VARIOUS CABLES

Evening Post, Volume LXXXVI, Issue 113, 8 November 1913, Page 5

VARIOUS CABLES

<By Telegraph.— Press Association.— Copyright.) (Received November 8, 9.30 a.m.) CONSOLIDATED GOLDFIELDS OF SOUTH AFRICA. LONDON, 7th November. The Consolidated Goldfields of South Africa will pay a year's dividend of 10 per cent, compared with 17£ per cent, for the previous year. Depreciation of investments necessitates the withdrawal of a pillion from reserve and the appropriation of £402,000 of the year's revenue. SHIPPING MANAGER DROWNED. SYDNEY, This Day. Mr. Cecil Smith, manager at Mackay for the Australian Steamship Line, was leaning over the rail of the steamer Canberra, when he fell overboard and was drowned. MAN KILLED ; ANOTHER BADLY INJURED. SYDNEY, This Day. Mr. Hart, paymaster to the Sydney Fire Brigades, and a companion were visiting the fire stations when their horse bolted. Mr. Hart was killed, and his companion seriously injured. (Received November 8, 8.30 a.m.) DISQUALIFIED FOR LIFE. MELBOURNE, This Day. It is officially announced that as a result of the stipendiary stewards' enquiry Loch Maben and the owner have been disqualified for life. [Loch Maben, well known as a performer in New Zealand, U by San Fran — H.M.S. Pinafore.] GOVERNOR OF VICTORIA. LONDON, 7th November. The Morning Post states that it is improbable that Sir John Fuller will return to Victoria. It is feared that health reasons will compel him to resign the State Governorship. [Sir John, who with Lady Fuller is visiting England, recently met with an accident.] MONEY FOR CHARITABLE PURPOSES. LONDON, 7th November. The late Miss Mary Fowler, of Liverpool, whose estate is valued at £107,000, has left £95,000 to the Salvation, Army for the provision of homes for aged women and children's homes. GIRL SAVED BY A NURSE. WASHINGTON, 7th November. Driven insane by the terrors she endured on the burning steamer Volturno, in mid-Atlantic, an immigrant girl named Novick, eluded the hospital nurses, and plunged into New York Bay. A nurse jumped into the water and rescued tho girl. Both have since recovered from their immersion. SMALLPOX. SYDNEY, 7th November. Four cases of smallpox were reported to-day. Sixty-nine patients are" still in quarantine. There are fifty-nine convalescents, and twenty-six contacts. A SUICIDE. SYDNEY, 7th November. Mr. James Paterson, Australian manager for Messrs. Cooper and Nephews, sheep dip ( manufacturers, shot himself dead in his office to-day. He left a pencilled note, stating that he "could not help it." Mr. Paterson, who was sixty years of age, was well known in Australia and New Zealand. He had been in indifferent health lately. NEXT SHACRLETON EXPEDITION SYDNEY, This Day. Two Sydneyites — Captain Elms and Mr. W. R. Elders— both with Polar experience, have volunteered for Sir Ernest Shnckleton's Antarctic Expedition next year. (Received November 8, 12.30 p.m.) BRITISH TRADE. LONDON, 7th November. Board of Trade returns show that imports during October last increased by £710,382, that exports decreased by £1,711,283, and that re-exports decreased by £488,580, compared with the previous October.