AUSTRALIAN CABLES.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 10580, 8 October 1910, Page 4

AUSTRALIAN CABLES.

[By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.] ." ' '(Per Press Association.) ' A FLOATING BOTTLE HOAX. ." Received October 7,' at 10.45 p-ml Sydney, October (-. „ The forest ranger at Wilson's Pro-" mohtory yesterday picked-.up a bottle near South Derby River. -}The cork was much." worn, and had apparently.; been in=-f.he water" for some time. The bottle- contained the" following message: "At sea, latitude - 40 south steamer -Waratah broke down August 23/1909, drifting south, all well ''but anxious. Engineers-busy..' (Signed); J. C. Jones, passehger," c and asking the finder to write To Mrs Jones, Sydney. Inquiries', fiere show that no, J. C:: Jones was a, passenger, and there is no Mrs at the address given. . ' i ' ' ABSURD ARBITRATION RESTRICT \ JIOIJS. ; . , . I Received October Bfat 9.30 a.m. ; \ ; --. '-" 'Perth, October 8. ( Justice Burnside ; stated that he was not going to administer the Arbitration--Act much longer unless the clause that all'members of unions must be present. to pass, a resolution referring the case to thei'CoHiTt was" amended. •- .', ; o. to the Antarctic. ' Melbourne,' October 7. Mr Hughes. promised a deputation, including the wife of Captain Scott to submit'to the Cabinet a request, that there' be granted -£SOO t6wards the cost of Captain-Scott's expedition. MOTOR GARAGE DESTROYED. Sydney, October 8. ■ "May's motor garage lit Leicldiardt was destroyed by fire, and six motors were burnt, two being the property ot Norman Grant, a recent arrival from New Zealand. The damage is estimated at over £SOOO. The cause" ot the outbreak was a spark from a motor being tested. _"