MISCELLANEOUS CABLES

Press, Volume XLIX, Issue 14823, 14 November 1913, Page 14

MISCELLANEOUS CABLES

(By Cable.—Pwm Aisociation.—<3opyritrht.) There is an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease near Eastbourne. Four cases of smallpox were reported in Sydney yesterday. The capture of Mulai Hand by Bedouins is denied. The ex-Sultan of Morocco is staying at Mecca.

The Newfoundland elections resulted in tho return of the GoTernment by a majority of six.

Tho "Daily Chronicle" states that it has definito information that there are no Franco-British negotiations over the New Hebrides.

Professor Alfred Werner, of Zurich, has been awarded tho Nobel prize for chemistry, and Professor Kamarlinch Onnes, of Leyden, tho physics prize.

Montreal advices state that while thirteen employees of a power company wore crossing the Lacliine Canal in a flat-bottomed boat, the boat capemed, and nine wero drowned.

Courtney Vassin Hatfi.eld t who has been "share farming" near Kargo, New South Wales, has inherited a quarter of a million from his Vassin, a Texan rancher, who left three-quart-ers of a million to his nieco and hor two sons.

An Ottawa message says that Hector Campbell, of Charlottetown, has been notified of the death in Australia of a namesake and relative, who was the wealthiest eheepowner in the Commonwealth. Campbell intends asserting a claim on the estate, which is reported to be worth a million dollars.

A Perth message says that "W. Jackman who was in partnership -with Hover, has been arrested for the murder of Boyer. Jackman first reported that Boyer had been drowned while bathing, but now states that he shot Boyer accidentally, and being afraid of the consequences, partially burned tho body and threw it into a well.

In the libel case Denham versus tho Queensland "Daily Mail" the reporter who reported Mr Bowman's speech (the defendant) gave evidence that the cause of his making the mistake in reporting was the way Mr Bowman spoke and his misunderstanding Mr Bowman's words. The acoustic properties of the Chamber had nothing to do with it. Tho case is proceeding.