GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 232, 19 February 1913, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES.

THE MTSSIXd SCHOONER. By Cable —Press Association—Copyright. Received 18. 0.50 p.m. Brisbane, February 18. In connection with the missing schooner Dancing Wave, the steamer loan Douglas reports finding a lifebuoy marked "Dancing Wave," off Cape Hertford. A quantity of timber was seen floating in the vicinity. HEAT IN NEW SOCTIT WALES. Sydney. February IS. A scorching nor'-wester brought tUe temperature to 100.5 in the sliiule. which is the second highest Februs; rereading since ISOC.

A CTRTOUS FIND. Sydney, February IS. While working in the deep leal at Emmaville. at a depth of lfi(> feet, the engineer found it boomerang in the •wash, coated with tin. When scraped it proved lo be as perfect as when made from the -olid hardwood. There was fifty feet of basalt above the wash. TIT.EIUTXftI'S CATTLE. Received IS, 11.20 p.m. London. February IS. The Board of Agriculture announces that on May 1 cows with tuberculosis of the udder, or giving tuberculosis milk, will be destroyed. The Treasury will refund local authorities half compensation for the quinquennium. THE NEW ZEALAND. London. February IS. The battleship New Zealand has left St. Vincent. ANOTHER EXPEDITION 7 . Received 10. 12.25 a.m. Paris. February 18. i M. .lules de Payer is organising an expedition, including two aeroplanes, te, [ explore North-Eastern Franz Josef Laud