VARIOUS CABLES.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10514, 2 January 1912, Page 5

VARIOUS CABLES.

WOMEN'S SUFFRAGE. (Received Last Nigjht, 10.10 o'clock.) LONDON, December 31. The Right Hon. D. Lloyd-George will address a mass meeting at the Albert Hall on February 23rd, in support of Women's Suffrage.

REFERENDUM URGED. (Received Last Nigjlvt, 10.10 o'clock.) LONDON, December 31. The Westminster Gazette eontinnes to urge t?fie adoption of the referendum as a means of overcoming tlhe differences in tlie Cabinet and a spfjit througliout tiho party.

ARREST OF ANARCHISTS. (Received Last Night, 10.10 o'clock.) PARIS, December 31. Four arrests, including De Hveiller, a world-known anarch s, and his wife have beean made in connection witlh the Mont Miartre Bank messengers. A NGLO-PORTU GU ESE AGREE-

(Received Last NigfEt, 10.10 o'clock.) LISBON, Deeeember 31. Under the new. Anglo-Portuguese, agreement-, ; the Islands in the river Ruio and Shire are assigned partly to Mazambique and partly to British Central Africa. AEROPLANE IMPROVEMENTS. (Received Last Night, 10.10 o'clock.) LONDON, December 31. The War Office is considering Arthur Wigrams Australian aerial torpedo, also an Indian engineer's invention for preserving the equilibrium. NATIONALISING THE TELEPHONE. (Received Last Night, 10.10 o'clock.)

LONDON, December 31

The C'ivil Service wis increased by 18,000 at midnight 011 Sunday by the Government taking over the National Telephone Company. THIEVES CONFESS. (Received Last Night, 10.10 o'clock.) PA IMS, December 31. The Polica at Monte Carlo have received Madame Leona's jewels. Tlio (thieves, who are members of an interjewels were buried on the beach. ENGLISH POOR RELIEF. (Received Last Nigjlit, 10.10 o'clock ) LONDON, December 31. In accordance with the Royal Commission's report, the Board of Ghiardiianis will' be empowered to modify the labour tests amd adbpt many reforms i'n the admiini&tration of relief.