GENERAL CABLES.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXII, Issue LXXII, 10 July 1917, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES.

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

BY GABLE—PEESS ASSOCIATION—COPYEIGHT (Australian-N.Z. Cable Association.) MELBOURNE, July 9. " 1^ aT5' Office announces that the steamship Cumberland was severely damaged by an explosion in her hold and had to be beached on Gabo Island. If the fine weather continues there is a chance of saving the vessel. The Cumberland (8993 tons) left Sydney for England on Thursday. The explosions occurred on Friday morning No lives were lost. t T* 16.. Adv*Sol%y Council ox Science and Industry recommends the establishment of a. permanent institute to increase the output of skilled specialists for the de velopment of .primary and secondary industries. The Huddart Parker tug Myora, while towing a schooner to Port Pirie Sydney, broke adrift in (the gale and foundered. The crew of fifteen were lost. Ihe schooner is helpless and assistance has been sent. ia. A.X. SYDNEY, July 9. At the annnal conference of farmers and settlers, the president predicted the largest industrial crisis Australia had ever known m the near future, engineered by the disgruntled Labor Party while the men were away at the front •n. at x- ,-■ HOBART, July 9. Ihe Nationalists won three of the lour seats in the State Assembly vacated by Labor members to contest federal seats. This secures the Government a comfortable majority.