Australian Cables.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 15 December 1913, Page 3

Australian Cables.

-4 K LECTIIIC TELEGRAPH COPYRIG HT. [PEE PRESS ASSOCIATION.] ISLAND STEAMER WRECKED. (deceived This Da.y 9.5 a.m.) Sydney, This Day. J J urns, Philp and Company's island trading , steamer Muniara has been wrecked on Ebon Island in the Marshall Group. The , ciow were saved. . NEW SOUTH WALES ELECTIONS. So far out of seventy returns sixty-one electorates have voted for continuance and sixteen for reduction. There will be no immediate reconstruction. The State Cabinet will be reformed during the recess. Mr Wood, deputy Liberal Opposition Leader has been defeated. SMALLPOX. Two cases of smallpox have occurred during the week end. FIRE IN MELBOURNE. Melbourne, This Day. A lire causing , £10,000 damage, has taken place at Jirooks, Robinson and Company, glass merchants, South Melbourne. The roof of Scrit and Sons'' cool store caught alight, but the contents were not harmed. The caretaker's cottage was destroyed, and the occupants escaped in nigliWittire by climbing on to a shed and thence over a brick Avail. FROM THE MACQ DARBIES. Hobart, Tins Day. Arrived.—The Rachael Cohen from the Macquarries. She stops a day here. Before her departure from the Macquarries the Aurora arrived and took oft' Dr Mawson's party.