GENERAL CABLEGRAMS.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1647, 14 January 1913, Page 7

GENERAL CABLEGRAMS.

By Telegraph—Press AaaoclaUoii-Oopyriilil

' '-HEAT IN MELBOURNE.

' ; Molbourne, January 13. Hot .weather is being experienced hero. The temperature was 100 degrees in the shade.. yesterday. The heat is accompanied' by ft northerly wind. . , •'"■ ' Later. -.'.> The thermometer stood at over 101 degrees to-day. There was a welcome cool change in, the afternoon. ' .<

\ SYDNEY MYSTERY.

Sydney, January 13. The unidentified. body found in the ■ harbour,on January 7'had a seaman's discharge in a ; pocket,'with the name "Edward 'Hibkey, I ''aped '27/ a native of Now Zealand. The document shows that Hickey was discharged from the steamer Maitarin Sydney on.March 7 last.

. ■''; FITZROY MURDER. •

■'.'.' Melbourne, January 13. In connection with the murder of Mr. Trotter, at Fitzroy, it is stated that the burglar who removed . the money from under the mattress did not speak once during the commission of the, crime. It is'supposed now that this person was a I woman,:

' LONDON TICKET FRAUDS.

London, January 12. Several of ft© Baker Street-Waterloo Tube railway employees implicated in the ticket frauds have been sentenced to short periods of imprisonment, and the others bound over, not to oommit further offences.- ■ .-.•■'

DISCOVERY' OF PETROLEUM.

London, January 12. Good'petroleum has been, found near Newark, near Nottingham, ■ ■ . SEACKLETON.'CASB. : London, January 12. F. R. ShaoMeton, brother of the explorer, remanded at Bond Street for alleged : conversion of J6IOOO trust moneys belonging to Miss Josephine Browne, waived extradition formalities. . Mr. Hiimphrey, who is prosecuting, stated that warrants had been issued; for other offences. '';.•'•/.■.■

ACCIDENT ON A STEAMER. \

: London. January 12. A fatal accident occurred at Southampton on board the Royal Mail Steam Pacltct Company's steamer Araguaya, 10,537 tons gross. A valve blew out, and two men were killed. Several others are in a precarious condition, and others are 6eriously injured. , '■'

:'.. AUSTRALIA'S NAVY.

I London, January 12. The Australian cruiser Melbourne, one of the three second-class cruisers of the Commonwealth naval unit, will undergo her final trials at Birkenhead on January 17/. sailing qu January 18. ■ Sho remains at Plymouth until January 28. .

I , FRANCE AND SOUTH AFRICA..

Paris, January 12. At the conclusion of the South African Rugby footballers' match ivith n French Bfteen, ,tho Government presented 55,000 francs - (w52262) to the French South African Committee as a contribution towards i Chair of French language and literature it Cape Town University. '

SEVEN MINERS KILLED.

St. Petßrsburn, January 12. • A cage fell in tho shaft of ; a mine at Ekotcrinoslav, South Russia. Seven men ivore killed and uyo injured.

' OIL STEAMER IN TROUBLE.

■." • . Suva,: January 12. The Leyland Shipping Company's steamer Ikala, 1322 tons, on a voyage to Pugct Sound, loft this port for Melbourne on January' 3, tut returned tolay'owing, to. a difficulty with her oil fuel. ;.

DISTANT EARTHQUAKES.

:>..■■ Sydnoy, January 18. Tho Rivorview 'Observatory seismographs.on Saturday night recorded «arthquale shocks during four hours; at < distance of 3200 miles.

. SPANISH POLITICS. ;

Madrid, January 12. Senor Maura, who resigned as a protest against 'King Alfonso accepting Senor Eoinane's assurance that his Government has a majority, has responded to the Conservatives' appeal and resumed tht leadership of the party in the Senate.