AUSTRALIAN CABLES.

Auckland Star, Volume XLI, Issue 166, 15 July 1910, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN CABLES.

AFTER A DRINKING... BOUT. (Received-9.50 aLm.)-" A 1" MELBOURNE, this day. Demetrius Morfesse, a Greek labourer, living at Kilmore, after a drinking bout, attacked his wife with an axe and then cut his own throat. Both are in a critical condition. INCENDIARISM IN THE CANE- --- FIELDS.-— \r.-."_ T". (Received -9.55 ajn.) BRISBANE, this day. Fifteen fires have, been, .discovered in the canefields at Mosman. Partly, burnt candles were found, and -incendiarism is suspected. The damage is slight. TRANSPORT OF PRODUCE. SYDNEY, July 14. At .the Farmers' Conference to-dayj Mr. John Harper, one of the ■ TaiVWay commissioners, complained that farmers showed no. disposition to.move the.'milßon and a-half bags of wheat now stacked in the country. Unless it was soon moved there would be sure to be a heavy loss, as the approaching wool season-would absorb all the available trucks.BARQUE IN DISTRESS. SYDNEY, July 14. The French barque Mezly, bound from Sunderland to San Francisco, via -Hobart, has arrived in a crippled-conditions She struck a series of gales off- the New Zealand coast on July I, her foremast being carried away, and the captain decided to make for Sydney for repairs. LAMBING PERCENTAGE. SYDNEY, July 14. The official figures of the autumn lambing show that on December 1 there were 21,410,000 ewes in the State. Of these 12,860,620 were used for lambing, and the lambs born totalled 10,241,200, an average of 80 per cent." Owing to the bad weather and the ravages of blowflies the probable marking wUI reach only 8,324,200, or 65 per cent. FORGED COUPONS. SYDNEY, July 14. In connection with the Co-operative Coupon Company frauds, Hume, a printer, and Flynn, a grocer, have "been committed for trial on a charge; of forging coupons; and Hume, Flynn, and Taylor, a commercial traveUer, for uttering forged coupons. INTERNATIONAL EIGHT-OAR RACE. SYDNEY, July 14. The Rowing Association is considering the proposal of Mr. Cunningham, of Melbourne, to send an Australian eight-oar crew to compete with an' English eight on the Zambesi next spring. A prominent amateur, who is negotiating the scheme in England, states that he can raise £1000 to defray the expenses of the Australians. PERJURERS SENTENCED. MELBOURNE, July 14. Six mcn —Frederick Saxon Siddeley, Henry Bredin, Gustav Bartling. Edward Edgar Batchelor. James Albert Paton, and Charles Alfred Paton—who pleaded guilty to perjury in connection with the Ronald-Harper case, have each been sentenced to two years' imprisonment. The seventh perjurer, Frederick Ballingall, was found guilty, and sentenced to two years' hard labour.