CABLE ITEMS.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLVII, Issue 141, 17 June 1913, Page 2

CABLE ITEMS.

[Pkess Association.]

REVOLTING MOROCCAN TRIBES. MADRID, June 14. Advices from Tetuan state that Commander-General Conche was killed in an onslaught by Kabyles. The gunboat Lauria shelled the Moors and re&•oued 65 prisoners, including.l 3 wounded, and nine others of the captured vessel's crew. The Spanish troops are undertaking a combined movement from JTetuan. Arizibia, and Alcazar, for the purpose of ..clearing out the menacing tribes. They are encountering a sharp resistance. .

A LUCKY WIN

LONDON, June 14. W. Howie, <a hunting man of independent means, won £50,000 in a Calcutta sweep-stakes. :l

SALE OF PICTURE

. LONDON, June 14.. Romney'a full length painting of "Anne, Lady De la Pole" was sold at Christie's for £41,170. During the day. £120,000 worth of piotua-es were sold, which is & record.

OSCAR WILDE'S "DE PROFUNDIS.

LONDON, June 14. Lord Alfred Bruce-Douglas, in his examination in bankruptcy, claimed ownership of the manuscript of "De Profundis," which is valued at £5000. He offered to assist the creditors in obtaining the manuscript from the British Museum.

FROZEN MEAT QUESTION.

LONDON, June 14. Buenos Aires reports that the Minister1 for Agriculture is of opinion that he, cannot take action on the frozen meat question, it being one affecting private concerns.

POLO

NEW^YORK, June 14

America retains the Polo Cup, winning the second match by 4| goals to 4J. ' , ■ .

HURIET> BY FALL OF ROCK. NEW YORK, June 14. Thirteen workmen, in a new subway tvere buried by a. fall of rock. A charge of dynamite was used to clear the fallen rock. Eleven were crushed to. death, and two were extricated seriously injured.

TWO EARTHQUAKES.

t / SOFIA, June 15. Two severe earthquakes occurred in Bulgaria and Southern Hungary. Some houses at Tirnovo collapsed, and there were several fatalities.

IN MILITARY OCCUPATION,

ROME, June 15. The village of Orgosolo, Sardinia, has been occupied by the military, owing to eight murders following the acquitftd of men charged with assassinating a priest's brother.

PURE IRISH,

LONDON, June 15. Eight Irish distilleries have combined to produce the best IrisHi whisky. A capital of £1.000,000 has been subscribed. The object is to terminate the system of importing British whisky, and after blending it reshipping it as Irish.

"SOCIAL GOSSIP."

ROME, June 15. The .newspaper El Cora-iere Delia Sera, published at QVlilan, states that the Duke of Orleans, travelling as Phillippe de Villier, has sailed for Buenos Ayres with the so-called Countess JearfMes Alverte.

SUBMARINE E. 5

LONDON, June 13. Another of the crew of submarine E. 5 has succumbed.

SHIPPING TRUST. WASHINGTON, June 13. -Che House Committee on the Shipping Trust has reported that all the American coast lines combined in an agreement to eliminate competition. MEETING THE TERRA NOVA LONDON, June 14. Lady Scott met the Terra Nova at Cardiff.

STEEL WORKS AT MONTREAL. LONDON, June 14. Armstrong and Whitworth haW obtained 70 acres near Montreal, upon which will be.erected steel works at a -cost of £200,000, ultimately employing 2000 men. The erection will begm m May next.

MONOPLANE DISASTER

LONDON, June 14. Gordon Bell was monoplaning at Brdokla-nds, with Lieutenant Kennedy, a naval airman, as passenger. At eighty miles an hour, on turning a^corner, a wing touched the ground ami overturned the monoplane. Kennedy had his neck broken and Bell was seriously injured.

DISASTROUS FLOODS

. LONDON, June 14. Bombay reports that 300 flives were lost by floods at Palitana.

NATIONAL NURSING SCHEME. LONDON, June 16. A conference of the Local Government Board, the National Health lasurance Committee, and other bodies, Mr Burns presiding, appointed a committee to prepare a scheme of nursing on the basis of <-o-ordination and co-operation.

MEXICAN REBELLION

NEW YORK, June 16. Reports from El Paso (Texa) state that there has been further fighting between the Chihuahua State and the Federal troops, near Sansillo, in Mexico. Six hundred Federal soldiers were, killed or wounded.

FREEDOM LEAGUERS HUSTLED ADELAIDE, June 16. A meeting" of tho Freedom League was -held at the Botanic Park, to protest against the cruel -treatment of cadets by imprisonment for nonattendance at' drill. The speakers were hustled off the stands and howled down, and the , gathering broke up in disorder.

SECOND MRS PANKHIJRST

ADELAIDE, June 14. A woman broke up a cadet parade by forcing herself into the ranks and loudly exhorting the boys not to participate. When the instructor asked her to leave she refused, declaring rhat she was a second Mrs «PankiursJy, and intended to keep up the protest against tyranny.

GOLF

SYDNEY, June 15. W. Sturrock won the amateur golf championship of New South Wales, defeating the holder/ Apperley.

ELECTROCUTED

SYDNEY, Juno 16. An electric meter reader named Pollock was found ■■ electrocuted near a live wire. Apparently he had been testing it while standing on a wet place. /'

WELL AND TRULY LAID

SYDNEY, June 16. Mr MeCcOwen laid the foundation stone of the new hospital, which will cost £66,000. Mr Griffith laid the foundation stone of the Government