CONDENSED CABLE NEWS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10194, 22 March 1911, Page 3

CONDENSED CABLE NEWS.

United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.

Mr Batchelor proposes to provide funds for a properly organised scientific exploration of the unknown parts of Papua.

The South African cricketers departed from Adelaide for home yesterday. A large gathering assembled to hid them farewell.

During a heavy gale ten yachts at Brighton beach, Melbourne, sank after dragging their moorings. Several became wrecks or were badly damaged.

Mr Fisher, at the Sydney Town Hall, challenged the objectors to the Refenenda amendments to convene another conference and frame a new Federal Constitution.

Tho Federal Government is sending nine tons of Victorian products for exhibition at agricultural shows in Great Britain.

In reply to questions Mr Asquith and Mr Lewis Harcourt declined to be drawn into discussion Sir Joseph Wards Imperial Council scheme.

There were 25,000 people, mostly women, participating in the Social Democrats demonstration at Berlin in favour of female franchise.

Miss Vida Goldstein, a well-known Victorian, interviewed in London, said that the women of Australia approved of the militant methods adopted in England.

At the New South Wales Rugby League meeting, speakers . strongly urged that the gambling spirit should be kept out. The League was not afraid of professionalism of paying princely salaries, but it was afraid of the bookmaker creeping in. There was no need for gambling in a sport which stood on its own merits.

The Crown Law Department's action against Dayson Conwick Greenway, who was recently arrested in connection with the Great Chaffinch mine sensation, has been commenced at Perth. He is charged with .conspiring with others to affect by deceit the price of Chaffinch shares. Great interest is taken in the case and the Court was crowded! " • '

The Mt. Cuthbert, Queensland, bushrangers v are still busy. Several more hold-ups have occurred, including that of a mailman and some Chinamen. The latter was tied to' a tree in each case, only firearms and ammunition being taken from them, they being told that the police were after the bushrangers, and that the latter must have ammunition. The police are pursuing.

The second Englishman suspected in connection with the Hamburg espionage case disappeared. The police have stated that the arrested Englishman bribed shipbuilding workmen to furnish confidential information of certain types of warships. Two of the Germans arrested are workmen, and others are clerks.