VARIOUS CABLES

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10478, 15 November 1911, Page 5

VARIOUS CABLES

THE DOMINION' SLUB. (Received Last Night, D.-io o'clock.* LONDON, November 14. 'jJnle Hospitality Gouuni'fcbee in connection with tli© festival of Empire has. appointed, a. Special Committee to consider the question of ir iking itttie Dfomiinaon ClLub for oversea* visitors a permanency. , COLONIAL LAND COMPANY. ( SATISFACTORY REPORT. (Received Last Nigjht, 10.34 o'clock.) LONDON, November 14. The report of the New Zealand and Australian Land Company showed a. profit of £272,013. A further dividend of four per cent, tand a htonus of seven per' cent, were declared. A sum of £Bojooo was added to contingency fund, and . £2103 wars cairried forward. BRITISH BY-ELECTION. A UNIONIST WIN. (Received Last Nigjkit, 9.45 o'clock.) LONIK)N, November 11. The iby-election for the Oldham Beat, consequent upon the R ; Hon. A. ©manott (Liberal) fcciug raised to the Peerage, resulted as fbHowis i-E. R. D. Dennis (Unionist) ! Mr Sltanley (Liberal 1 ) 18,b23 Mr* Robinson (Labour) 7,ilS I v l " i N --. At the general election last jear, the polling for the Oldham scat was as followsßight Hon. A. Emmott, 17,108; A. W. Barton (Liberal) 16,941; J. (Unionist) 13,440; Is. R. D. Dennis (Dniohist), 13,281. j RIOTS AT TUNIS. (Received T<asit Ndgjht, 10.34 o'clock.) TUNIS, November 1-». Twenty-one Arabs were sentenced to terms of imprisonment- ranging foam three weeks to twelvfe mouths, in connection ,wiith the ret/nt ribts. YOUNG GERMAN LEAGUE. FORMALLY FOUNDED. (Received Last Nigjit, 10.34 « clock.) BERLIN, November 14. A Young Germain League, .uodellfci aifiber the 'English Boy Scouts, tas been formally founded, under tfcft presidency of Field Marshal son Dergol'z. ABOR PUNITIVE EXPepiTION. SKIRMISHES WITH THE ENEMY (Received Last Night, 10.34 o\ii ck.) CALCUTA, Nove-nber l!. TSh© Abor jranitive expedition engaged in fijflgjht Skirmishes w'.tli the eneirvy, wKfc have deserted the village of Khai'an, losing oue killed and several wounded. One of jtheBritish party was killed. BATTLE WITH THE CALE. A SCHOONER RESCUED. Received This Moi'iiing, 12.35 o'clock NEW YORK, November I<L The passengers •of the schooner Washington were rescued after a> terrific battle with the gale! A tug, after many failures, managed to get a line aboard, and towed the vessel off 'the rocks. CLOSING OF HOTELS. Received Tihis Morning, 12.35 o'clock SYDNEY, November 14. Tn, the Assembly, Ma* iJamitmell obtained leave to introduce a Bill to provide for (the earlier closing of hotels. RUSSIA AND PERSIA. REPLY TO THE NOTE. Received This Morning, 12.31 o'clock TEHERSN, November 14. The head of the Foreign Office has informed the Russian Minister that until the Cabinet, its formed it is impossible ti> reply to the ultimatum.