MISCELLANEOUS CABLES

Press, Volume XLVIII, Issue 14409, 17 July 1912, Page 9

MISCELLANEOUS CABLES

0 _ United Press Association—By Electrio Telegraph—Copyright. Tho English underwriters have lost £5,027.000 during the last six months through shipping casualties. Mr Fisher was the first depositor after the opening of the Commonwealth Bank in Melbourne. , Mr James Bryco -wae accorded a brilliant reception at Melbourne "University. The St. Petersburg "Novoo Vremya," commenting on the Khotan incident, insists on tho despatch of troops. .

A Sydney message states that 205 ft of the Bulli jetty was destroyed. An estimate of the damngo places it at £14,000.

The Federal Government has sent a communication to Britain objecting to the- Panama Canal Bill and tho departure from the Hay-Paunoefote- Treaty.

During the year ended June 13th, 7734 buildings wero completed in t:io Sydney metropolitan area at a cost of £4,495,017—a record.

A Berne message snys that the backwash from a steamer on Lake Constance upset two pleneure boats, nnd eleven people were drowned.

Ten Russian sailds were sentenced to death at Sebastapol for inciting the cruiser Tvanglatourv's crew to seize her. Fiy© wero sentenced to six years' imprisonment.

Owing to the hardening of the money market, tho Victorian State Savings Bank has increased tho interest on credit foncier loane from 4$ to 5 per cent.

Tho Ber.in "Tageblatt" has been officially informed that an International Postal Congress will bo neld at Madrid to consider the throe half-penny foreign postage rate.

Tho bodies of two Alpine climbers who have been missing since Christmas, have been found jammed in a crevasse in tho Tyroleso Alps. A notebook found contains a pathetic narrative, showing that they suffered a lingering death from starvation.

A Sydney message says that many vessels aro delayed by the rough weather. The Victorian Government dredge, 193 days out from Rotterdam, put in for shelter. She narrowly escaped swamping.

A New York message says that at Providence, Rhode Island, tho Socialists have re-nominated Miss Helen Dougherty as a candidate for the offico of Secretary of State at the coming election.

Mr Bnry, manager of the Cndeby mine, has succumbed to Iris injuries.

Grey, a male Suffragist, who assaulted 3lr Llojd George at Kennington, has been sentenced to two months 1 imprisonment.

Tho New South Wales Cabinet has recommended tho appointment of Mr Walter Bevan as a Royal Commksioner to enquire into the Kentia palm sfeod industry at Lord Htowo Island. The action has been taken in consequence of certain information received by tho Cabinet.

Sir E. B. Sweet-Escott, in a speech at Sydney, said that the administration of the New Hebrides was a very difficult task, owing to the dual control. He did not fnvonr the condominium, and would welcome any change that would 2ivc the British Commissioner greater powers.

At the annual conference of the Now South Wales Farmers' and Settlers' Association, tho report showed that a strong inter-Stato fund ~as being formed to fight the claims of the Rural Workers' Dnion. The president, in his address, said that the Association was onrjosed to the Government's land policy, and had no rntention of beins the tail of any party, Labonr or Liberal. If it was to bo auy part of tho dog it would bo the head.