MISCELLANEOUS CABLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 65, 9 November 1912, Page 8

MISCELLANEOUS CABLES.

Potatoes are scarce in Sydney, and choicest are quoted at .CIS a ton. .Burglars at the Civil Service Stores at the Haymarket, London,, stole £IOOO worth of jewellery.

in Mr Riviugton’s petition against his wife, Florence Young, an actress, for d ssolution of marriage, a decree nisi was made absolute in Melbourne. A gang of armed men entered .Faulkner's, jewellers, at Saint Martin s Lane, London, and fell on the proprietor, and stole diamond jewellery valued at £SOO.

Jack Johnson, the pugdist, indicted at Chicago on a charge of a breach of the tin moral Traffic regulations, is missing, and the police are unable to trace him.

With the object of encouraging owners to keep horses suitable for artillery purposes, the British War Office is form ng a special horse reserve, and will subsidise owners to the extent of £4 per horse annually.

The inhabitants of Villa Flora (Portugal), revolted and attacked the Government Bidding, and made a bonfire of the Archives. They then attacked the troops who had been sent to arrest the ringleaders. The soldiers fired wounding many. Seventeen sailors have been sentenced to death at Sebastopol for instigating disturbances in the fleet, one hundred and six sentenced to from four to eight years’ imprisonmen t, and twenty-nine were acquitted.

The purchase of large quantities ol silver by the Indian Government through the firm of Samuel Montague has raised the question whether it is proper for Mr Stuart Samuel, a memtor of the firm, retaining his seat in the House of Commons. The lav officers arc investigating.

; Advices have been received in Sidney that the Kiel, from Port Pirie to England, wheat laden, has arrived in Capetown. During the heavy weather die coal gave out, and wheat was used to keep the holers going. Colour-Sergeant Werington, one ci the- cadets who recently toured England and Canada, returning homo os the steamer Wariakla, was found ciead ia his cabin, shot through iho head, [t- is supposed to lie a case of accident.