CABLE BRIEFS

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 25 February 1913, Page 5

CABLE BRIEFS

(Received Last Night, 10.50 o'clock.) MELBOURNE, February 24. Robert Alexander Meyer, theatrical manager, has secured a dissolution of marriage from his wife, whose suige name is Dorothy Kendall, on the grounds of misconduct. .Received Lust Night, 1155 o'clock.) BRISBANE, February 24. Work ha.s been stopped on the new railway from Cloncurry to Mount Cuthbert, the Department refusing a demand for higher wages. (Received Last Night, 11.55 o'clock.) SYDNEY, February 24. A Clothing Trades Federation, embracing the whole of the Commonwealth; has been formed. (Received Last Night, 1155 o'clock.) SYDNEY, February 24. A Lord Mavor'a minute, reviewing the position of the city finances, foreshadows increased taxation. (Received Last Night, 9.5 o'clock.) SYDNEY, February 21. A fire occurred at Summer Hill, a suburb of Sydney, causing £30,000 damage. Four shops, occupied by Hodgson and Smith, universal providers, and other buildings were destroyed, while several were damaged.

(Received Last Night. 9.5 o'clock.) SYDNEY, February 24. A cable received from the Underwriters' Association, states that the steamer Whakarua, en route for Australia and New Zealand, has arrived at Capetown from Surrey. Her cargo was considerably damaged by fire.