HOME AND FOREIGN NEWS

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 80, 4 December 1913, Page 6

HOME AND FOREIGN NEWS

m T Electric Telegraph—Copyright] [United PresT Association.]

Ablate Sydney message states that the military' authorities declare that the* Liverpool mob incident is overrated and cdnfined to a few companies ‘ of tfidb from’ the' northern- district. 4. number of Australian towns, including Broket Hill; are feeling the effects cf the protracted hot weather and ‘water fartiines are threatened. : H.M.S.‘ Philomel has sailed- from Sydhdv fot New Zealand. 'tJio-death of Mr• Roberts is stated to be a severe blow to the Labor Party whereof he" was’ a prominent member. A Barcelona message' states that Zelaya haA agreed to return to Barcelona after - transacting the business which brought: him to the United Eight men are entombed at Cripple Creek, Colorado, where the sides of the Golden Cycle mine caved in. Eugeh.o Tremblay, the W orld s ' Eight might'Wrestling Champion, failed to defeat Walter Miller, of St. PauPs, the welter weight champion, in a match at Winnipeg. Tremblay : lasted"'an hour and 18 minutes when he fell. \ m Alfred Shrubb defeated Henn St. 1 Ives (Frando) in the 10 miles race at Sydney Nova Scotia. Shrubb’s time was 51min 4secl - A Capetown IneSsage this afternoon states that the Marylebone C.C. declared their innings closed with 8 wickets for ,356 runs (Douglas 102 not out). 1 The Border .team, in their first innings, made 121 runs, and in the second innings 103 rims. Bush fires are reported to' be general in hi any .districts in South Wales, .causing severe damage to the farms around Dubbq and Junee. Some farms have been swept clean. A second-elas passenger named J. T. Ward died on board the “Malwa,” of smallpox, at Freinantle, just before the"shin’s arrival. . , A fire at Bradford (Yorks) has destroyed warehouses to the value of £60,000. Similar fires aggregate £400,000 damage incurred during the past eleven months.' • '“The World” states that King George and Queen Mary strongly disapprove of the Tango dance at balls. Captain Wildman Lushington, of the naval wing of the Flying Corps, -has been killed by his biplane sideslip'ping at Eastchurch. Capt. Fawcett, a passenger, escaped. (Received 2.0 p.m.) V „ Paris, December 2. The Government was defeated by 290 to 265. It advocated giving investors a promise .that the . new Rentes ‘(Government bonds) should bear immunity from taxation. M. Callaux and M. Jaures led the opposition. The President accepted the resignation of Cabinet. Washingtbh; Jiecember 2. ' The President, in a message to Congress, expressed the belief that Huerta’s, regimq was crumbling and there would be no peace in Mexico till Huerta resigned. He advocated selfgovernment for Hawaii and Porte Rico, •and urged another step towards the same object should be taken in the PhillipineSl .s ;