LATE CABLE NEWS.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLVI, Issue 196, 19 August 1912, Page 7

LATE CABLE NEWS.

[FEKBS J-ttBGGIATION.] ARRESTED AS A SPY

LONDON, Aug. 16. A man named George Quetalet has ' Tbeen arrested-at Gal way on a charge *>f espionage. A number of documents were seized in Quetalet's rooms overlooking the Renmore barracks. DR. MORRISON. t BERLIN, Aug. 16. The statement that Germany is op : posing Dr. Morrison's appointment as political adviser to the President of China is semi-officiaily denied. THE ERUPTION OF STROMBOLI. ROME, Aug. 17. The eruption of Stromboli exceeds ia magnitude that of 1907. Ashes are pouring from four craters. RESULT OF A COW-BITE. j LONDON, Aug. 17. Mr Bell, a veterinary inspector in Ireland, has contracted! foot and mouth disease owing to a cow biting him. " TRAINING FOR THE NEXT WAR. PARIS, Aug. 17. Lieutenant Scott won the Michelin prize of £1000 at Chalons, dropping bombs from an altitude of 2400 feet, i

CANADA AND AUSTRALASIA.

OTTAWA,-Aug. 17. Bxport figures indicate a great expansion of Canada's trade in automobiles to New Zealand. The New Zealand! Shipping Company has carried 1200 cars from Montreal to New Zealand!. Australian exports through Vancouver iare rapidly increasing.

THE HARVESTER TRUST. CHICAGO, Aug. 17. Other interests concerned with the International Harvester Company have ousted Mr Morgan. Chicago financiers have decided to throw* off Wall Street domination. Cyrus McCormick and Harold McCormick now •control the trust.

BRILLIANT CAREERS CUT OFF. *" LONDON, Aug. 17. Mr Jones, of Clare College, Cambridge, who, with his wife and a guide, was killed while alpine climbing, was a leading expert on stereochemistry, and was recently elected! a Fellow of the Royal Society. He was n. member of Lord Fisher's Oil Fuel JCommission, and was reputed to be «ne ofthe two best English climbers. His wife wasa brilliant scholar and an enthusiastic climber.

EXPERT AIRMEN,

V . PARIS, Aug. 16. International seroplanists' certificates have been awarded ajs follows • F:ranee 614, Britain 200,' Germany ono' i taly 101; balloonist®, Germany 820, France 190, Austria 72, ItaJy 67 Britain 16; dirigibles, Germany 34 France 21, Austria 15, Britain 7

TRADE WITH HULL. MELBOURNE, Aug. 17. ct I V €' i S]? ecial trade commissioner at Hull states that 99 per cent, of the producers and merchants of Australia favor direct trade with Hull

TWO UNIVERSITIES. MELBOURNE, Aug. 17 At a meeting of the Secondary teachers Association, Professor Berry referred to the remarkable progrei of Sydney University during the last fire years. He stated that^he proHV 6' Sydney University was 5& tyl!W^me&n ?i. of *^ fines* jSaKnTSEPI™- Melbourne required fft 000 *° £500,000 to nmke 9"t g6 Ahead properly. /

ENGLISH OARSMEN.

rm, xt •« SYI>NEY, Aug. 17. The New South Wales and1 Victorian Rowing Associations are strenuously co-operating to endeavor to secure a visit from a crew of English oarsmen m 1913A

MALTESE IMMIGRANTS

MELBOURNE, Aug 17 lh© Federal Government has dp-