MISCELLANEOUS CABLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 82, 29 November 1912, Page 8

MISCELLANEOUS CABLES.

(By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (United Press Association.)

London, November 27. Ten persons were killed in a gale in Scotland by flying debris. There is heavy snow in Lancashire and North Wales. The damage estimated to have been done at Rosyth dockyard, where cranes and buildings were levelled to the ground, amounted to £7OOO. London, November 27. Albert Bowes, a chafl'eur, fired three times at Mr Henry, Commissioner of police, outside his Kensington residence. Henry was wounded in the groin, and his condition is serious. His assailant, who was arrested, had recently applied for a license to drive a taxi-cab, and this had been refused Hobart, November 28. A wireless message says that the Aurora has left the Macquarries, and is due here on December 15. She afterwards returns to bring back the expedition. An important disc oven was made during the voyage down, tending to confirm the theory that formerly there was land connection between Tasmania and Antarctica. When two hundred miles south, sounding! showed a rocky ridge at a depth o! 700 Lathams, extending almost due north and south. The present, chart! show 1500 to 2000 fathoms in thi: area. Possibly Captain Diedrichsen the Norwegian whaler at present* ii New Zealand, will superintend tin Aurora’s whaling operations. Melbourne, November 28. The Mount Lyell Company’s halfyearly report shows- a net profit oi £100,719. The credit balance to pro fit and loss account is £550,563. The purchase of the Comstock property has been completed at a total cost ol £18,176. Referring to the North Lyell disaster, the report says that nr estimate is possible of the probable financial loss, which was entirely uninsured.- The occurrence was serious having been regarded as an imposei bility.

At the Broken Hill Block Tin Co, half-yearly meeting it was stated that Including a dividend of 2-s, payabh next month, the total paid in dividends was £1,280,000 Sydney, November 28. The widow of Mr J. H. Davies, re presentative of Kerr Brothers in t,u New Hebrides, has arrived. She alleges that her husband was murdered Davies left Tonga in company with two natives, for the purpose of recruiting on the island of Epi. Dur.ng the da\ the natives returned and reported that Davies was dead. A' search part} found him dying, with large wound; iii the back of his head. He was ap parently attacked while resting, but there is nothing to show by whom. T in widow complains of the want of a proper enquiry into his death. The death certificate ascribes his decease to over-exertion.

Paris, November 28

Extraordinary scenes have occurred at Nanvy. Blion, a brigadier of tin gendarmerie, who has been arrested believing a telegram was an order tc mobolise, opened sealed instructions The church bells were rung and. tin town cr’er roused.' Five thousand men left their beds, and posters wen nastily pasted on the walls summoning all between 25 and 45 years of age to join the colours. The reservists left weeping wives and hastened to headquarters. It was five- lioun before the error was discovered. Meanwhile military telegraphists took possession of the post offices. Sections: marched to protect the. railways, and patrols hastened to the frontiers. Kalgoorlie, November 28.

Three tons of ore from new leases it Mulgabbe, fifteen miles north of

Kurnalpi, yielded 534 ounces of gold Another parcel of a: ton and a hull yielded 89 ounces. (Received 8.20 a.m.) ' London, November 28. The Morning Post -advocates a teaching colonial university in London or lines of the German Colonial Schools where lectures on colonial administration, law, geography, politics and commerce resources are delivered. Tin paper suggests the Imperial Colonial Institute co-operating in the object. Mr Sidney Law, lecturing at the_ British Academy, advocated on similai lines and suggested that the Governments of the Dominions should conoid bate part of the initial cost. Tile Daily Mail states that France lias sent a cruiser to Muscat to put pressure upon the Sultan Oman who : s stopping gun-running at Britain’s rcqpest. Britain is sending a cruiser from China. (Received 9.10 a.m.) Under cover of an old treaty, several French firms are defying the Sul tan’s wishes and have developed a lucrative trade in guns with the Indian north-west frontier via Muscat. (Received 11.15 a.m.) Vancouver, November 28. The Australians Avere given a great send-off. They expressed delight at the success of the tour. They played fifteen matches and Avon involve. The vsitors thought British Columbia Avas the most difficult, team. New York, November 28. After Oliver Kirk lias had the lead of s'x rounds in a scheduled eightround fight at St. Louis, Abe Attell stopped the fight and announced that he Avas quitting the ring permanently.