VARIOUS CABLES

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10450, 16 October 1911, Page 5

VARIOUS CABLES

WRECK OF THE MACLEAy. DUE TO CARELESS- NAVIGATION Received This Morning, 12.40 o'clock SYiDNEY, October 15. At the inquest on the three bodies from tiie wrecked Macleay, the' Coroner's verdict was "Found drowned. 'ilhe Coroner added that the foundering of tlie vessel was caused by tie careless navigation of the Gliief Officer.

PANAMA EXPOSITION.

TURNING THE FIRST SOD. Received Tliis.Morning, 12.25 o'clock . SAN FRAOTSCO, Oct. 15. President Tafit turned the first sod of, the Panama Exposition, wQiioh is to be opened in 1915. He mentioned livt- the completion of the canal would double t'lie stmrgitJi. 0 f the United States Na,vy.

MOUNT LYELL.

ENGINE DRIVERS STILL AT WORK. (Received This Morning, 1 o'clock.) MELBOURNE, October 15. •Tlifr Mtiunt Lye]l engine drivers di i not come out on Saturday, as waf exported. They are awaiting the result of a secret bajliot of the- miners., who are divided as to the-expedi-ency 1 of calling out.

IJVrPORTANT MA>RITIME DECISION.

AFFECJXWt SHIPOWNERS. (Received La»t Night, 5.5 o'clock,) PARIS, October 14. Use Interiraitional Maritime Conference lias adopted the principle of fixing tfre sole responsibility mn shipowners' for officers' mistakes in l.nvigatroii, and joint responsibility oil the owners and charterers for officers' commercial mistakes.

A STRnttfrEDP BOAT.

THREE BODIES POUND. (Received Last Nig Jit, 5.5 o'clock.) r _ BRISBANE, Otobcer 14. " The dooomposed bodies of thiree' ycung men lm.ve been found at OapeBedford,_ where the missing boat Vnlda was. recently stranded.

A . FATAL COLLISION.

BETWEEN A GUTTER AND LAUNCH. (Received Last Nigjut, 5.5 o'clock.) NEW YORK, October 14. While returning from the reception t • President- a.t Ookland, a cutter containing the band of tire cruiser California collided with a launiJi in San Francisco Bay. Twenty-fiye were-. thrown. into the water,; and : one was drowned.

THF KAISER'S YACHT,

REPORTED TO HAVE FOUNDERED. (Received Last Niglit, 5.5 o'clock.)' BERiLIN, October 14. It is feared that the steamer "Nordsteni," formerly the -Kaiser's yacht -deteor 111. ' foundered between Gibraltar aaid Kiel. The vessel' carried' a .crew of twen-ty-eight.

THE dltke of connaught.

WELCOMED AND SWORN IN. (Received Last Night, 5.5 o'clock.) OTTAWA, October 14. The Duke of Conniaught was welcomed at Quebec, and sworn in as Governor-General of the Dominion of Canada.

C-HOMATION CADETS,

Bijx'UßN TO SYDNEY. (Received La,st Night, 5.5 o'clock.) SYDNEY, October 14. nine Cadets who took part in the Coronation festivities have returned from London. They were warmly welcomed on their arrival by the Pe-t-on-e at Nydia Bay.