VARIOUS CABLES

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10658, 13 June 1912, Page 5

VARIOUS CABLES

CABLE NEWS

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

THE BURGLAR EPIDEMIC. IN NEW SOUTH WALES. (Received Last Night, 5.5 o'clock.) SYDNEY, Juno 12. xlio I 1 resli l<ood 11 cl Icg Company's premises have been burglarised, and £IOO stolen. A burglar entered a house at Waverley, .a subunb of Sydney. The occu_ pamt fired at the intruder, who decamped. i A DAMAGED VESSEL. BEING TOWED TO SYDNEY. (Received Last Night, 5.5 o'clock.) SYDNEY, Juno 12. A .report has been received from Tweed Heads to tihe effect that the tug Bearer passed northwards early this morning, lowing the ' steamer Timaru, which sprung a leak a day or two ago. 'LOSS BY DROUGHT. AN ESTIMATE. . (Received July 12, 1 p.m.) SYDNEY, June 12. A pastoral expert estimates that five million sheep perished in New ■ South Wales during the drought just ended. Others will proha.bly succumb to weakness. This .represents a shortAge of 190,000 bales of wool, of the value of £2,280,000, to .which £870,000 has to be added for the loss of lambs. COAL AND OIL IN PAPUA. INFERIOR IN QUALITY. (Received June 12, 1 p.m.) SYDNEY, June 12. An expedition to the Kikoripurari coal .finds in .Papua reports that the seam is narrow and.of inferior quality. Owing to the natural features and other obstacles, the find is of little commercial value. Immense petroleum, deposits, with great posibilities, were discovered. BILLIARDS. REECE VISITS AUSTRALIA. (Received Last Night, .9.20 o'clock.li FREMANTLE, June 12. Reece, the English) ,billiard champion, 'was a passenger by the steamer Ophir, which arrived to-day.. After a. short stay in. Australia he will visit New Zealand. A BIT OF HUMOUR. BY THE FEDERAL PREMIER. (Received Last Night, 9.20 o'clock.) MELBOURNE, June 12. The Right Hon. A. Fisher, Prime Minister of the Commonwealth, states that his recent remarks are not to be taken as an announcement of the Federal policy. "It was .a rather , dull hit of 'humour on my part," said Mr Fisher. "I meant that \ if we don't aim high, we won't do anything 1 ." -AUSTRALIAN TURF. CLIQUES OF JOCKEYS. (Received Last Night, 9.20 o'clock.) MELBOURNE, June 12. A metropolitan paper declares that although thf* turf was never more prosperous thani at the present . it is doubtful if its morale were ever at a lower ebb.,

"There may be no jockeys' rings,"' says the paper, "but cliques of riders are in collusion with eacli other, and it is suspected that occasionally owners are 'taken down' by theni."