VARIOUS CABLES.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10542, 26 January 1912, Page 3

VARIOUS CABLES.

(Uiiilcd Tress Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) RAID BY BANDITS. RICH HAUL; POLICE FIRED OX. (Received January 25, 9.40 a.m.) CAIRO, .January 24. Several armed bandits raidod •) ricn native contractor's house near Cairo, assaulting t-ho oocupiers and ato!e much money and jewellery. They fired on the mounted police, who replied till their anWunition whs exlnau.sted. The brigands escaped, but the police pursued lihoni, capturing three. The contractor as dead, and six m-nm-tes of the liou.se are in a precarious condition.

j THE WOOL MARKET. | GOOD PRICES. ' (-Received .January 25, 11.5 a.m.) LONDON, January 24. At the wool sales prices are "ell maiiiifcained. The Americans are operating jreely in crossbreds and are taking a few good merinos. IMMIGRATION ARRANGEMENTS LARGE TOTALS. (Received January 25, 11.5 a.m.) LONDON, January 21. The arrangements for emigration made by Mr Taverncr, the \ ictorian Agent-General, include 5200 additional berths during 1912 and 10,950 each, during 1913 and 1914 in the Millbum, Tyser, and Peninsula lines. This brings tJhe 1912 total to 14,000. Seven new boats will ibe utilised, •and of these five will be refrigerated to carry 100,000 sheep a piece. Five will be used exclusively by Victorian Emigrants, and Victoria is free to secure additional accommodation by the other lines.

THE NE TEMERE DECREE. PROTESTANT PROTEST. HOME RULE SYMPATHISERS. (Received January 2.5, 9.30 a.m.) SIDNEY, January 2-5. Tile resolutions carried at the annual convention of the Grand Federal Council of Protestant Defence Association included ia protest against the Ne Temere decree, and an expression of sympathy with the Unionists in Ireland in their endeavour to maintain civil and religious liberty by resisting the granting of Home Rule.

OLYMPIC GAMES. GOVERNMENT CONTRIBUTION. (Received January 25, 9.40 a.m.> MELBOURNE, January 25. . The Hon. A. Fisher, Prime Mir is ter, promised favourable consideration of the application for a' Government contribution towards sending a team of athletes to compete at the Olympic games. SWIMMING. THE ADELAIDE CARNIVAL. (Received January 2-5, 9i30 a.m.) ADELAIDE; January 25. At the Swimming Carnival the : 220 yds championship resulted — I Longworth I ! Hardwick 2 Findlay 3 Won by four yards, in 2min 33secs. The 100 yds breast-stroke was won by Findlay, of Western Australia, in 1 linin 17secs. > SWIMMING CONFERENCE. NEW ZEALAND'S APPLICATION. NOT APPROVED. . (Received Jantiaxy'2s, 10.30 a.m.) | ADELAIDE, January 25. I The Amateur S ( wimming Union conference adopted a tentative agreement with a currency to July next providing that all contracting parties to tho agreement must become affiliated to the Union before that date. A vote by mail will lie taken en the question of the alteration of the constitution. ' New Zealand's application to be allowed to become a party to the agreement with the proviso that the Dominion be permitted to send representatives to the Carnival only once in two years did not meet with approval and New Zealand will be informed that swimming representatives to the' carnival will be welcomed during the currency of the present agreement. Due notice will be given of .the date when the new agreement will be drawn up so that New Zealand may send a delegate to the conference.

SHIPPING AGREEMENT. WORK PROCEEDS. IMPROVED CONDITIONS. (Received January 25, 9 a.m.) SYDNEY, January 25. Tho actual terms of the agreement between the wiharf labourers and ship owners has not been divulged but it is understood to mean that all tho late friction on the inter-State wharves will cease, and work will proceed with the old swing. The agreement has still to be for-, mally signed and its currency' fixed. The men obtained Is 6d an hour foxday work, and 2s 3d for overtime — | practically deep sea. rates—and an eight hours' day. j Another point that it is understood j haa been gained is the total abolition of employment of permanent hands in discharging cargo from ships' holds, and the hours have also been regulated. LITHGOW STRIKERS. PRINCIPLES OF UNIONISM. (Received January 25, 9.50 a.m.) j SYDNEY, January'2s. ; The Lithgow Strikers' Defence Committee, replying to the mediator's comments, states thait the committee were not actuated by vengeance in. Asking for the dismissals, but were merely maintaining the principles of unionism. ' LABOUR UPHEAVAL. REFORMS SUGGESTED. (Received January 25, 11 a.m.) LONDON, January 25. Mr Ben Turner, presiding a.t the annual conference of the Labour Party, a.t Birmingham, said the upheaval of the labour world was joyous

to behold. The party's policy included a bjirgain with the Irish regarding the Osborne judgment. They would give Home Rule to Ireland in exchange for free rule for trade unions. Other reforms would be: Votes for all women, free education (from primary schools to university), an eight hours' day. no night work in factories, and ii municipal coal supply. THE TIUPOIATAN WAR. AUSTIUAX STEAMER HELD TP. (.Received January 25, 8.5 a.m.) PERLU ISLAND, Jan. 24. The Italians stopped the Austria.n Llovd .steamer Bregenz. (Perim island is situated in the Straits of Ba!>-el-Mandeb; between Arabia and Africa.) DOCTORS SATISFIED. (Received January 125, 11 a.m.) ROME, Janua r<- 2-1. The committee of doctors, who examined the Turkish prisoners who were taken from the French mailboats, are satisfied that they are 'bona 1 fide medical men. NATIVE REBELLION. J LOSS OF LIFE. TROOPS GALLED, t (Received January 25, 10.30 \.nO SYDNEY, January 25. The Thursday Island steamer Em pire, from Timinor, reports that the natives are in, rebellion. Eight Portuguese residents were killed in the fighting, which proceeded over a week. ' ' The cause of the outbreak is unknown. / The Empire brought official messages for transmission from Macao, asking for the assistance of three hundred troops and a cruiser. THE KING AND QUEEN. ARRIVE AT MALTA.' (Received January 25, 11 a.m.) MALTA, January 24. The steamer Medina, with the King and Queen aboard, has .arrived. The French squadron assisted in the welcome.

DAMAGES AWARDED AGAINST JACK JOHNSTON (Received January 25, 11 a.m.) LONDON, January 24, Albert Rowley was awarded £46 damages against Jack Johnson, tiio world ? s champion 'boxer, whose motor car smashed plaintiff's taxicab. SHIPPING REPORT. LARGE INCREASE. IN TONNAGE. (Received January. 25,.9 a.m.) SYDNEY, January 25, An official report doling--with shipping shows that the tonnage of vessels entering New South Wales ports in 1860 was under half a .million, while in 1910 the total -was nearly- six and a-half million tons. Since the federation trade has expanded enormously, the toonnage_of inward shipping, increasing bv 57 per cent., and-outward by 68 per cent.. Ht- —■—- •' • BUSH FIRES. 1 HEAVY LOSSES. | (Received' January 25, 9 a.m.) J , , SYDNEY, January 25. j Bush fires swespt a thousand aUi'es of the hill districts on the South C-oast. Farnnii's were severe lasers, much grass and hay erops beiiLg destroyed. AFFAIRS TN CHINA I - . ' j SERIOUS SITUATION. LACK OF TROOPS. ! (Received January 25, 9.35 a.m.) • LONDON, January 24. A correspondent writes that the force of two thousand foreign troops in Pekin is insufficient, and if the Europeans were seriously attacked, the result would be disastrous. The situation is very delicate, and the powers are reluctant to provok© air outbreak which might follow the roir.forcemeat of the Legation guards. DEMAND FOR FUNDS. 0: SHI PS TO BE SOLD. (Received January 25, 11 a.m.)\ PEKIN, January 24. In view of the shortness of funds, the Republican Minister of. War has demanded from the China Merchants an-! Steam Navigation Company 10.000,000 taels, otherwise their ships will be commandeered and sold. PERSIA'S SALVATION. MISTS WITH ENGLAND. (Received January 25, 5.5 a.fh.) PARIS, January 24. Mr Shaster has informed an American interviewer that Persia's salvation rests: with England, who alone is able to check the Russian encroachments.