VARIOUS CABLES

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10654, 8 June 1912, Page 5

VARIOUS CABLES

CABLE NEWS

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

A PLAY -CEK3O::Z2> (Received Jniie /. .. J SYDNEY, June 7. The Chief 'Sror&tary objected to an incident in, the iplay ait the Adciphi 'Theatre, "Brought to Ruin," where a .child id supposed to be asphyxiated iwitli a itowel. George Marlowe's management state that the play was read Iby the iOeansor in England, passed by tlie Lord Chamlberlain, and produced tetmisive'ly there. SOUTH WAuES MINERS. (Received June 7, 9 a.m.) LONDON, June G. The income for 1911 -of the South ■Wales Miners' Federation' was £312,'491. There was expended om strikes and lock-outs £213,687. A LOVE TRAGEDY. (Received June 7, 11 a.m.) LONDON, June 6. Mi-sis 'Kitty Melrose, an actress at (the Adelphi Theatre, committed suicide through- a love affair with Lawson Johnson-, of Addington l Manor, Bucks. Pathetic correspondence was produced -at the inquest, showing that Johnson's family objected to the marriage. NEW STEAMER. ' (Received' June 6, 10 a.m.) LONDON, J into 6, A new steamer for the Ulawari'il and South Coast- Steam Navigation Company, Ltd., has been launched at Troon. TREATMENT OF TETANUS. (Received June 7, 9.35 a.m.) SYDNEY, June 7. A Dubbo doctor has successfully used the ilatcst phen'ol treatment for tetanus in- the case cf two boys. LOCOMOTIVES FOR VICTORIA. (Received June 7, 9.35 a.m.) ' : MELBOURNE, June 7. • The Government lias accepted tlie tender of the Austral-Otis Engineering Company for forty locomotives, the contract, price being £IBO,OOO. WIRELESS MESSACES. (Received June 7, 9.35 a.m.) MELBOURNE, June 7. Tlie minimum irate for wireless messages of three word® is 2s 6d, iplufe land changes. It, was,,previously 8s 4d. MISSING KOOMBANA. (Received June 7, 9.35 a.m.) LONDON, June 6. S'r Newton- Moore, Agent-General fo. Western Australia, has opened a •fund for the relatives of those /who. we.ro on the Adelaide Steam Ship Company's Koombana, which, disappeared in March last during a storm, and which is supposed to have- foundered in the vicinity of Redoubt Island, .about sixty; miles. : distant from Port Hedland. . CHURCH OF ENGLAND POWERS^ {Received June /, 10 a.m.) i BRISBANE, June 7. Tlie Anglican. Diocesan Synod rejected, by 88 votes to 63, a motion, the effect of which was to give the Clrarcli of England in, Australia powers rto leg- | islate for itself.

ENGLISH JOCKEYS. ; (Received June 7, 9.35 a.m.) ' LONDON, June 6. Tod Sloan, the American jock'ey, who some years ago rode with successin England, commenting on the American jockey Rleiff's Derby victory, said English jockey ship was a disgrace to any country. ;Eight out of the twenty jockeys engaged in the Derby were either American, French or colonial. The riding of -En-glisli boys dis,,played neither skffll or nerve.