GENERAL CABLES.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 25 August 1913, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES.

SOMALILAND. (Received Last Night, 5.5 o'clock.) \ LONDON, August 23. . The Government has no intention of sending a punitive expedition to So'naJiland. POSTPONED. (Received Last Night 5.5 o'clock.) . LONDON, August 23. Rain has caused the postponement of the Daily Mail's sea-plane race.

SUCCUMBED. (Received Last Night 5.5 o'clock.) Vice-Admiral Von Wellenburg, who recently met with an accident, has succumbed to his injuries. ENGLISH HOP CROP. (Received Last Night, 5.5 o'clock.) LONDON, August 23. A preliminary estimate of the hop crop of the United Kingdo*n shows that it will.be from three to fourfifths that of last year.

MANLY FERRYMEN. (Received Last Night 5.6 o'clock.) SYDNEY, August 24. . . The threatened Manly ferry strike has not eventuated,. It is understood tha't the Union, leaders are opposed to precipitate 'action.

LAWN^TENNIS. (Received Last Night 5.5 o'clock.) LONDON, August 23. Dixon beat Doust in the semi-final in the Crinque Parts Championship, the score being, 6—o, 6— i.

FIFTY MEN KILLED. (Received August 23, 9.55 a.m.) DELHI, August' 22. It is reported that a cage in the Edgar shaft of the Mysore gold mine ■fell to the bottom, killing fifty men. L' BRITISH. RAILWAY TRAFFIC. LONDON, August 22. The number -of railway passengers b the United Kufgdom during 1912 decreased by 32,000,000 compared with 1811, owing to the coal strike and better omnibus services.

MARCONI COMPANY, LONDON, August 22. Mr at a meet-, ing of the Spreonjj.r Wireless Telegraphy Compafay, "said the company was shortly initiating cheaper communication with South America, -Europe, the United States, and oser parts. He hoped soon to give inter-; eating information regarding & new subsidiary company in Australia.

FATAL END. TO A MATCH. LONDON, August 22. Private Bashan, arrested for fatally knocking? 1 out Harry Price, the South s African boxer, at Liverpool, has been remanded on a charge of manslaughter.

MARGARINE AS BUTTER* \.

LONDON,'August 22. The Colonial Butter Committee, in conjunction with the selling agents, have formed a Butter-sellers' Protection Society to prevent the fraudulent sale of margarine as butter.