VARIOUS CABLES.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10544, 29 January 1912, Page 3

VARIOUS CABLES.

j THE TRIPOLI WAR. | FRANCE AM) ITALY. DISPUTE SETTLED. (United Tress Association—3;/ fflertric Telegraph — Copyright.) (■Received January 27, 8 p.m.) PARIS, January '2-6. The dispxite between France and 'ltaly occasioned by the seizure of the French vessels has been settled. The principal Senatorial Committee ratified the Franco-German treaty by 16 votes to 2. M. Clemenceau voted against the ratification. OFFICIAL ANNOUNCEMENT. —__ (Received January '27, 12.4.3 p.m. ) PARIS, January 2G. It is officially announced that the Franco-Italian incident has been settled. The steamer Carthage will convey the Turkish "medical officers of the Manouba to Marseilles. THE GERMAN ELECTIONS. j SOCIALIST VICTORIES. j A SENSATION. (Received January 27, 9.-J0 a.m.) BERLIN, January 2b. ' The Socialist victory at Potsdam I was more notable because Herr Liebaieehit, vviho was the successful candi- j date, was recently imprisoned for IS imonths, owing to his anti-militarist' propaganda. The (municipal council at Solinger created a sensation by refusing to participate in t'he Kaiser's birthday rejoicings owing to the Socialist victories.

DOUBLE MURDER. MURDERER CONFESSES. (Received January 27, 9.40 a.m.) PARIS, January 26. Pierre Piern, a sweep, surrendered ito the police, and confessed that he bad murdered a igirl in her bedroom in the Montma'rte Hotel owing to jealousy. The police inspected Pienri's own rooms ini another lodging-house, and •discovered a second woman strang-. led, Pierri'professed to be astotmded at tthe discovery, but failed.to establish tan-alibi,- and later confessed to bptJi '.murders'. ■ .':'"•'''' AFFAIRS IN CHINA. AMSUNDEMSTANLfcINiG OLEAiRED.; (Received January 27, 1.5 (p.m.) j SHANGHAI, January 26. I Dr Sua Yat Sera, m a friendly mes-j sage to General Yuan ■• Shih Ka.i, clears up the misunderstanding. AMMUNITION FOR PEKJN. (Received January' 27, 11.5 a.m.) ST.. PETERSBURG, Friday. Twenty thousand rifles and five million rounds of ammunition from Germany passed through' Russia for Pekin. GENERAL MONYERO. j ... LYNCHED- BY POPULACE. ([Received January 27, 11.5 a.m.) QUITO, January 26. The rebel general, Pedro Monterb, recently a popular hero, who was j captured on the 22nd, was lynched ] by the angry populace at Guayaquil. His body was dragged through tho 'streets, and then beheaded and | burnt. ; DISESTABLISHMENT. MR CAMPAIGN. SUFFRAGETTES INTERRUPT. (Received January 27, S a.m.) LONDON, January 26. Mr McKenna has inaugurated a Welsih disestablishment campaign at Queen's Hall. He 'announced in -connection with, the subject that the existing life interests which the Government, "proposed to disendow, would extend to £IBI,OOO per annum, portion of which money was devoted to national purposes. The istiffragettes frequently interrupted him, and were expelled. 3 ~ , j NEW ZEALAND AND AUSTRALIA I DAILY TELEGRAPH'S VIEWS. ARE WE SELFISH? (Received January 27, 8.50 a.m.) SYDNEY, January 27. 'The Daily Telegraph, in a leader, says •t.b'at the people of New Zealand do not seem fired with the resolution of the Federal Labour Conference that negotiations for closer relations i&hould be imunedeiately opened. The paper banteringly odds that the New Zealanders' attitude suggests the ioiness of the worker who ivas offered an Irish rise m the shape of a reduction in wages. The dismal .and utter absenceof arty 'signs corTOborating Mr Fisher's forecast that New Zealand, /may join the Federation within a few years suggests that INew Zealand .are a people who selfishOy consider themselves first, and have lost the sense of what might be done for them .fund to them by the four-days-off Australia under Governments ibenificently bent on turning the federation into a class autocracy which shall be, a. law urito itself. ''ln their contemptuous indifference is it ingratitude these islanders display, or a sense of (humour ?"