VARIOUS CABLES.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10549, 3 February 1912, Page 3

VARIOUS CABLES.

] (United Tress Association-*—By A7c«< j | ixic Telegraph—Copy-rujht. ■ j SPY CASE.. EXTRAORDINARY INTSFESI. NOT ONE OF THE UPPER TEN. (Received February 2, 8.35 a.m.) BERLIN, February 1. Extraordinary- interest is being j taken in Stewart's trial for attempted ! espionage. The president of the Court subject- > ed Stewart to a singular examination ' regarding his friends and means, suggesting that ho was a wealthy aristocrat. . Stewart denied that he wa« an. ember of the upper ten'-thousand, though lie was a nephew ox Lady Kensington, and his income was .-£2OOO a, year. When at Oxford ho belonged to the volunteers, and served in. South Africa, where he acted as a cavalry scout. He was not a spy, and did not ask his military superior's iea.vo to visit Germany. FURTHER EVIDENCE. • j MORE ARRESTS.' ! '! (Received February 2, 10.10 a.m.) ! I BERLIN, February 1. In the espionage trial, the prosecution alleges that Stewart inspected the battleships being -built at Weser and Hamburg, and obtained exact details of one of them. . J Four dockyard servants were afterwards arrested. • It was also alleged that compromising letters from highly-placed Brit--' ash officers were found in Stewairt's luggage. ■ ANOTHER CASE. EX-INSPECTOR SENTENCED. | (Received Fcbriiary2} 10.10 a.m.) , \ ■■.. BERLIN, .February 1. I] An ex-inspector of police, named i Reich, has been sentenced to eighteen months' imprisonment at -Essen for espionage. Schultz, a British merchant, who? was recently sentenced for. espionage, | was among the witnesses. | :; '>■ ' . MISFEASANCE, j HEAVY DAMAGES. AGAINST HORATIO BOTTOMLEY. ' (Received Febmary-,'2 } ' 8.35 a.m.) j I ■■<■ . a ■'; LONDON; February .1.- ; j In November last the Joinit Stock Trust and Finance Corporation summoned Mr Horatio Bottomley in the Chancery Court for £36,000 damages for alleged misfeasance. ! Bottomley has now been ordered to ' pay £36,773. * • Judge Eady declared that Bottomley was guilty of misfeasance and a breach of trust in transferring shares as fully paid,, on which nothing ,; had been paid. Out of 147,092 of these shares 115,242 had been sold! to his benefit. ANOTHER STRIKE. DAY LABOURERS ""GO OUT." INCREASE IN WAGES WANTED (Received February, 2, 8.35 a.m.) ' SYDNEY, February 2. j Two hundred day labourers, em-.' ployed by -fcEe Public- Works Depart- j - ment, 'have stnick for an increase in wages. •'■'.'.'.. VALUABLE ESTATE. }" r • ■ ' ■ ■ ••■..., AUSTRALIAN MILLIONAIBE. ..,- (Received February 2, 0.35 a. m.V-- . SYDNEY, February 2.: V Probate has been granted under the will of the late W. R: Hall. .... ; j; The -value of his New/South Wales i', estate has been sworn at £2,311,000. I

LONDON WOOL SALES., (Beoeived February 2, 8.35 a.m.) LONDON, February 1. ... The latest quotations at the wo-- 1 ! sales are: —Pouparas, top price, lid, average, 10£ d'; Tema/ta, 11 Jd and IOJd. SENSATIONAL.BOBBERY. I IN FRENCH RAILWAY STATIO v. j GENDAHMES MURDERED. (Received February 2, 12.5 p.m.) I : PARIS, Fobraaiy J. I Three burglars, with Browning pistols, were surprised .white' robbing tfhe gocds depot at lie Orleans station. They fi red on the railway men who attenpted to capture them, and jumped on a train which was just leaving for Paris. The«gendarmes tat AugerviUe; who were advised by telegraph, attempted to arrest /the miscreants,:. who killed one and wounded another. They then fled, except one, wiho remained until,'the train arrived, whew he blew out his brains in a telegraph office, where he was locked in. The inhabitants of Augerville chased the others,' and attempted to lynch them in revenge for, the gendarmes' murders. ,- One who was caught said foe was a Canadian named Oscar Wild. The gendarmes pursued the other to Etampes, where he committed suicide, crying "Hurrah for anarchy!'' PRISONERS IDENTIFIED, (Received February 2, 10.10 a.m.) j PARIS, February 1. The so-called "Wild," who was ar- J rested after getting into an Orleans-for-Paris train,, has been identified as Joseph Renard, who was associated

with those alleged to have boftn coneenied in the outrage at Mont Mar.tie, last month, when a bank messenger was shot and robbed. ! LABOUR EXCHANGES. EMPLOYMENT DURING 1911 (Received February '2, S.3sa.i>t) LONDON, February 1. During 1011 employers notified ".'.('A labour exchanges of 751,709 vacancies, and the exchanges filled 589,770 in addition to finding 125,300 odd jobs.

FOOTBALL. IN VITA T.I ON D BCLINED. (Received February 2, 10.10 a.m.) CAPETOWN, February 1. 1 Tho Rugby Football Board has declined the New Zealand and New South Wales invitation to seim a t.;ain to Australasia, owing to the shortness of the notice.

BOATS COLLIDE. DURING A BLIZZARD. EIGHT PERSONS DROWNED. (Received February 2, 10.10 a.m.) BERLIN, February 1. . A ferry boat collided with a cargo boat at Hanvbom, during a blizzard, and eight persons were drowned.