GENERAL CABLEGRAMS.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1661, 30 January 1913, Page 5

GENERAL CABLEGRAMS.

By Telegraph—Press Association-Copyright '■•" —■■"-. ■'? ■■-' '''■- NEW AEROPLANE. COMPANY. ' London, .Ta.i-.wv2S. Mr. S.. F. Cody, the aviator, is, Astm ine a company , with ii capital of .£120,000 to exploit his'aeroplanes. AUSTRALASIAN WOOL .TRADE. •'"•■■.'-'■;■ Lbridonj January, 2'. Mr. C. E. W. Dean read a. paper before'the Society of Arts.on tho of "The Wool Industry in. ihe British :Dbi»ihsons." The Hon. W. P. Ree>es presided, and ' among tho - speakers were the Hon. Thomas Mackenzie illiph f'emariissioner for New. Zealand);"'''ml:thivHon.' '■■$>. (South' T Atistralin)/ '" |, ,.'"':| CASE OF H.M.S. TORCH.' : ."->•-.-, .' l;, - London,.-Tanuary2B... V Mr. Winston. Churchill, First Lord of tho Admiralty, in a reply.to a question in Parliam?nt'by Major Archor-Shee; said that though the places used for close, confinement aboard H.M.S, Torch were well ventilated, their uso was :onU"..iy to the Navy regulations.

KAISER AND'PRINCE RECONCILED. , v \ ■'■ Berlin ( January 23. ' The newspapers announce that there has been a reconciliation between the Kaiser and the.Crown Prince. ; SEVENTY 'PERSONS DROWNED. ■ . RarigbonS January 2i A river launch foundered here, and severity persons were'drowned. . V BASUTO 'CHIEF DEAD. :. - Cape Town, January 28. Letsie, • the paramount chief of the Maseru district of Basutoland, is dead.. .SHIPPING COMBINE RUMOURS/ ■' Sydney; January 29. Mr. Gordon Wesche, superintendent in Australia for the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation.Company, says his company has no intention whatever of amalgamating with any other company. MEASLES. ON IMMIGRANT STEAMER. Fremantle, January 29. The steamer Gothic has arrived from London with MOO immigrants. There was an outbreak ■of measles on the voyage, and fivo children died. '.A. FATAL Fin E . .';. Launc.eston, January 29. The Royal Hotel at Latrob* has been destroyed by fire. Councillor John Roche perished in the flames. ,

'. . " GERMAN (WIRELESS SYSTEM; ' Berlin, January 29. The Postmaster-General stated in the Reichstag that Germany contemplated establishing a.wireless telegraphy system to East Africa, the German South Sea colonies, and Japan. '■•'■ AIR-CRAFT AND SUBMARINES. Paris, January 29. Naval experiments to tost the value 6f air-craft in locating submarines proved that an aeroplanist has no time to be able to warn .battleships. RIGHT OF STREET MEETINGS. ' "• , London, January 29. Lord Skerrington in the Edinburgh Court of Sessions ruled that magistrates were not empowered to prohibit public meetings in tho streets. . . ,; '. FACTORY BLOWN UP. . St, Petersburg, January 29. A dynamito explosion destroyed a copper ; works i at Elisabethypol, six persons being killed.

WHITE. SLAVE TRAFFIC. Brussels, January 29. Several white slave traders have been arrested on charges of having exported girls to South American republics. FIRE AT PERTH. Perth, January 29. Messrs. Povey's furniture factory -has been damaged by fire to the exte'nt of -£8000. The insurances amount to .€5500.