CABLE BRIEFS

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 10713, 14 January 1913, Page 5

CABLE BRIEFS

(Received Lfist Night, 11.2') o'clock.) I SYDNEY, January 13. An unidentified body was'found in the harbour on January <th. A seaman's discharge in the pocket contained the name of Edward Hickey. j aged 27, a native of New Zealand. It shows' that he was discharged, from {the steamer Maitai in Sydney on I March 7th last. j LONDON, January 12. There is a recruiting boom at Portsmouth, and recruits aro unusually ; plentiful elsewhere, owing to the im- ! proved conditions obtain a bio. under the recent sciieme of Sir (hurclnlf, First Lord of the Admiralty. i VIENNA. January 13. The Neue Frei Presse states that the War Office hi*; ordered seventy aeroplanes to be delivered by th© endi of February. LONDON. January 13. A. number of Liberals have circulated a memorial to the Risht Hon. !>• Lloyd George, urging a reduction m the duties on sugar, tea. and otlier foodstuffs. They urge the removal or reduction of the chit** i'.v order to | make Freetrade more secure. LONDON. January 13. Graetz. the German abator, exports to leave in October on his airship explorations of New Guinea, after a preliminary flight from Berlin to London. The airship will be manned by Germans and Englishmen, and will be fitted with six small machine guns, as a protection against natives. SYDNEY, January 13. Hie Eight Hon Andrew Fisher, Prime. Minister of the Commonwealth, stated that a joint subsidiai-y naval t conference has been arranged, at which Canada, New Zealand and Australia will be represented, regarding the defence of the Northern and Southern Pacific. Mr Fisher add°'l fl in+ - joint action in such defence bar! been the policy of hi-s party throughout.