LATE CABLES.

Waikato Independent, Volume V, Issue 323, 12 January 1907, Page 5

LATE CABLES.

[by electric telegraph — copyright]

SIGHTING BIG GUNS IN EOUGH WEATHER.

A VICTORIAN’S INVENTION

(PER PRESS ASSOCIATION,

(Received January 11, 10.19 p.ra.) 1 London, January 11.

Mr Austin, the Victorian inventor who has submitted an invention to the War Office, informed an interviewer that twice attempts were made to search him and his cabin aboard the Mongolia, but the efforts failed. He did not keep an appointment to land at Marseilles, and a man going in his stead was knocked on the head and searched. Germans and Japanese approached Mr Austin in London and vainly urged him to disclose the secret whereby be claims to be able to sight big guns in rough weather with absolute accuracy up to a range of twelve miles.

A BIG SCHEME. London, January 11. A project will shortly be submitted to Parliament involving the expenditure of £1,250,000, for the acceleration of all British mail routes to the Far East, via the proposed new 7 port at Blacksod Bay, thus bringing Halifax wdthin four days’ sail of London v and Vancouver within 188 hours of London.

THE lEISH SQUABBLE. London, January 11. Mr W. O’Brien, interviewed, stated that Mr Devlin, who is one of the Irish envoys at present visiting New Zealand, deferred defending him until the Australian collections were complete. Messrs Sheehan and John 0 Donnell had been expelled without any form of trial and without consulting the Party. The effect on opinion is that South, East and West Cork, East Kerry and South Mayo openly sided. The Mid-Cork Party w'as only kept alive by the American and Australian subscriptions, which were contributed on a total misapprehension. He stated that the League was dying. The administration of the funds would now 7 be investigated by means of Sheehan and 0 Donnell s legal action. Donovanls statements did not deserve notice in Ireland, where he was quite unknown outside two wards of Belfast.

UNITED STATES NAVY. (Received January 12, 8.24 a.m.)

London, January 11. The Uni Led States is transferring four of the strongest warships in the Atlantic Squadron to the Pacific, doubling the strength of the latter.

MAUNALOA IN ERUPTION. London, January 11. ‘ Cables from Honolulu state that Mount Maunaloa is in violent eruption. Flames are visible for hundreds of miles, and streams -of lava are flowing. Repeated earthquake shocks are being felt.

GIFT TO CHARITIES. ' BERLIN, January 11. The Queen of Hanover has left £150,000 to Hanoverian charities.