COMMONWEALTH CABLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 38, 13 February 1913, Page 6

COMMONWEALTH CABLES.

BLOWN TO PIECES. (By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (United Press Association.) Brisbane, February 12. The enquiry into the Stecker incident showed that it was caused by a parcel of detonators and dynamite in a waggonette. A Brisbane cablegram, dated February 5, says: August Stecker, a travelling photographer, while camped near Noogoora, was blown to ments. It is supposed the cause was accidental. THE SUBSIDIARY CONFERENCE. London, February 12. Mr H. Samuel announces that his reply to the Commonwealth request for a subsidiary naval conference was despatched last week. ARMOR PLATE. London, February 12. The Admiralty is testing a Sheffield invention for increasing the resistance of armored plate while reducing the weight by 16 per cent. WRECK OF A STEAMER., London, February 12. The Spanish steamer Pauline has been wrecked at Wigtownshire. The captain and thirteen men are missing. AN ARAB RISING. Tripoli, February 12. The independent Arab Government in the Tripolitan hinterland has begun hostilities against the Italians with 4000 well-equipped soldiers. Two thousand have arrived before Zuaraad Jilat.