YESTERDAY'S CABLES.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10143, 20 January 1911, Page 6

YESTERDAY'S CABLES.

A 6ft seam of coal is reported tohave been discovered near Inverloch, Victoria. Reports indicate a serious spread of the Irish flight in the potato areas of Victoria. I'n connection with the statement ' of the man Miller, that:lie was tied. ( to a tree-in 'Paris', and: robbed-, it transpires that Miller was a mere hoaxer. He is 'not an American, his real, name being 'Rosenblum. He had been expelled from Germany and was living from hand to mouth. Sir Ernest Shackleton has cabled approving Dr Mawson's purely Australian . Antarctic expedition. Mr Samuel Hordern, of Sydney, has donated £IOOO to the fund, making £OOOO. Dr Mawson and Professor Massion interviewed Mr Pearce and asked for Government assistance to the expedition. They urged the value to Australia in the shape of possible mineral discoveries, sealing and fishing enterprises, as well as its scientific importance. Cabinet • consideration of the request. was j promised. ■■'',' j The submarine U3, which sank in Heikendorf Bay, has been raised. The two officers and the coxswain who gallantly remained . until the others wove safe, were found dead in the conning tower. All efforts to resuscitate them, failed. ■; Doctor,.; S.winderen, Minister of* Foreign Affairs, informed an interviewer that Venezuela had replied in unfavourable .terms to the protocol, for restoration of diplomatic , rela-* tions with Holland. , The Venezuelan Commissioner had thereupon resigned, and left Holland. . ';■',.;' With a view of meeting all; objections to ,the Flushing 'fortifications ■ clause, the Government of Holland is modifying the, Defence Bill. , Tiie British Shale Transport. Oil, Company is negotiating forihe acquisition of the Gemsah. oilfield in Egypt, and intends to ereqt. a refinery at Suez kind lay a pipe from Gemsah to .Suez, and another east j of Suez. j The Defence Department of Victoria is purchasing 1228 horses for . .the purposei ; : of•■ e^iuppingV-'th*e\^Field..!, Artillery. " The' Times'. Berlin correspondent states that Herr Dallwitz, iii the Prussian Diet, replying to Socialist criticism of the action of the police at Moabit, argued that excesses were scarcely avoidable in street fighting. He emphasised the fact' that no use was made of the military at Moabit, in contrast with'.the. practice in other countries. ■ The Minister of War at Paraguay has assumed the , Presidency and forced the President and sident to resign. The Pope's gout troubles are only occasional. He has resumed granting audiences as usual. Eight men were killed and one injured in the explosion tke United States battleship Delaware. A steam pipe burst Avhile the vessel was bound to Hampton Roads. Wireless telegraphy announced the disaster to the Washington Navy Department. Details are not forthcoming. At the trial. in. Adelaide, of Edmondsou in connection, with the. ,Tantanoola sheep-stealing, a witness deposed that he was induced to join accused by a statement that he could make four or five pounds daily..Under a pretext of trapping ' rabbits, Edmondson shot sheep belonging to flocks in the vicinity. Witness skinned them,, and the skins were •consigned \m Adelaide. At other, times they' put up temporary yards and ran in and killed batches of sheep. This had been going on since August last. Dr Ingram, Bishop of London, in a letter to Dr Tristram, Chancellor | of his diocese, objects to the latter I issuing certain -marriage licenses in his own name. He instructs the 1 Chancellor that no licenses of mar-; iriage with a divorced person,. or of j a''person with -his'-deceased's wife's ] sister, is to be issued without... the

Bishop's personal• assent in writing. Mr E. Pethorick, of the Federal Government library, claims to have secured proof, after forty years of researches, that Australia was discovered by Amerigo Vespucci in 1499. The proof rests on the .result of a find made by the University professor at Cracow (Poland) —viz., the discovery of the shape of a little globe of date 1510, forming ;m ornamentation of a clock, o which had been hidden for fourteen hundred years, showing an outline of land south of India. Professor Estreicher, the discoverer of the globe, published a long paper in support of Vespucci's discovery. Mr Petherick's documentary and other "evidence supports this claim as a step towards solution if- it does not fully solve, perhaps the greatest enigma <i modern geographical discoverv.