CABLE BREVITIES.
At Mr Asquith's request, the Admiralty, War_ Office, and Board of Trade are preparing reports on their views of the Channel tunnel scheme.
At Sydney, Woodruff was acquitted on a charge of attempting to murder his wife and son, on the. ground of insanity, but was ordered-to be detained in' an asylum.; :< '■'>■;:"''■ :':'':':"""^ ; ;^.\.
The Salisbury Museum _ has been /obbed of ' six valuable jade curios. Clever / plaster. of Paris imitations were substituted in the cases. The police have communicated with the New' Zealand Governinetit in tho event of the curios being sold in New Zealand.
As an Antwerp clergyman was re-i turning from the country, accompanied by.his mother and sister and her three children, he was misled, by the light of a passing;-car, and plunged-his own car into a ean'nl. The, clergyman was saved, but all.the others were drowned.
Fines amounting to £13,500, being £500 in each of 27, cases against the coal companies,in the celebrated Vend case, have been remitted (says a Melbourne message). The coal companies paid these, but the shipping companies who wero involved took the case to the Privy Council, who reversed Mr justice Isaacs s judgment.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXXIII, Issue 8725, 26 November 1913, Page 6
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