VARIOUS CABLES.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8528, 5 September 1907, Page 5

VARIOUS CABLES.

ALLEGED CUSTOMS FRAUDS IN FRANCE. Received September 4, 8.42 a.m. PARIS, September 3. A Customs inspector in Paris and the senior partner of a firm of carriers and a clerk have been.arrested on charges of defrauding the Customs of from £30,000 to £40,000. REMISSION OF SENTENCES. Received September 4, !7-27 a.m. LONDON, September 3. The Home Secretary (the Right Hon. H. Gladstone) has liberated 3,300 minor offenders under the new remission <of sentences scheme, whereby well-behaved short term prisoners are liberated on serving five-sixths of their sentence.

THE "CRADLE CANNON." Received September 4, 7.27 a.m. LONDON, September 3. The Billiard Association has abolished the "cradle cannon." (From the spectacular point of view, as well as for business reasons, the "anchor" or "cradle" cannon has proved a failure in England. For the spectators it is monotonous to have to watch one player taking up all the time with the balls confined to a few square inches of the t3ble.) DIVING CHAMPIONSHIP. Received September 4, 9 a.m. LONDON, September 3. Harold Smyrk, won the diving championship of England, comprising plain and trick diving. MRS EDDY'S SANITY. Received September 4, 8.40 a.m. NEW YORK, September 3. The Masters in Lunacy found that Mrs Eddy is sane. Her estate, of the value of £200,000, is in the hands of trustees. Mrs Eddy's son declares that the trusteeship is satisfactory.

A MEAT BILL. Received September 4, 9.20 p.m. CAPETOWN, September 4. The Cape Parliament has passed a Meat Bill designed to prevent cold storage companies throttling the South African meat consumption.

A RUMOURED AGREEMENT. Received September 4,10.18 p.m. NEW YORK, September 4. The New York Sun hints that President Roosevelt has made some agreement with the Kaiser whereby the integrity of the Atlantic seaboard will be guaranteed by the German fleet during the absence of the American navy in the Pacific. The Sun remarks that President Roosevelt ought to inform the nation of the real object of this Titanic project, as no one believes that it is merely a battleship cruise. NORTH CUMBERLAND MINERS. Received September 4, 9.20 p.m. LONDON, September 4. The North Cumberland miners, by ] 6,230 votes to 3,613, have decided to join the National Miners' Federation.

TROUBLE WITH COLLIERY EMPLOYEES. Received September 4, 10.25 p.m. SYDNEY, September 4. Fifteen clippers-on and seventysix wheelers at the Pelawmain colliery, Newcaptle, were charged with leaving their employment without reasonable cause. The clippers-on were each fined £2 and costs, and the wheelers £3 and costs each. All the v,'heelers decided to go to gaol.