CABLE BREVITIES.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1965, 23 January 1914, Page 7

CABLE BREVITIES.

By Telegraph-Press AssoeifctSoa-CopyMslit London, January 19, . Tho Admiralty has ordered threo For* lanins dirigibles. Melbourne, January 30, Victoria's imports for 1913 totalled £-24,441,000, a decrease , of £64Q,i15. Exports amounted to £17,819,000, a decrease of £1,294,000 as compared with 1912. Sydney, January 21. Sculling at Ll,ko Albert, >Vagga Wngga, before a large nttendand', and in fiootl weatlicr, Hannen easily beat PricSdle, £100 aside. Felton beat Fletcher. London, January 21. The leading newspapers hope that the National Sportiiiß Club will not «n----ceiirase Johnson and La.ilgford to fight, owing to tho public disapproval of Johnson. ■. ■ . London, January 20. The London "Sportsman" advocates a moderate limitation of Gray's losing hazard stroke, but "Sporting Life" opposes such a restriction. London, January 20. Australia's first submarino has leftnarrow for Portsmouth. Lieutenant Uesant is in command. Tiio second submarine wil'. be ready in ft fo«- weeks. " Sydney, Jamiury 21. A man and three childron have eontraetpd smallpox at Singleton, the firßt case reported for l.vdays, a rogrettanlo happening, a« another day's immwnity would have made tin- State rlear. .-: Berlin, January 21. A man struck a woman accomplice in the face in a eate, Two American diamond merchants intervened, and a free fiidit ensued, during which tho woman stolo bags containing £10,000 worth of 1 gems. . Vienna, January 22. The "Rcichpnst" states that Turkish forces have.landed on Slitylone, in tho Aeanan ■ Sea (ono of the.hvo; islands handed over, to Greece'by v : . tho';> International AgrctmHit)-' : ■ : ..-■-.■■feV-V..-. ..-..: Pertli,;-January 21. '■:■!( llift. City Council line refused lo allow , niixodvbathisgt.i.ilj;tlio new municipal