CABLE ITEMS.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLVII, Issue 140, 16 June 1913, Page 7

CABLE ITEMS.

[Press Association.] SHIPWRECKED SAILORS KILLED.

GIBRALTAR, June 13. Tlie Spanish warship General Concilia has been wrecked at Alcuhemas. ■Thirty out of 90 of the crew were killed by a fusillade from 1000' Moors assembled on the slopes. "AFTER MANY DAYS."

LONDON, Juno 13. The Daily Mail's New York correspondent says that Mr Tho>rmoroft a Melbourne lawyer, visited Dr.. »■ Hingley, of Wellston, Ohio, and notified him that he is the hear to £200,000 left by Charles Froelich. Hingley lent £140 to Froelich when he was a farm lad a quarter of a century ago. This enabled him to enter an engineering college. HIS LAST JOY RIDE. NEW YORK, June 13. Andrew Drew, pupil of Orville Wright, fell 200 feet in a. burning biplane and ■ was. killed amongst the wreckage. Drew failed to test the machine before his flight. He laughingly asked his partner to come tor a little joy ride. Th© latter refused, because toe was going to dinner. Drew was president of the Aviators' Association of America, formed for the purpose of promoting safe methods of flight.

mUSTS IN THE ARGENTINE

BUENOS AYRES, June 13. The Minister for Agriculture, in reply to the Anglo-Airgentine Meat Company, declined at present to interfere with industrial freedom, but promised to take necessary steps in the event of fresh facts foreshadowing the creation of combinations disadvan^ tageous to the country.

RAILWAY SMASH

NEW YORK, June 13. The second section of the Springfield express crashed into the first section of the New York-Hartford-Newhaven railroad train. Four people were killed and many injured, .The engine ploughed through a Pullman car, injuring 30 inmates'.

MILLIONAIRE'S SUICIDE

GENEVA, June 13. Eugene Maggi, a wellrknown millionaire, and his wife committed suicide at their splendid villa at Zurich. The servants found the gas in the bedroom turned' om and the windows sealed.

MARCONI PROFITS

LONDON, June 13. The Marconi Company's profits are set out for the year at £24,400. A dividend of 10 per cent, has been declared, and £3100 carried forward. Exclusive of Warships, 1700 sihips have been fitted with the Marconi apparatus.

SWORN IN,

LONDON, June 13. The King held a meeting of the Privy Council at Buckingham Palace, at which Lord Islington was sworn in.

WOOTTON-SIEVIER, ACTION,

LONDON, June 13. The Appeal Court has ordered Sievier to furnish particulars of 'his defence in the Wootton action.

AMERICAN YACHT DETAINED.

TOKIO, June 13. The American yacht Columbia has been detained at Ngahama because she entered a closed port.

RAND NATIVE LABOR

JOHANNESBURG, June 13. The Government Director of Native Labor, reporting on the high mortality in the Rand mines, states that the medical service is shockingly inadequate. The doctors refuse to pay night visits, however serious the case may be. The doctors- attend the mine hospitals for one hour daily, and the natives are examined at the rate'of one per minute. The Director recommends Government action.

FIGHTING IN MOROCCO

TANGIER, June 12. Six , thousand Ka'byles menace Tebaan. Moors disguised as women havo been caught stabbing the inrhabitants. The Consulates are specially guarded, and troops have been despatched.

BIG GERMAN LINER

LONDON, June 12. The ' steamer Imperator left Southampton on her maiden voyage ■with over 4000 passengers and a crew of 1100.

WEATHER REPORTS

MELBOURNE June 13. Professor David is endeavoring to prevail on the Commonwealth to! retain the wireless installation at the Macquaries. He points out that parallel conditions exist at the Fal Islands and Macquaries, _ and the monthly cabled meteorological reports now received from the Argentine include a report from the Falklands. If regular reports from the Macquaries were received in conjunction with those from the Falklands, the reports of the Commonwealth Weathei Bureau would be much assisted. The request will probably be granted.

CAPENESS OUT ON BAIL

MELBOURNE, June 13. Subsequently to the inquest on the body of Mrs Capeness, for whoso murder her husband was committed for trial, the Chief Justice granted Capeness bail, at £200.

WEST AUSTRALIAN PROGRESS. LONDON, June 13. At the West Australian banquet, Mr Harcourt announced the -renewal of Sir Newton Moore's term as Agent-General in London. Mr Harcourt said that the most important event for many years was the commencement of the trans-Conti-nental railway, which was destined to contribute to the unity, sentiment, and communication, besides fulfilling Lord Kitchener'!;- recommendation for defence.

VICTIM OF ANTHRAX. MELBOURNE, June 14. A drover named Gleeson has died of anthrax, supposed to have been contracted on the Moan a APPOINTMENTS 70 LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.

BRISBANE. June 14. Three new 'Legislative Councillors have beon appointed — Messrs 1. Cribb, E Forrest, and R. Collins. METHODIST CONFERENCE. ' BRISBANE, Jtme 14. The- Methodist Conference appointed Dr Brown to represent Australasia at the English centenary celebrations next year.

a QUARANTINE STATION. • BRISBANE, June 14. A quarantine station has been established at Thursday Island, as the outcome of agitation against Sydney -"being made the central station tor patients arriving by steamers from the East.

BOXING STADIUM VETOED

BRISBANE, Tune 14. The Governor-in-Council rescinded resolutions by the Brisbane South and

I Brisbane City Councils, granting ! licenses for th© election of a stadium I at South Brisbane and authorising the holding of boxing contests in the Palace Gardens. The churches and other bodies strongly opposed the licenses. .