VARIOUS CABLES.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXII, Issue 139, 9 December 1911, Page 7

VARIOUS CABLES.

tit Teleeranh.— Pre»i Association.— Copyright. (Received December 9, 12.30 p.m.) WIRELESS COMPANiES IN LITIGATION. LONDON, Bth December. The Marconi Wireless Company has withdrawn the action against the Telefunken Company, and substituted another, the claim including damages for alleged infringements of the Lodge patents, i (Reoeive'd December 9, 8.5 a.m. . COAL FOR THE NAVY. LONDON, Bth December. The Admiralty has contracted for one and a quarter million tons of Welsh coal for 1912 at 16s 6d a ton above the price paid in 1910. (Received December 9, 8.15 a.m.) RECONSTRUCTION SCHEME. LONDON, Bth December. Under a reconstruction scheme, the North British and 1 Australasian Company proposes to write down capital by £111,721 and consolidate the various issues into one stock. SUICIDE OF A MURDERER. SYDNEY, This Day. At an inquest concerning the death of Baker, who murdered' his wife, tho verdict was that death was due to strychnine, self -administered. LADY MEDALLIST. SYDNEY, This Day. Lady Medallist has been scratched' for the Summer Cup. (Received December 9, 10 a.m.) BARREJtfJACK DAM. SYDNEY, This Day. A fault has developed at the Bamep.v jack Dam,' delaying the application tf water for irrigation purposes for a year. COMPULSORY TRAINING. LONDON, Bth December. The members of the Stock Exchange axe xaifiing £10,000 far the National Service League's propaganda in favour of compulsory training. The sum of £2000 has already been collected. [The system advocated by the National Service League provides that in all schools bays shall be given instruction in patriotism and in their duty to their country. Physical' training of a military character and- instruction in tho use of th« rifle to become -part of the curriculum. Where boya leave school before eighteen, this training would b6 continued in cadet corps, boys' brigades, and similar' organisations, under State supervision^ All ' boys would , undergo this training, and it is believed one resolt of ''it woold be to give the Territorial Armjr and Regular Army a good supply of instructed, recruits. Further, every boy when he ai-rived at military age would undergo three or four months' military training in the regular forces (Army or Navy) or Territorial Army, and ©very man of sound physique would be legally liable, during certain years of his life, to be called upon to serve for the defence of the United Kingdom in emergency.] PROTEST AGAINST A SENTENCE. LONDON, Bth December. The Corporation of Limerick adjourned for a week a* a protest against the sentence of on© month's imprisonment passed on Dalton, a councillor, who was found guilty of unlawful assembly and taking down a flag which was being flown at a local resident's house. LITHGOW STRIKE FINES PAID. SYDNEY, Bth December. All the fines in connection with the ..Lithgow strike we*e paid to-day. MYLIUS RELEASED. LONDON. Bth December. Edward Mylius, who was imprisoned for libelling King George, has been released on account of good conduct in gaol.[Mylius, about thirty years of age, was_ in February last sentenced for publishing in a paper called the Liberator an article which stated that the King, when Prince of Wales, married adaughter of Admiral Sir Michael Culne Seymour, and that his wife, and off- ! spring born of the union had been foully abandoned in order that he could contract a bigamous marriage witn Queen Mary . The marriage was said to have taken place in 1890. Admiral Seymour deposed that his daughter Laura died in 1895, aged twenty- two, unmarried.] ■ FOOT AND MOUTH DISEASE. LONDON, Bth DecemberSeventeen heifers at Tintinhull have been discovered to be affected with foot -and mouth disease. HEAT WAVE. SYDNEY, Btn December. There is another heat wave. High temperatures are being expemnoed everywhere. To-day was the hottest day of this summer. The. temperature recorded was '97.5 Fahr. (Received December 9, iO a.m.) SYDNEY, This Day. Yesterday's scorcher was responsible for a number of cases of heat apoplexy. WOMAN WHO KILLED HER HUSBAND ACQUITTED. NEW YORK, Bth December. At San Francisco a, Mrs. Sudall shot dead her divorced husband, against whom sh© alleged ill-treatment. She was acquitted by the jury. CANADIAN FISHERIES. OTTAWA, Bth December. A separate Department of Fisheries will be established by the Federal Government. Steps' are to be taken to farther protect the fisheries of tho Pacific against American poachers. MAURETANIA REFLOATED. LONDON. Bth December. The Cunard liner Mauretania, which was driven aground in the Mersey duringa hurricane, has been refloated. She is little damaged. The Lusitania (sister ship) sails for New York Instead of her.