VARIOUS CABLES.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10515, 3 January 1912, Page 3

VARIOUS CABLES.

j (United Press Association —By Klftrie I'cleyiuiiu— Copi/i THE KING IN INDIA. RECEPTION IN BENGAL. (Received January 2, 8.5 a.m.) . CALCUTTA, Jaanuary 1. Their Majesties received tihe leading officials and citizens of Bengali at the great ampitheatre. A huge crowd lined the route, including live thousand veiled women. The .pavilion was screened with muslin. The "bag" of the Nepal big-game expedition consisted of eighteen rhinoceroses, four bears, and thirty-nine tigers, whereof tlho King shot twentyfour tigers. On one occasion ho secured a tiger ■and «i bear with the right and left barrels.

BURNED TO DEATH.

THREE GIRLS TERRIBLE END. ' (Received January 2, 8.5 a.m.) LONDON, January 1. Three small daughters of a private in the Argyll Highlanders and <a boy friend were locked in a bedroom of the married quarters in the barracks in Stirling Castle while the parent was away. They attempted to light the gas and fired the bedclothes. Their screams were not heard, and when the father returned the boy only was alive.

UNFOUNDED REPORT. MASSAORES AT TABRIZ. (Received January 2, 9.35 a;ro.) TEHERAN, January 1. The British consul reports that tlhe allegations of a. massacre by Russian troops at Taibriz are unfounded. The Russians treated the Persiain refugees, women and Children, kindly.

TIDAL WAVE. SMALL CRAFT DAMAGED. (Received January 2, 9.35 a.m.) LONDON, January 1. A tidal wave several feet Ihigli was experienced ajfc Folkstone, damaging small craft. The noise was heard a mile away.

THE CAUSE OF THE WAVE

(Received January 2, 10 a.m.) LONDON, January 1. The tidal wave at Folkstone was caused by a huge fell from the chits near Dover.

HANKAU ATTACKED. BY FOUR THOUSAND REBELS. (Received January 2, 8.5 a.m.) PEKIN, January 1. Four thousand revolutionaries have attacked Hankau. The figM is proceeding.

LABOUR TROUBLES. THE NEWPORT STRIKE. (Received January 2, 8.5 a.m.) LONDON, January 1. ; The Newport strike, which affected four thousand dockers, lias been temporarily settled, tlhe dockers tlhe dock companies will arrange to load the Houlders 'boats instead ol fre« labour.

ALL DEMOCRATIC RULES . BROKEN. (Received January 2, 8.5 a.m.) LONDON, January 1. A mass meeting of railway men jt Swansea unanimously resolved tlia the executives lhad broken all democratic rules by accepting tb e o°mrmssion's report while the ballot was in progress, and it was imperative that tbe'four secretaries of 'the executives (should retire.

ENGLAND'S MOVE. assumed hostility. (Received January 2, 9.35 a.m.) BERLIN, January 1. Most of -tlhe New Year articles m the German Press assume England s ■hostility, and many declare tih&b slie is preparing for war. The Cologne Gazette says ttet An-glo-German relations cannot remain as they are. Germany has done everytihing to avoid a world war, wfoidh stil. threatens. _ , The next 'move is with England.