CABLE NEWS.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 13602, 6 February 1915, Page 3

CABLE NEWS.

(Press Assn.— By Telegraph— Copyright.) LONDON, Feb. 5. The King has become patron of the Overseas Club.

In connection with the Cabinet charges Mr Neil Primrose succeeds Mr Acland, and Mr Cecil Harmsworih succeeds Mr Ellison Griffiths.

MELBOURNE, Feb. 5. • As the result of eight years' work, the Licensing Reduction Board has closed over 800 hotels at a cost of £400,000, provided by the liquor trade itself.

SYDNEY, Feb. 6. Th search for the missing trawler Endeavour has been abandoned, and the Werribee and Grautala have been ordered to report at Hobart. The authorities recognise that the search has been most thorough, and that everything possible has been done.

At the Supreme Court to-day the author, Grant *Hervey, who is charged by John Norton with attempting to obtain money by fraud, was brought up for sentence for forging a telegram with intent- to defraud. A telegram was sent to Gazzard, proprietor of the Casterton News, signed "Livingstone." It stated that Hervey was bankrupt. Hervey was sentenced to two -years' imprisonment. He impassionedly protested his innocence, stating that he had been convicted because of the rottenest gang of perjurers ever in Court. The judge refused to suspend sentence until the Norton case was decided.

(Received February 6, 10 a.m ) SYDNEY, Feb. 6. The Daily Telegraph Newspaper Company has declared a dividend of "twelve and. a-half per centum and added £10,000 to ill© reserve. The net profits for the year decreased nearly £80,000, chiefly the result of the war.

ADELAIDE, Feb. 6. In view of the improved outlook in the copper market the Moonta and Wallaroo mines has restored ten of the twenty per centum reduction in wages.