CABLE BRIEFS.
H.M.S. NEW ZEALAND. (Received Last Night, 11.45 o'clock.)CAPETOWN, March 10. A party of officers of the battleship New Zealand visited LadysmithOtiher parties visited: Johannesburg and Bloemfontein,
RICH MINERAL DEPOSITS. (Received Last Night, 11.45 o'clock.) DELHI, March 10. Exteoisive deposits of iron, gokf, copper and coal have been found on the estate of the late Prince Mabmed Bukteur Shah, situated 150 miles fronx Calcutta. OPIUM CONGRESS. (Received Last Night, 11.45 o'clock.) PEKING, March 10. The National Opium Congress, recognising the hardship® inflicted upon the opium merchants by the provision suggested for tho purchase of their stocks, has decided to appeal to the Missionary bodies and Christian organisations of th 3 world to raise a fund for the purchase of the stocks at cost price, and to burn the opium at the Treaty ports.
PRISONERS RELEASED. (Received Last Night, 11.45 o'clock.) ST. PETERSBURG, March 10. 'Five hundred and thirty-three prisoners have been released from Odessa, and 840 have had their sentences .reduced under an Imperial amnesty. FIGHTING IN SPAIN. (Received This Morning, 12.15 o'clock.J MADRID, March 10. Many fights 'between* the Monarchist and Republican parties occurred at. the municipal elections in the Basque province. A Magistrate and a number of others were injured. Several rioters were arested. The Civil Guard fired l on the crowd at Pedrodialdar, killing one and injuring two dangerously. EMPRESS RELEASED. (Received Last Niiglit, 11.45 o'clock.) ABISOBABA, March 10. The Empress Taitu, King Menelik's Consort, .has been released after having been imprisoned in the Palace for three years. MOTOR THIEVES. (Received Last Night, 10.45 o'clock.) PARIS, March 10. The police arrested a. gang of seven bicycle and motor thieves, who have been operating for the past two years. All are youths, the leader being only nineteen years of age. OUTRAGE IN PERSIA. (Received Last Ni?ht. 11.45- o'clock.) TEHERAN, March 10. Tt is believed that the attack mad© en M. Constant, the Belgian Director of Customs, was due to the personnT animosity of a servant whom he had dismissed.-
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 11 March 1913, Page 5
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