VARIOUS CABLES.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10519, 6 January 1912, Page 3

VARIOUS CABLES.

\ (Lmtcd Press Amiciution — By hh> tric Telegraph — Copyright.) EARL'S SON. DIES AT FREMANTLE. (Received January o, 8.45 a.m.) FREMANTLE, January d. Captain Otwmy Cuffe, tiiird son of the Earl of Desnrt, who was'touring the world, arrived hero on Monday and died of pneumonia. In accordance with cabled instructions from the parents, the body was cremated. HOME RULE. MR TIM HE A LEY'S OPINION. (Rccoi ved Ja nt:ary 5, 11.25 a.m.) LONDON, January 4. Mr Tim Healey, addressing the "AH For Ireland League" at Mallow said he and lliis colleagues would support any reasonable form of Homo Rule which was fair to Ireland from a : fiscal point of view. j Mr John Redmond's promises of | Home Rule were false. There waa j no chance of passing tthe Bill during , tho present Parliament. GRIME IN FRANCE. A DAY'S TOLL. / (Received January 5, 8.5 a.m.) PARIS, January 1. There were six murders and 'ive suicides in Franco yesterday. Burglars stole £BOO and valuable securities from a house in the suburbs of Paris, and murdered tthe owner, (aged 91, and a female servant. A grand-daughter discovered a couple aged eighty-two and seveutyeaglit murdered in ttheir beds at j, ■ Lemans. Burglars had stolen £56, the , J proceeds of a sale of land. A miser, aged eighty-two, ;vas •murdered, and his daughter attempted - suicide to avoid payment of an indemnity after being charged with arson. A triple suicide occurred at Calais, when a wifo and her husband and son, who had failed in the haberdasliery business, took their oiwn lives. TORCH-LIGHT TAITOO. } THEIR MAJESTIES IN INDIA. [ (Received January 5, 8.5 a.m.) CALCUTTA, January 4. Their Majesties held a torchlight I tattoo at Maidan, near the Government House. i There were half a million spectators, i and the scene was a brilliant one, including a. ride with torches and fixed lances and a wild Khattas dance. ' * A DENIAL. DR. BOUCHARD'S ALLEGATIONS. I (Received Januaa;y 5, 9.35 a.m.) Q SYDNEY, January 5. j Father Ohevruil, procurator of the | Maxist missions overseas, denies Dr I Borchard's allegations against the | priests at Wallis Island and declares | that they are a libel on the missions. | He asserts that Dr. Borchard is g afflicted witfli anti-religious mono- 1 mania, and is going beyond his | powers, which are restricted to esternal affairs. . j ON THE WAR-PATH. ANTI-PRIZE FIGHTERS ACTIVE. (Received January 5, 8.45 a.m..) SYDNEY, January' 5. The Bishop of Bathurst, commenting on prize fights, said Australia's I national prido should rise against the country being made a cockpit for coloured pugilists. LIQUOR BILL. A DEADLOCK. (Received January 5, 8.35 a.m.) BRISBANE, January 5. j The Legislative Council considered the deadlock in the Assembly oyer) the Sunday closing and local option 1 clauses in the Liquor Bill and decided to 'insist on the amendments, excepting the recommendation that the local option majority be reduced from , one-third to one-fourth. ROWDY RECEPTION. (Received January 5, 8,5 a.m.) CONSTANTINOPLE, Jan. i. ' The new Cabinet received a rowdy reception in the Chamber. THE GERMAN ELECTIONS. GOVERNMENT'S ATTITUDE. (Received January 5, 10.30 a.m.) BERLIN, January 1. There is much .comment on (the Government's attitude in confining itself to advising the electors to vote against

it«? Socialists. The results of the first ballots aro eagerly awaited, as the -bargaining of the Government with various group? will thereafter begin, MORROOCO. THE RECENT CRISIS. (Received January 5, 10.40 a.m.) BERLIN, January 4. During the libel trial, Genzboten versus the Berlin Post, the editor of the latter stated that the pan-German League's resolution, Ith at Germany must negotiate -with France for Morocco's Atlantic seaboard, received Berr Kiderlin Wachter's (Minister of Foreign Affairs) approval beforehand. Also when the Panther was sent to Agadir, the Press Bureau inspired the newspapers to demand Western Morocco. SMUGGLING ARMS. STRINGENT _ PRECAU r nONS. (Received January 5, 8.5 a.m.) i CAIRO, January 4. Stringent precautions are being talc • en to prevent -the smuggling of arms into Tripoli. Posts have been established between Solium and Alexandria, and camel patrols at Bedouin. Trackers aro watching the .'and frontiers. A Turkish officer was captured yesterday iand sent back to Turkey. NEW ARMY CORPS. (Received January 5, 10.30 a.m.) ROME, January 4. Newspapers report that a new Italian army corps is being organised for CVrenaica. l