COMMONWEALTH CABLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 16, 17 January 1913, Page 5

COMMONWEALTH CABLES.

ACCIDENT TO THE SONOMA.

(By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (United Press Association.)

Sydney, January 16

The Oceanic Company is advised that the Sonoma, which sailed for San Francisco on Saturday, struck some submerged wreckage and damaged her starboard tailshaft. She is proceeding at reduced speed.

LICENSING LAW IN MELBOURNE,

Melbourne, January 16,

The report of the Licenses Redaction Board states that 614 hotels have been deprived of their licenses in six years. The compensation paid amounted to £291,831. The report adds that the reductions have had a beneficial result, and this was particularly marked in the lowest quarters of the city. THE TROTTER MURDER. Melbourne, January 16. Faced with Thompson, Mrs. Trotter declared that he was not one of the men who entered her room.

(Received 10.5 a.m.) Melbourne, January 17

A man and a woman who were questioned by the police in regard to the Trotter murder, made unsatisfactory replies, and were arrested and charged with vagrancy.

ADVERTISING AUSTRALIA,

(Received 9.15 a.m.) Sydney , January 17

Sir George Reid has undertaken to supply the British Consuls with pamplets regarding emigration and the prospects of emigrants to Australia. The pamphlets will be translated into French and German. TAVIUNI-NERA COLLISION. Another stage has been reached in the litigation between the Union S.S, Company of New Zealand and the Messageries Maritimes Company in •egard to'the Taviuni-Nera collision in Sydney Harbour on October 2nd, IQII. The Taviuni sank with a cargo of cop•a, and the Nera was considerably damaged. The Union Company claimed £BO,OOO and the Messageries Maritimes Company claimed several thou•ands. Justice Street found that the Vera was solely to blame. The Messageries Maritimes Company appealed to die Full Court, and the latter reversed Justice Street’s judgment. The Union Company now applied for leave to appeal to the Privy Council, and the respondents have agreed thereto. A FAST PASSAGE. The Nippon Yusen Kaisha reduced the time of the voyage between Sydney and Yokohama to thirty days, being two days less than her previous times, (Received 10.5 a.m.) A number of dead fish floating in Willingah Lake, near Termed, were killed by the heat of the water during the hot weather. THE SYDNEY TRAMS. A poll of the ratepayers approved of the proposal to purchase the tramways for £210,000. THE DESTROYER PARRAMATTA.

The destroyer Parramatta in her trial did 27.8 knots an hour.