CABLE BRIEFS

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 10713, 8 January 1913, Page 5

CABLE BRIEFS

(Received Last Night, 10.45 o'clock.) MELBOURNE, January 7.

The first wireless from Papua was received yesterday,. the LieutenantGovernor (Mr J. H. P. Murray) wishing, the Hon Mr Thomas the complit ment« of the season. PARIS, January C

By an explosion in the main eoii.denser of the battleship Massena, at Toulon eight seamen were killed. LONDON, January 6.

The Goal 'Conciliation Board, ha* raited miners wages in the federated area 5 per cent. The wages are nnw (50 per cent above th 4 standard. ?nd are the highest on record. ;-.»■

LONDON. January 7

The Rev P.Pennefather. in a letter to the Times, apropos of the postponement of legislation for mentally deficient children, calls .attention to the excellent results obtained in' New Zealand from a. compulsory system of education for afflict**! children-. SYDNEY. Januarv 7.

The entrie-s for the Dempster Han-<-'ican the Ne* r Zealand horses Bobrikoff, VaKcte, Ventura, Rovn? Scotch. Lady Medallist, loli, s>j\d Soatondnle.

Tn the Sydney. Cnp Midnight Sun, Royal Scotch and Lady Medallfst are engaged. : ;".'.,", ~ " LONDON, January ' A corresoondent in Sydney to the DaiJv Chronicle' regarding Mr Spencer'* report, asserting that the cost of living- in..England is much greater than in Sydney, says the report is grossly misleading and untrue, and constitutes cruelty to* intending emigrants. The correspondent quotes figure* to show that the cast of Jiving in Sydney, is continually rising. .-»