AUSTRALIAN CABLES.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 10628, 3 December 1910, Page 4

AUSTRALIAN CABLES.

03y. 'Electric Teleokaph—Copyright.] (Per Press Association.) A STRANGE CLAIM, tteceived December 3, at 0.40. a.m. .. Sydney, December 2. _.A clairvoyant residing in Melbourne haSj/wxitt-en to the Inspector-General of Bp Bee-, claiming the £IOO offered, for' finding Miss Gibson, whose body was recently washed up at Manly. She claims that. she. was consulted when the girl disappeared, and told her parents that thejody would lie found in the sea -

, . THE CAPITAL SITE. • . Sydney, December 2. The State Government has given the federal Government ten square miles 31 Jeryois Bay in connection-with the eapital site territory, instead of one mile as stipulated in the Act.

. SEISMOGRAPH RECORDS. Heceived December 3, at 8.50 a.m. • . Sydney, December 3. j.rDuring .the week ended Thursday manv earth tremors were recorded-at Sydni'v. and' last Saturday the Melbourne seismograph recorded the severest tremor that has, ever affected ■ffie: instrument.

Svdney, December 3. In the-, slander action Captain Strachan "versus Dr Irmcr, German G&svll, ?the jury gave a. verdict for the plSJptiff/-'damages a farthing. " 'MISCELLANEOUS. WM ... Melbourne, December 3, departmental engineer assured tfieJßosfemaster-General that if the telephonic flat rate had 'been continued till vthe: service would have Ijrljken down, and said that the toll a great relief. ' iOfr 90 and .100 ounces were found at North "Woah Hawp mine.

The Scottish Commissioners are .astonished:\nt -the. .large- areas of farms in Australia.. . ; ■, .