COMMONWEALTH CABLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 55, 10 July 1913, Page 6

COMMONWEALTH CABLES.

AUSTRALIAN DEFENCE

[By Electric Telegraph—Copyright] [United Press Association.]

Sydney, July 10.

Important naval changes were announced to-day. The cruiser Challenger, which wont Home from Sydney, will be re-commissioned and return to New Zealand. Two cruisers of the County class will also he recommissioned for the New Zealand Station. The Psyche will he re-com-missioned at Sydney with a new crew next month, and the Pyramus will likewise join the New Zealand division. The Cambrian is expected to return to England in August.

POTATO BLIGHT

Brisbane, July 9

Many of the potato crops have Irish blight, and experts fear that most of the winter crop will he destroyed.

MURDERER ACQUITTED ON GROUNDS OF INSANITY.

(Received 8.40 a.m.) Perth, July 10,

William Duck has been acquitted on a charge of the murder of a four-year-old girl on the ground of his insanity, and has been sent to an asylum. He twice attempted suicide.

A REMARKABLE CASE

Melbourne, July 10. A remarkable case is recorded in connection with a man named llton, who was an inmate of the Austin hospital. For twenty-nine years lie was paralysed, being deaf, 'dumb, and blind, but ho has recovered all his faculties. He is aged seventy.

NORTH SHORE SYDNEY BRIDGE

(Received 9.55 a.m.) Sydney, July 10,

Mr Griffiths has announced that the Government has decided to defer the construction of the North Shore bridge on the ground that the matter is one of convenience and not a necessity.