COMMONWEALTH CABLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 19, 21 January 1913, Page 5

COMMONWEALTH CABLES.

WIRELESS LINKING-UP

Melbourne, January 20

France proposes to establish a wireless station at Noumea, linking China, South Africa and South America, and also with a view to uniting all the French possessions in the world. The station at Tahiti will connect with Martinique, with the Marquesas as an intermediary.

A DROWNING FATALITY

Sydney, January 20

Three brothers named Cunningham, eighteen to twenty-seven years old, were bathing at Goombargana. James got into difficulties and Alfred tried to assist him. Both were drowned. Charles, in an effort to help, was onl\ aide to save himself. None were good swimmers. VIA WIRELESS. A scheme for linking-up German New Guinea with Hongkong and' Australia by wireless is in progress. Stations will be completed in two months’ time at Rabboul, Yap, and Nauru. THE TERRITORIALS. Instructions have been issued thal Senior Cadets failing in 1911-12 tc comply with the Defence Act shall be confined to barracks and compelled tc complete their service, if they do not observe the order of the Court to make up the drills missed. A COMMONWEALTH BANK. An advertisement in the newspap ers announces that the Commonwealth Bank will be opened to-day. There arc to be branches at Sydney and Canberra, the Federal Capital. This is regarded in some quarters as letting ou; the secret of the name of the new city.

The Commonwealth Bank has started business at Adelaide, Melbourne, and Brisbane.

N.S.W. AGENT-GENERALSHIP

(Received 9.30 a.in.) Sydney, January 21

Mr. T. A. Coughlan, Agent-General has cables accepting a renewal of office for two years.

ON THE WATER FRONT,

The Harbour Trust has discharged a further fifty men, making a total of ■>so.

VISIT OF A WIND STORM

A wind stem at Singleton tore off tue verandahs of two houses, and unvoted several others, while branches of trees were knocked off. The storm passed along a narrow strip.

THE WILY CHINEE

Melbourne, January 21

An unknown Chinaman fete a dress m a basket at a Chinese laundry. The proprietor on examining the parcel found 125 tins of opium valued at £6Ub.