CABLE BRIEFS

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 10713, 11 January 1913, Page 5

CABLE BRIEFS

(Received January 10, 11.15 a.m.) LISBON, January 9. Alfonso Costa has formed a Cabinet, in which Almeida has accepted a portfolio. Most of the democrats among Almeida's followers and some, extremists will constitute the opposition. MELBOURNE, January 10. The Government is offering £ooo for information that will lead to the capture of the murderers of Trotter, who was ishot in the presence of his wife and robbed of £2OO. The murdered man's employers also offer £IOO. BERLIN, January 9. A Polish stable-hand named Buckow' murdered a farmer, 'his wife, and a servant girl and nailed up the- house to prevent the two daughters escaping. The police arrived when BucKow was burning the bodies in a haystack. Buckow escaped. SYDNEY, January 10. The wheat crops in portions of the Riverina district are the most prolific ever known. Forty-five bushels to the acre have been harvested in some places. LONDON. January 9. During experiments at Shloelmrvne&s the breach-block was blown out of a large gun, and Gunner Hubbard was killed and Captain Dreker and two others seriously injured. Mr Gubbins, chairman of f lie- Peruvian Amazon Company, continuing his evidence at the Putninavo Rubber Scandals Inquiry, said 30,000 Tndians were murdered in twelve months.