MISCELLANEOUS CABLES.

Press, Volume XLVIII, Issue 14513, 20 December 1912, Page 7

MISCELLANEOUS CABLES.

By an explosion in a colliery at Mengendi, Germany, forty men were killed. Lieutenant Garros, who is flying from Tunis to Home, has reached Sicily. ■M. Kovacs, who shot at Count Tisza in the Hungarian Chamber of Deputies, has been acquitted. The Port of London Authority has accepted a tender for a deep-water jetty at liibury. A Madrid message says that tho Chamber ratified the Franco-JSpanish Moroccan Treaty. Thoro was a great gathering at the funeral of George Rignold at Sydney, and an impressive public tribute was paid to tho dead actoi. The United * States assenting, the warship Natal sails on Saturday from Portsmouth for Now York with tho remains of the late Mr Whitclaw Reid. An Adelaide message says that a portion of tho English mail, including that for New Zealand, missed the train tor Sydney on Tuesday, owing to an accident to the mail cart. It is reported from Sydney that "Snowj" Fulton, a well-known boxing trainer, who was stabbed and kicked in a riot in Market street on Saturday night j is dead. The Sydney city and suburban hotelkeepers, after three months' fighting on tho subject of counter lunches, havo Eiveu in, and the lunches have been restored. A message from St. Petersburg says that Colonel Eranzeff, Colonel Eiimotf, and eight officers have been arrested in connection with the mutiny of sappers in July last, at Tashkend. j Mr Chase, an Australian engineer, in a paper read More the Liverpool Engineering Society, propounded a novel scheme of a high-level bridge for tho Mersey, tiro approaches takin" the form of a spiral roadway. A London message says that John Crozier and his wife were found guilty or manslaughter for causing the death of their son, aged seventeen, through giving ham innutritious food. Sentence was deferred. The Norwegian whalers. Hawk© and Eagle, have arrived at Melbourne from KU>seil. Their captains confirm the rej " n P ro °table venture in New Zaaland waters. They intend trying the whahng grounds of" \~cst Australia before returning to Norway.