GENERAL CABLEGRAMS

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1413, 13 April 1912, Page 5

GENERAL CABLEGRAMS

By TelezrapU—Press Association—Oopyriciht ■ 9 WIRELESS LITIGATION. Melbourne, April 12. Mr. Justice Higgins lias granted an ortlor .to allow tlio Marconi . Company s wireless telegraph, expert to inspccfc tlio Federal wireless station. MISSING STEAMER REPORTED. London, April 11. Tho Admiralty has received advices from Bermuda' tliat tho German-Austra-lian steamer Augsburg, 4278 tons gross, which is overdue from New York to Natal with a cargo of oil, is drifting in latitude 3Gileg. north and BGdeg. west. Assistance lias been sent. AMERICAN COAL STRIKE. New York, April 11. There are bright prospects of a settlement of the anthracite coal strike. REPORTED MURDER- AT SEA. San Francisco, April 11. Tho American schooner Americana lias arrived from Australia. She reports. tlio murder of Captain Benson. A Japanese cook lias been arrested, charged with killing Captain Benson. It is alleged that a revolver wafl used. NORTHERN TERRITORY. Mclbourno, April 12. The report of tho Federal Expedition to tho Northern Territory stntcs that largo areas of well-watered ideal sheep country wero found between Anthony's Lagoon and Newcastle waters. DRUG HABIT IN SYDNEY. Sydnoy, April 11. Before the Pure Food Commission, a representative rf (lio Pharmaceutical Society eavo evidence regarding tho drug liabit. Tho use of drugs, he said, had increased in shocking proportions. He urged that drugs should bo supplied only on n doctor's certificate. COMMONWEALTH NAVY. Sydney, April 12. Tho State Government has completed arrangements to build the Commonwealth warships at the Fitzroy Docks. As soon as experts arrive from England tlio work will bo started. Tho dock, staff is to bo