MISCELLANEOUS CABLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 73, 19 November 1912, Page 8

MISCELLANEOUS CABLES.

Rose, a civilian, injured through the gun explosion at Shoeburyness, lias succumbed. It is suggested that a new Zeppelin during a hours’ flight in the North Sea in October passed over Sheerness, thus causing the scare. The Telegraph, explaining the nonfulfilment of Mr Churchill’s pledge to increase bluejackets’ pay, states that the money needed lias keen allocated to pay the increased medical remuneration under the Insurance Act. 'An ex-gunnor of the British Navy has been arrested for conveying secrets to a foreign Power. Three men seized Goldberg, a Hatton Garden diamond dealer, near his residence at Hackney, and stole £I3OO worth of diamonds and escaped. Replying in the New South Wales Assembly, Mr McGowen said that he was unable to promise to pass legislation this session restricting the sale of lysol. The Telegraph says that a steamer 'combine is being formed, embracing the British-India, Cunard, Furness, Kithy, Peninsular and Oriental and Royal Mail Packet linos. Alimer Mukhtar, the Nationalist who was arrested in August with revolutionist placards, violently appealing to the Egyptians to rise against the British occupation of Alexandria, has been sentenced to ten years’ imprisonment. ’Pile Joseph Craig, from Kaipara, with a. cargo of timber, while heating ii]) the south channel at the Heads for Melbourne, missed stays ami drove ashore a little west of the cattle jetty. A tug is standing hy. The barque is on a sandy bottom, and her pnsiti m is not dangerous. It is expected that she will be got off soon.