COMMONWEALTH CABLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 10, 12 September 1913, Page 3

COMMONWEALTH CABLES.

A STABBING AFFRAY

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

Adelaide, September 11

In reference to the stabbing affray on the Australian, the boatswain, Bieseler, remonstrated that a man struck him with a bottle. It is now stated that .this man and not Bieseler fatally stabbed Richter when he entered the forecastle. Subsequently a fireman named Sehiebak staggered out of the forecastle with a self-in-flicted wound in the throat. The statement that Bieseler was responsible for the stabbing is incorrect. NORFOLK ISLAND.

(Received 9.55 a.m.) Melbourne, September 12. The House read a first time a Bill} authorising the Commonwealth to accept Norfolk Island. COCKATOO ISLAND DOCK.

An expert, reporting on the Cockatoo Island dock, said the plant was in such condition that it might lead to a complete breakdown at any time. The power plant was . almost wholly obsolete and worn out,the cost of rendering it efficient being £41,950. PAPUAN EXPEDITION SAFE. Judge Murray has wirelessed news of the safe return of the MasseyBaker expedition, which wass exploring Papua near the Fly and Strickland Rivers.