MISCELLANEOUS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue LXVIII, 26 June 1912, Page 7

MISCELLANEOUS.

BERLIN, June 25. Lichsoriberger, a merchant, has been sentenced to four y&a'fs-ggjinprisonment at Liepzig for attempjting'to procure for a foreign Power a specimen of the latest projectile and a copy of the naval signal book.

LISBON, Juno _f». The weavers' strike has been settled. SYDNEY. June 26. The churches are organising a public demonstration against the introduction of the totalisator.

Tlie report of Brennen's Amphitheatres, Ltd., for the period from its incorporation to March 29th, shows a loss of £4,080. However, since the last mentioned date, the. profits have more than wiped out the loss. Discontent is again acute throughout the telegraphic service, the chief grievance being broken shift rates of pay. A movement is afoot to secure united action, and in the event of failure to I obtain redress, extreme-action is threatened.

The Broken Hill Proprietary Co. has decided to establish large steel works at Waratah, New South Wales. A syndicate has purchased from two French planters 65,000 acres in the New Hebrides, situated on the Islands of Maevo, Exote, Santo, and Epi. The properties are mostly cocoanut lands, and are valued at over a quarter of -a million. An immediate start is to be made to develop the properties. ■ Another property of 2500 acres has been' purchased by a Sydney firm on the; Island of Ambrym, at a cost of £6.000. -

MELBOURNE. Juno 26. In conection with the Marconi Company's • action against the Commonwealth that the opposition to allowing fringements of patents, an affidavit has been made on behalf of the Commonwealth that tbe oposition to allowing an inspection of the Fedeeral Wireless stations was not based on the pecuniary or commercial interests of the Postal Department,^ but solely in the interests oi the public welfare and naval and military defence. The Commonwealth Government intends to patent the process it has in use.

FREMANTLE, June 24. Bishop Rood, of Melanesia, is a passenger by the Otway.

BRISBANE, June 26. Further general rains have fallen, and a gale is raging on the coast;