VARIOUS CABLES.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10572, 1 March 1912, Page 3

VARIOUS CABLES.

j (United Press Association — 2y EUr* \ trie Telegraph — Copyright.; A MONK'S EXPLOITS. A HARDENED CHIMIN A],. • S ELF-OONFE6SED MUR DEIiEH. (Received February 29, 10 a.m.) ST. PETERSBURG, Feb. 28. lu October, 1910, the. Austrian police arrested ji monk named Macoch on a charge of murdering Iris cousin und eloping with the widow. He was aim cliarged with committing a jewellery robbery at Gzen.stochowa, Poland, in October, 1908. The trial is now proceeding „at Pctrikoff and there are a hundred witnesses. life chief Avitness is the fatJier -of Dama/.y Macoch whom, sifter the ■father's arrest, the Pope excommunicated. Macoch has confessed to having murdered ,his cousin, Yaclar Macoch, through whom he had sold the jewels. Fearing that his cousin- wcu'.cl divulge the plot, the prisoner murdered him, :iinid the body was subsequently found in a river. STRANGE COINCIDENCE. ROOF FALLS IN. FROM WEIGHT OF SNOW. (Received February 29, 11.5 a.m.) OTTAWA, February 2S. A heavy snowfall caused the coilapse of many buildings in the city. The wooden roof of the Forum skating rink fell in, imperilling twenty iskaters and several employees. The ownens of the skating rink bad just recovered a thousand sterling as damages from a newspaper which had alleged the structure was unsafe and ought to be condemned under civic by-Jaws.

TRIPOLITAN WAR. FURTHER FIGHTING. ' HEAVY TURKISH LOSSES. } (Received February 29, 10 a.m.) | ROME, February 28. | The Italians at Horns occupied the , Gerghcb Heights, losing eleven killed \ and eighty-two wounded. i The Turkish and Arab losses were : .heavy. A NEW CABLE. | SYDNEY TO AUCKLAND. j (Received February 29, 10.5 a.m.) j SYDNEY, February 29. I The Pacific Cable Board has 'accepted the tender of the.lndiarubber and ■ Guttapercha Telegraph Works Com- I pany to construct and lay a cable from ' the neighbourhood of Sydney (prob- ! ably Bondi) to Auckland; and also' to bring the Norfolk Island cable to ' Auckland instead of to Doubtless Bay. I If is expected that both contracts will be completed about Christmas time. THE BRISBANE STRIKE. AMICABLE SETTLEMENT. TERMS BEING ARRANGED. ■.■ (Received February 29, 9.15 a.m.) BRISBANE,' February 29. ! A delegate from the Sydney Wharf. Labourers' Union, .addressing a meeting, declared, lie was sent to try to arrange an amicable settlement. The waterside workers were prepared to open all tho ports in Australia if the employers would not vie- | timiso the strikers.

XrGHT SERVICE RESUMED. (Received February 29, 9.4.5 a.m.) BRISBANE, February 29. The tramways night service has been resumed. The police Jiave taken particular precautions agamsu molestation. JEALOUS NATIVES. MURDER OF "JIMMY." (Received February 29, 8.30 a.m.) PERTH, February 29. The police are investigating the murder of an aboriginal named "Jimmy" by three other natives. Tliey were jealous of Jimmy's attention to the gins, lured iiim to the bush and killed him with tomalu r uyks and .spears. Fin-ally, they dragged his body about tho camp.

SYNDICALISM. INTERNATIONAL STRIKE. FIGHT AGAINST CAPITALISTS. (Received February 29, 8.5 a.m.) LONDON, February 28;, The Aldershot handbill was a reprint from tho first number of the i monthly journal "Syndicalist," published as a successor to Tom Mann's pamphlets on syndicalism. The new journal's object is to prepare the way as rapidly as possible for a general strike of international

proportions. It fixes on 1913, a trade boom year, a.s ouo on which "to effectively resist the encroachment of capitalists." INCOME TAX. PROFITS MADE ABROAD. (Received February 29, 8.5 a.m.) LONDON, February 28. The Court of Appeal lias upheld the decision of tlio Income Tax Commissioners, in the case against the London, Liverpool and Globe Insurance Company, that the interest earned abroad, although not remitted to tlio head office, was taxable as profits of the Company. THE .COAL STRIKE. INCESSANT CONFERENCES. THE GOVERNMENT'S SCHEME. (Received February 29, 10.5 a.m.) . ]_ < LONDON, February 28. Thero have .been incessant confer- j ences, the Government doing its ' utmost to formulate a settlement. | The English owners, except Northumberland, are agreeable to accept the Government's scheme, including a minimum wage. The South Wales owners object, and the Scottish j owners are divided, i Thero is much speculation regarding the Government proposals, ranging from a "rush." Bill (being passed enacting as a minimum basis the owners' offer, to the temporary nationalisation of Welsh mines. Significance is attached to the Scottish delegates' action/ in instructing miners -in- districts where one day's notice is required, to Jay down their tool's to-morrow. The Miners' Federation! passed a resolution, that after the expiration of •■ Uib notices they would allow sufficient meii to attend to ventilation .aaid pumping and to feed tlio mine ponies. _ APPEAL TO THE MEN. DANGER. OF FLOODING THE MINE,?. (Received February 29, 10.5 a.m.) LONDON, February 28. Mr Macpherson, Chairman of the Mines and Drainage Commissioners, lias appealed to the miners not to allow themselves to be dragged 'at the heels of South -Wales when there is no disputo elsewhere. He adds that in the event of a majority" b¥ the' mines in ~ the-drainage area wiU be flooded be-. yond recovery.''''"""•" " .•'/'"■:.'• PROFESSOR GILRUTH. HAS FAITH IN THE NORTHERN TERRITORY. (Received February 29, 9.35 a.m.) SYDNEY, 'February 29. Professor Gilruth, Administrator of the Northern Territory, in an interview, said ho first intended to demonstrate what ..'•could ibe profitably produced in the Territory, and then secure the right kind of immigrants. He will spare no efforts to prove thattho White Australasia policy is sound and capable of full fruition. NEW SOUTH WALES ASSEMBLY. THE HOUSING BILL. AN ELABORATE SCHEME. j (Received February 29, 9.35 a.m.) I SYDNEY, February 29. 1 In the Assembly, Mr Dacey. moving the second reading of the Housing Bill, declared the scheme would cause j Jno great drain on the' labour market. For every tradesman required one would be brought from England to replace him. It was proposed to erect a garden [city, and offer the people a healthy i | life. No hotels would be allowed withlin the area. He considered it equally necessary that the Government should construct houses as railways. The scheme would cost half a million, and between eight and nine hundred houses would be erected. One of the Labour members came into collision with the Chair, and was removed from the Chamber. ! The second reading was carried.