VARIOUS CABLES

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10471, 8 November 1911, Page 3

VARIOUS CABLES

United Press Association—By FJcrtrie Telegraph—Copyright.

HOME RULE

(Received November 7, 11.25 a.m.)

LONDON, November 6

In Ulster, a Liberal-Unionist manifesto has been issued stating that if Home Rule is imposed without an appeal to t'he electorate, the inhabitants would be justified in resisting. If Ulster should be plunged into a civil war, the responsibility would be with the Premier and the Cabinet, who are all blindly supporting the measure. «

WHITE CITY MAORIS

(Received November 7, 8.55 a.m.)

SYDNEY, November 7

According to advice;'received in Sydney, the Maori troupo in England aro in desperate straits. Though they possess return tickets they have no means of earning a livelihood till the steamer sails on November 11th.

! The Australian syndicate, who financed the White City venture, lost between £9OOO and £IO,OOO.

AVIATION

(Received November 7, 10.10 a.m.)

NEW YORK, November 6

The aviator, Rodgers, arrived at Pasadena, in California, and was greeted by an enormous multitude. He crossed the continent in 49 days, after meeting with numerous serious accidents.

The aeroplane was re-built seven times.

The aviator lost .twenty pounds in weight. The machine was a "Baby Wright."

A TERRIFIC GALE

(Received November 7, 8.5 a.m.)

LONDON, November 6

A gale is raging in Britain., blowing at the rate of eight miles an hour, with tremendous blinding squalls and hail. The Dieppenwhaven packet was blown ashore.

Fifteen aeroplanes in a shed were wrecked at Oxford.

THE PORT STEPHENS,

(Received November 7, 10.30 a.m.)

SYDNEY, November 6

The captain of the Port Stephens states that Jie is unable to account for the wreck.

Everything was all light, and he went into the cabin for a few minutes to put liis coat on, watching the man at the wheel through the open door. Almost immediately he felt a bump. The morning was clear and bright.

RESULT OF SYDNEY STRIKE

(Received November 7, 10.30 a.m.)

SYDNEY, November 7

As an outcome of the wharf labourers strike a meeting of clerks adopted resolutions, in favour of the formation of a clerks union, and that any future requests for them to do work other than that for which they ii.ro engaged be restricted. The resolution will be forwarded to the steamship owners and the "Wharf Labourers' Union, with a request for the latter's co-operation.

THE LITHGOW STRIKE

(Received November 7, 8.55 a.m.)

SYDNEY, November 7,

The application made by the Arbitration Court for commitment warrants against the men, fined for the Lithgow strike,, stated that negotiations for a settlement of the strike were proceeding.

The matter lias been adjourned for a week. -

MOUNT LYELL STRIKE

(Received November 7, 9.10 a.m.)

MELBOURNE, November 7

Another conference between the Mount Lye 11 directors and representative of the strikers proved futile. After a short discussion the directors announced, that they were not prepared to deal with the miners while the threat of an engine-drivers' strike existed.

The conference was adjourned till Wednesday. Subsequently all the engineers, firemen and miners, numbering 130, were ordered out, and ceased work.

Besides .stopping the mines, the electric lighting in the town has been cut off. \

THE EIGHT-HOUR BILL

(Received November 7, 9.10 a.m.)

SYDNEY, November 7,

At the Newcastle Eight-Hour Demonstration, a resolution was adopted regretting that the Government had not given legal sanction t» the eight-hour day. Mr Edden, in a speech, said a iot of the trouble the Government had experienced in the matter had come not only from their enemies, but from their own household. If the EightHour Bill is not the law of the land next year it would not be the fault of the Labour Government.

THE MOROCCAN AGREEMENT

SATISFACTORY TO FRANCE AND GERMANY.

(Received November 7, 8.5 a.m.)

PARIS, November 6

M. Caillaux states that the guiding principle in the Moroccan negotiations was that the positions occupied in Central Africa, could not bo regarded as final.

It was a, far-sighted policy for many European Powers to prepare an exchange. Tlie agreement was entirely satisfactory to France and Germany. It releases Morocco from the heaviest mortgages wherewith it was burdened.

France, subject, to the conditions respecting economic equality, can extend her action over country more vast, fortilo 'and populous than Algeria. and Tunis.

THE BIRKBECK HANK

(Received November 7, 9.10 a.m.)

LONDON, November 6. Mr Justice Neville has decided that the Birkbeck Bank directors exceeded their borrowing powers for banking and that as the depositors had notice of the illegality they would come last

in the distribution of assets,

(Received November 7, 10.10 a.m.)

NEW YORK, November 6. A steel span bridge being built by the JVlountain Quarries Company across the American river at Auburn, California, collapsed. Many persons were injured. Three bodies have been recovered.

NUMBER OF VESSELS LOST,

(Received November 7, 9.45 a.in.)

LONDON, November 6. The steamer Hansey which was wrecked at the Lizards lias disappeared. Her cargo is washing ashore. Ihe Greek steamer Lordos Byron foundered in the channel, twenty-two persons being drowned. The Haggest-on Castle from Northumberland, belonging to Mr Christopher Ley land, and containing a number of valuable pictures, was burnt. The damage is estimated .at £'loo,ooo.

BRIDGE COLLAPSES

SHIPPING DISASTERS