsias, the gift of the ladies of Belfast.

QUEENSLAND HARVEST

A FAILURE

(Received Last Night, 9.20 o'clock.)

BRISBANE, October 30

The Government Statist reports that the wheat crop will be practically a failure. He estimates the. area in grain to be 47,538 acres, yielding 381,224 bushels. The area in hay is 6543 acres, yielding 4436' tons.

CRUISER ABOUEIR

REPORTED PURCHASE BY CANADA.

(Received October 30, 8.5 a.m.)

MALTA, October 29

It is stated here that the Canadian Government has purchased the cruiser Aboukir.

The Abnukir is a. twin-cscrew armoured cruiser of 12,000 tons displacement, attached to the Sixth Cruiser Squadron in the Mediterranean. She was completed in 1902 at a cost of £751,118.

BRITISH NAVY,

PERMANENT BASE AT LAMLASH BAY.

(Received October 30, 9 a.m.)

LONDON, October 29. A permanent naval base is being established at Lamlash Bay.

Lamlash, Bay/Isle, of Arcaiu,,. .Scotland, fonri's anexcelleht harbour;' very large and deep, and,protected by Holy isle. '• : V ■.."■, '•'J:"-v; '., '■'■'■■■

SELF-SACRIFICING CABINET ', MINISTERSWILL CUT DOWN THEIR OWN SALARIES.

(Received October. 30, 10.30 a.m.)

PERTH, October 30,

It is stated that one of the first acts of the new Ministers will be to reduce their salaries —that of the Premier to £I2OO, and~6f the . others to £IOOO each. '\ .

JOHANNESBURG MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS.

LABOUR SUCCESS,

(Received October 30; 9 a.m.)

CAPETOWN, October 29,

The Labour Party and their sympathisers obtained a majority at thtf Johannesburg municipal elections. Their chief plank was taxation of site values.

SCOTTISH UNIVERSITIES

NEW LORD RECTORS

(Received October 30, 9 a.m.)

LONDON, October 29. , The Earl Minto (late -Viceroy of India) was elected Lord Rector of Edinburgh University, defeating the Marquis of Crewe (Secretary of State for India). Mr Birrell (Chief Secretary for Ireland) was elected Lord Rector of jjrlasgow University, defeating Lord Charles Beresford, M.P.

Mr Andrew Carnegie was elected Lord Rector of Aberdeen University unopposed.

SIR REDVERS BULLER

MEMORIAL UNVEILED IN 'WINCHESTER CATHEDRAL.

(Received October 30 ,9 a.m.)

LONDON, October 29,

There was a great gathering in Winchester Cathedral when a recumbent bronze figure of the late General Sir Redvers Buller, by..the Australian, sculptor, Bertram Maekennal, was unveiled by General Lord Grenfell.

The late Sir Redvers Builer \ras born in Devonshire, in 1839. He saw much service, and had it great reputation as a fighter. In 1899 be was Commander-in-Chief of the British. forces in South Africa, being superceded in that position by Lord Roberts. Sir Redvers resigned from the Army in 1901. He died on June 2nd, 1908, at the age of sixty-eight years.

COMMERCIAL AGREEMENT*.

BRTTTAIN AND GERMANY.

(Received October 30, 9 a.m.)

BERLIN, October 2"),

A Bill has been introduced ui tho Reichstag empowering; tho Government to renew for swo years ihe pr-••• visional commercial arrangement with Britain and her dominions.