VARIOUS CABLES

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10602, 8 April 1912, Page 5

VARIOUS CABLES

CABLENEWS

(United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.)

FELTON BEATS FOCWELL. (Received Last Night, 5.5' o'clock.) SYjCNEY, A>ril 6. Felton defeated Fcgwell by two and a half lengtLte in a sculling race on the Grafton. The time given— 17 mans. 2Cisecs..—is queried.

THE UNIOR~feOIVIPANY. A REPORT DENIED. (Received Last Night, 5.5 o'clock.) SYDNEY, April 6. . The manager cf the P. and O. Company denies the report that his firm is about to absorb the Union Steamship Company. FATAL DUEL. DEATH OF BOTIrFcOMBATANTS. MUNICIPAL ELECTION THE CAUSE. . (Received Last Night, 5.5 o'clock.) PARIS, April 6. '; Two Gorsicans were, killed at Ajaccio through duelling over ■ the municipal elections. JEWEL ROBBERY. £IO,OOO WORTH TAKEN. (Received Last iVght, 5.5 o'clock.)

PARIS, April 6. Jewels valued at £lo,ooo' were stolen from tho residence of M. Dernier, ex-Mexican Minister to France. NARROW ESCAPE. FROM BURNING BUILDING. RETRIEVER SAVES A FAMILY. (Received Last Night, o.s*~o'clock.) LONDON, April 6. Mr P. H. Ulingwonth, M.P., with his wife, children and servants, escaped in their night attire from a newly-rented Elizabethan mansion on a lake in Wiltshire. . The burning roof collapsed twenty minutes after their, escape .by the lia0«; staircase, which was the only exit. Mr Mingworth had meanwhile rescued from, an upper window..... a retriever wiliose bhrking had wived the houseihold.

CYCLING.

AUSTRALASIAN RECORD BROKEN. (Received Last Night, 5.5 o'clock.') SYDNEY, April 6. Clarke beat Goui'let in tl%. Mile ■ Race. _ t ■ Tn the I'iiteniational Teams Rice,/ Lawson and G rend a .won, the ,| two out of three events', defeating 'Qfarke and ac'mvniarla, andLehir ■ Jand Ciouliet. Sfiejppartl paced. three mile*; in 4 f ; iiiin. 36 2-£secs., an ■■Australasian record. I'lle five-Jiiilcs scratch race was won by GouUef, w it'll Lchir second and Dixon third. LITHQOW IRONWORKS. BALLOT TO BE TAKEN. (Received April 6, 8 a.m.) SYDNEY, April 6. | At an aggregate meeting of the Lithjiow miners to consider the resumption of work, there was a section uroiigiy apainst refiumuip; until the two mi'ists were removed.-from the works. A ballot will he taken. BRITAIN AND PERSIA. THE WOUNDING OF Mill SMART. (Received April 6, 11.$0 a.m.) TEiHBRiAN, April 5. Great Britain in suits on the'arrestof. the real authors of the attack on Mr Smart instciad of scapegoats, as a'condition c-f the withdrawal of additional troops. "(In December last, Mr W. • A. Smart", the British consul at Shiraz, was wounded in a severe fiftfht while Wa veiling from Busliire to SMraz.)

GERMANY'S DEFENCE BORDERS. TALK OF TAXING CATS. (Received April 6, 11.30 a.m.) LONDON, April 5. , ■ The Standard's Berlin correspondent reports tluat Herr yon Bethmann Bollweg, Imperial Chancellor, is studying t(he qiiestion of taxing cats in connection with the new defence burdens. . DYNAMITE EXPLOSION. TWO MEN KILLED AND FIFTEEN INJURED. ' (Received -April 6, 1.1.30 a.m.) Two persons were killed and fifteen ! injured through an explosion of dynamite .at Nobel'.s factory at Avigliana, I Piedmont. JAPANESE CRIMINALS. A QUEER PROPOSAL. (Received April 6, 11.30 a.m.) •A: private Bill lias, been introdiiced in the Japanese Diet to iwrmit crimiiiol,s* sentenced to dcatli to commit suicide.