VARIOUS CABLES.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10531, 18 January 1912, Page 3

VARIOUS CABLES.

; disastrous fire. thousaxds of houses destroyed. (Received January 17, ii.ZO a.m.) TOKIO, January 16. Five thousand two knuulied and sixty-eight houses were detaiuroycd by a fire at Osako. Thirty thousand people are .homeless. MANY WOMEN PERISH. (Received January 17, 10.40 a.m.) TOKIO, January Ki. The firo originated in a houso of -illfame, the- whole quarter being consumed. Many women perished. "itho ildiw'is spread i-o tlic crowded workmen's quarto--. Soldi'.ers a:->..:-.-;tod the firemen in quc',!!i:ig ti'tc outbreak, which, was eouunlk'd <:i\: ;■ t- !i incurs' duration. ' OULLERA OUTRAGE. CVQV KITE'S REPRIEVE. (Received January 17, S.o a.m.) MADRID, January 16. Duquette collapsed when informed j of his reprieve. * There was publio rejoicing a.t CuJlera at the demolition of tiho scaffold for the garrotte. ~-,--, The Daily Telegraph's Madrid correspondent says that Kink Alfonso on ; being interviewed stated that ■ Saturday and Sunday Avere terrible days. Ho and the Queen could think of nothing except the wretched man in tJlie prison chapel pending his execution. Finally he decided to assume the re-, sponsibility of pardoning .the prisoner and .telephoned Signer Canelejtis, the Prime Minister, accordingly.

PRAIRIE TRAGEDY. WHOLE FAMILY SUFFOCATED. (Received January 17, 12 noon.) OTS4"WA, .January 16. At Yorkton, in Saskatchewan, on the eve of celebrating their gplclen wedding, Mr and Mrs Nicholl found the dead "bodies of their six grandchildren, and also of their daughterin4aw, all of whom had been asphyxiated in their homo in the prairies. Snow and ice Iliad chocked (the stovepipe, and all the inmates had been Killed by coal gas. The husband was absent m Winnipeg arranging for the wedding celebration of his" parents.

SHAM ATTEMPT. PRISONER'S CUNNING SCHEME. -.(Received January 77, 10.40 a.m.) BERLIN, January 16. Lieut. French, who was imprisoned in a fortress for apparently attempted to commit suicide. He was found banging in the fortress, by a warder, -who cut him down. He was unhurt. . . The authorities are convinced that. it was OiShhm attempt, French hopinc; ■to he transferred to iflie hospital with a view to escaping. ,

AUSTRALIA AND CANADA. TRAD* AGREEMENT WANTED. (Received January 17, noon) OTTAWA, January 16. According to the returns furnished to Parliament, Canada is desirous of reaching o trade agreement with Australia as soon as possible. In the course of correspondence between tttio two Governments, the Minister of Trade and Commerce agreed to grant Australia substantial preference in reforn for preference for Canadian articles of export, and also f p" entrance for articles of Canadian natural products. Tile offer also includes proposals for improved steamship communication. ■'•'

VOTES FOE WOMEN. A NATIONAL CALAMITY. (Received January 17, 8.5 a.m.) LONDON., January 16. Mr F. Smith, ■writing in The Times, states that votes for women would he a national calamity of the first magnitude. The Minister is- not inconsistent in advocating a referendum as tlhe Bill as not a party measure.

NATIONAL STRIKE

VOTING FOR AND AGAINST. (Received January 17, 8.5 a.m.) The Standard declares that 283,000 miners voted for a national strike, an 3 67,000 against the proposal. WAGES AGREEMENT. (Received January 17, 8.40 a.m.) LONDON, January 16. ' The Scottish Miners' Federation has the summoning of tihe Conciliation, Board to receive tflie miners' six months' notice of tlhe termination of the existing wages agreement.