AUSTRALIAN CABLES.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LV, Issue 14133, 12 February 1910, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN CABLES.

CAPTAIN’S CERTIFICATE SUSPENDED. By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright. SYDNEY, Feb. 11. The certificate of Captain Bishop, master of the steamer Eden, has been suspended for six months from the date of the stranding of the vessel. VALUABLE SYDNEY LAND. SYDNEY, Fob.' 11. A block of land in. George Street, near the General Post Office, has been sold for £1032 per foot. SYDNEY’S MILK SUPPLY. SYDNEY, Feb. 11. In connection with the proseclition for selling milk below the standard quality, one of the defendant carter vendors admitted watering tho milk himself, thereby profiting. He declared that it was a general practice among milk carters. NAPOLEON’S CABIN BOY. (Received Fob. 12, 10.40 a.m.) SYDNEY, Fob. 12. A man named Johnstone, who claimed to be a cabin boy to Napoleon when on his way to St. Helena, is dead, Johnstone was 105 years of ago. EARTH TREMORS. (Received Feb. 12, 10.40 a.m.) SYDNEY, Fob. 12.' During tho past week the seismograph at tho observatory registered several important earth tremors. The severest wore experienced on tho fourth and fifth instants. PACIFIC CABLE BOARD. (Received Feb. 12, 10.40 a.m.) MELBOURNE, Fob. 12. Sir Geo. Reid, Federal High Commissioner, has been appointed to tho Pacific Cable Board.