MISCELLANEOUS CABLEGRAMS

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 7078, 16 March 1910, Page 8

MISCELLANEOUS CABLEGRAMS

By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. FRENCH PENSIONS LIMIT. PARIS, March 14. The Senate has decided that only persons earning wages of less than £l2O annually shall be eligible for pensions. The Government had proposed that the limit shouM! be £l6O. SEDITION IN INDIA. CIAIiOUTTA, March 14. The Lieutenant-Governor of Bengal (Sir Edward Baker) has ordered' the confiscation of a quantity of waistcloths, the borders of which, are inscribed with a seditious Bengali poem. LONDON, March 14. At tihe Bow street Police Court today Vinsyak Savarkar, who was arrested in London on an extradition warrant, charging him with sedition in India, was remanded, bail being refused. He was a member of Gray's Inn (one of London's Inns of Court), and correspondent for Indian newspapers. CHINA AND THIBET. CALCUTTA, March 14. The interference of China atLhassa, the capital city of Thibet, was due to ITEe Dalai Lama sending envoys to St. Petersburg. China proposes to separate the ecclesiastical and political functions of the Lhassa Pontificate. WOOD FOR AEROPLANES. MELBOURNE, March 15. .-lie 'Department of External Affairs

has been advised from London that several Australian -woods are suitable for the manufacture of aeroplanes and that the demand for such woods is increasing enormously. HANDICAP SCULLING RACE. (Received March 16, 0.15 a.m.) SYDNEY, March 15. Following New Zealand's lead a number of leading supporters of scul-» ling lare promoting a >big handicap race, which will probably be held aM (the and of April or the beginning of May on the Parrama€la. MINOR ITEMS. Very heavy rain- is falling generally [over New South Wales. ! Lady Dudley passed Sunday night quietly, and is now reported to be progressing favourably. The Federal electors in Victoria number 703,699, the women exoeeding Ithe man by over 11,000. The police of London have stopped ■the customary weekly "whist drives'' which have been held in city restaurants on Saturday nights. Hundreds of players have in consequence been disappointed.