COMMONWEALTH CABLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 58, 10 March 1913, Page 6

COMMONWEALTH CABLES.

MR McGOWEN’S RETIREMENT : FORESHADOWED. Sydney, March 10. Tho Sydney Daily Telegraph says that it may authoritatively be stated that after the present Parliament Mr MeClmven not only will relinquish the Premiership, but will retire altogether from active political life. THE MAWSON EXPEDITION.

Melbourne, March 10Dr. Mawson, in a wireless to the Federal meteorologist, saythe climate of Adiele Land is probably the severest on earth, the average wind velocity being fifty miles an hour, south by east direct from the Pole, with deluges of snow. Wirelessing, Professor Masson, Dr. Mawson says: “I still hope to get away. If I remain for another year, I am certain to keep in wireless touch with Australia all being well.”

KATE SEILY DISCHARGED. Sydney, March 10. At the inquest on Seily, who was killed in a scuffle with his daughter on the occasion of his threatening the family’s lives, a verdict of accidental death was returned. Kate Seily, in a lengthy statement, which was largely a repetition of her Another’s evidence, said that father,' with a loaded gun in his hand, threatened to do for the lot of them. She replied: “Not while I’m here.” Her father threatened to blow her brains out, and she tried to take the gun which exploded. She had no idea it would go off and kill her father. Counsel for defence declared it was atrocious that a mere child should he arraigned on,a charge of wilful murder in face of the circumstances of the case. Even though in agony and despair, she had shot her fathen to save her mother, the world would look on her 'not as a murderess, hut as a heroine: There was an extraordinary scene when the verdict was announced, the crowd cheering when Kate was discharged,