AUSTRALIAN CABLES.

Bush Advocate, Volume XXI, Issue 131, 2 December 1908, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN CABLES.

iPress As-k-^By telegraphs-Copyright. \| % SYDNEY, Vesterday. v g_ri.ved|(6\a'?in.)':- Ulimarofov Arrived: Advance, ' from Kaipara. ... The American yacht Coronet, which, sailed ff onr Sydney a week ago, and about which some mystery was maintained, cleared for Melbourne. The .owner claimed that he was exempt from'liarljoi^'regnlatioris, a's-the vessel was on the register of a recognised ! Yacht Club. 'Horefused to enter his vessel with the Customs, officers. Yesterday, however, he; complied. Five men and women and five children aro aboard, and they, are believed -to bo members of some fanatical- religious -sect. -■■- '• .-7: .- : .. '-- Lieutenant Berthon, a. French artillery officer, sentenced to life imprisonment for selling. Fierich military secrets, passed r th : rou^| Sydney : en route to NoumeA. .'.':'■'. " .y- : : .. y-. ; . The Prometheus has returned from the New Hebrides. • She reports that Aramasanga, one of the murderers of the, Greig" family, was given up by his tribe.. The prisoner was incensed at the treachery of his people, and led a punitive expedition to the village, where the ringleader of the mur•derer wa9 shot dead. Arainasanga was transported to Fiji for life. SYDNEY, last night. Another confession by Billy Wilson was read to-day, declaring that Aldwyn Wilson, stepson of Mrs Wilson, and not Mrs Wuson, murdered- Miss Duffy. Billy Wilson has been committed for trial. NEWCASTLE, yesterday. Sailed : Banksfield, for Lyttelton. I BRISBANE, yesterday. ; Arrived: Adrangi. .