FROM THE CABLES.

Manawatu Times, Volume LXV, Issue 1867, 11 March 1913, Page 7

FROM THE CABLES.

The Sydney Daily Telegraph says it may be authoritatively stated that after the present Parliament, Hon. Jas. McGowan, Labour Premier of New South Wales, will not only relinquish Premiership, but retire altogether from active political life.

Madame Melba's son (who is suffering from pneumonia at Paris) is slightly better.

The Pope is suffering from a slight attack of influenza.

The Bishop of Oxford presided at a demonstration in Queen's Hall, London, in favour of the extension of the Trades Board Act. A resolution was passed urging the Government to extend its scope.

A man in officerVuniform called and the municipal books at Sutterhausen, Germany. Finding several thousand marks above the correct amount he took the money with the officials' consent, allegedly to the Ministry of Finance at Berlin. The Municipal officers subsequently discovered they had been robbed.

Dr Mawson, in a wireless to the Federal Meteorologist, says the climate in Adelieland is probably the severest on earth. The average wind velocity is fifty miles an hour south by east and direct from the Pole with deluges of snow. In wirelessing Professor Masson, Dr Mawson says he still hopes to get away, but if he remains another year he will be certain to keep in wireless touch with Australia. He reports that all are well.

In the case against Newton and Bennett, the solicitors charged with fraud, Torsch, the complainant, gave evidence that he was induced to invest £14,500 in the Manchurian Concessions, Limited, for which he did not receive any return. Subsequently Newton and others persuaded him to invest £IO,OOO in alleged bogus land and timber concessions in Canada. Newton's bail has been fixed at £IO,OOO.