CABLES.

Manawatu Times, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 12807, 3 June 1914, Page 8

CABLES.

By Electric Telegraph—Presj Association —Copyright. LONDON, June 1.

Some Sea Scouts who were sailing a cutter were capsized off Somer Leyton, in Suffolk, while hoisting a sail. Three instructors, including an exnavy man, and three boys were drowned. The sole survivor was a boy who succeeded in swimming ashore. (Times. —Sydney Sun Service.) LONDON, June 1.

There is a serious shortage in the regular army. For the last nineteen months the numbers have been dwindling at the average rate of 411 monthly.

At the Irish Trade Union Congress, which is meeting in Dublin, Jim Larkin, leader of the Dublin strike, was elected president. He stated that now Home Rule was settled, the Irish Labour Party would be established next week.

PARIS, June 1

The newspaper Homme Libre states that the New Hebrides negotiations are likely to be protracted, as Australian Imperialism has thrown its weight into the balance. The newspapers suggest that France exchange the New Hebrides for Mauritius. BRISBANE, June 2. The steamer Waipara, from London, which went ahsore in a bad place at Hannibal Reef, sauthward of Thursday Island, but was later towed off, has been berthed at Cairns. She does not appear to have been seriously damaged.