VARIOUS CABLES

Evening Post, Volume LXXXV, Issue 29, 4 February 1913, Page 7

VARIOUS CABLES

By Telegraph.— Press Association.— Copyright. (Received February 4, 10.15 a.m.) SCHOONER MISSIS. BRISBANE, This Day. The schooner Dancing Wave is missing. \ (Received February 4, 10.15 a.m.) PUBLIC SERVICE RECLABSIFICATION. MELBOURNE, This Day. The Victoria Public Service Reclassification adds between £25,000 and £30,000 to salaries yearly. GERMAN CRUISER REFLOATED. BERLIN, Ist February. The third-class cruiser Augsburg, a vessel of 4280 tons displacement, built in 1909, was driven ashore at Sonderberg, but has been refloated. SHIPPING COMPETITION. VIENNA, 3rd February. The Austro-American Steamship Company, which ie financed mainly l>y the Deutsche Bank, announces that it will commence monthly sailings in March from Trieste to St. John's, Nova Scotia, in winter, and to Montreal in summer. , [It was recently stated that a shipping war was probable because of the entry of the Canadian-Pacific line into the emigration traffic between Trieste and Canada.] DOCTORS' PANELS. LONDON," 3rd February, v There are now 1163 doctors in the London insurance panels. ELOPEMENT FRUSTRATED. LONDON, 3rd February. A Lowestoft man boarded the Kinui at Plymouth, and discovered his wife with two children in the second-class with her lover. She reluctantly abandoned her elopement on being told that she would be deported when she reached Australia. A HUGE FINE. PARIS, 3rd February. A wholesale spirit merchant, formerly Mayor of Montmoreau, has been fined £60,000 for offences under the excise law. FATAL RESULT OF STREET SQUABBLE. SYDNEY, 3rd February. Thomas James Dibley aged eighteen, a dealer and professional boxer, is dead. His skull was fractured and his brain lacerated in a street squabble on 24th January. James Maher, aged nineteen, a labourer, has been charged with the manslaughter of Dibley.