Miscellaneous Cables,

Waikato Argus, Volume XXXV, Issue 5508, 14 January 1914, Page 3

Miscellaneous Cables,

Home, January 13. The oHJce of unemployment .statistics show that as the result of the Tripoli War there is an alarming increase in the unemployed, in many towns 25 to 50 per cent, being out of work. The weather is increasing the crisis. More emigrated in the last half-year than in the whole of the previous year. London, January 13. The council of the Loyal Geographical Society has voted £IOOO towards Sir Ernest Shackleton's Antarctic expedition. The driver and conductor of an omnibus identified the body of Starchiield, who was found strangled in a railway carriage. In cumpanv with a foreigner he boarded the 'bus at Kentishtown an hour before the body was found. AUSTRALIA. Received 11.45 p.m., 13th. Sydney, January 13. The wool sales opened today with an all-round demand, crosshreds participating. Last week's advance was fully maintained. Received 10.30 a.m., Nth. Sydney, January 14. A tire destroyed Bums Company's timber yard at I'yrmout. The damage iH heavy. Fremantle, January 14. The aviator Hawker is a passenger on the Maloja. lie will make a three months' visit. He brings aeroplanes and intends to give exhibitions, and will possibly attempt a flight from Melbourne to Sydney. He is prepared to loop the loop if sufficient inducement is nlTered for the feat. He says it is easy, posesssing no great elements of danger. He will return to England to compete in the Cordon Bennett test and the Daily Mail prize. Sydney, January 11. During seven years the Licenses Reduction Hoard has closed 71 hotels, whereof feO per cent, were in metropolitan and urban centres. The £344,952 compensation paid was met by the other hotels.