VARIOUS CABLES

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 1036, 17 August 1911, Page 5

VARIOUS CABLES

CABLENEWS United Press Association-—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.

THE STRANDED FIFESHIRE. ADDITIONAL PARTICULARS. (Receivod August 16, 9.40 a.m.) ADEN, August 16. The Fifeshire is lying on hard sand and coral in nineteen feet of water, broadside on to a. heavy swell. The holds are flooded, and the vessel is bumping heavily, and the prospect of salvage is not favourable. The vessel was stranded on the morning of the 9th inst, and was abandoned at noon on the lltli. Woods' boat lias not been seen since leaving at noon on the 10th inst. and CauMeld's was last seen at midnight oil the 11th, milc.s south of Guardiafui. The following are the names of the members of tho crew in the missing boatsAlvery, W. Brown, Ermen, Gannon, "Goodwin, Joyce, Maclean, McLeod, Moffatt, Spahrs, Spender, W. Stewart, H. Stewart, Waddington, Walters, and Wallace. THE "SPOOK" INTERVIEW. DISAVOWAL WHITTLED DOWN. (Received Last Niglit, 11 o'clock.) LONDON, August 16. The "Morning Post" declares that tfte Hon. A. Fisher's disavowal of the interview with Mr Stead has whittled down since he returned to Melbourne. This, it says, is unfortunate, as Mr Fisher left an impression in South Africa arid England that he sometimes speaks with two voices. TERRIBLE ACCIDENT. CHILDREN BLOWN TO FRAGMENTS. (Received Lost Night, 11 o'clock.) LONDON, August 16. Six children playing with a ship's rocket at Belfast dropped it on to the pavement. The explosion bkw three to fragments, aild a fourth is in a critical condition. A SEQUEL. V .0 THE CHAMPAGNE RIOTS. (Received Last Night, 11 o'clock.) PARIS, August 11. Six vine dressers from Marn.e were sentenced at Doiku to terms' of imprisonment ranging from oiio to forty-eight months for rioting. . Twenty-four were acquitted.