LATE CABLE NEWS

Waikato Independent, Volume XXIII, Issue 3075, 26 June 1923, Page 5

LATE CABLE NEWS

THE DAVIS CUP AUSTRALIANS AT VICTORIA (By Cable —Press Association). (Received .10.30 a.m.) VICTORIA (8.C.), June 23. The Australian team to compete in the Davis Cup contest has arrived here. All are well except Anderson, who has been under the doctor's care for a. slight ailment. He will be quite well in a day or two, but: because of liis in disposition tin? team was unable to play an exhibition match at Victoria to-day. It intends to practise at Vancouver on Sunday.

ANTWERP WOOL SALES SMALL CLEARANCE MADE (By Cable —Press Association). (Received .11 a.m.) LONDON, June 22. At the Antwerp wool sales 1376 bales oP Australian were offered, and only 431 sold. Prices for Merinos and lino crossbreds were unchanged. Other sorts were neglected. Bidding was not animated. NEW MOTORING RECORD

137 MILES AN HOUR

(By Cable —Press Association). COPENHAGEN, June 24. Campbell, an Englishman, made a new world’s motoring speed record at the Panoc races, covering 137 miles in an hour.

A MURDER CHARGE

BODY POUND IN PERAMBULATOR

(By Cable —Press Association)

LONDON. June 23

The latest development in connection with the body of a murdered boy found in a perambulator at Glasgow is the arrest of John Nowell and Susan Newell, husband and wife, who are charged with the murder of John Johnstone.

The Glasgow police made a sensational discovery of the body of a murdered boy, aged 12, which was being wheeled in a perambulator through a busy street by a young married woman. THE AMERICA CUP UPTON TO TRY AGAIN (By Cable—Press Association). LONDON, June 22. Sir Thomas Lipton states that lie intends to issue a challenge for the America Cup in .1925 with a new Shamrock, but he has not yet decided anything sis to the designer or the size of the boat.

LIQUOR IN MANITOBA A “WET” MAJORITY f (By Cable —Press Association). (Received 1,0.30 a.m.) OTTAWA. June 24. The referendum in the province of Manitoba on the proposal to adopt a system of Government sale of liquor to take the place of complete prohibition, which is now the law of the province, resulted in a majority for the Moderate Liquor Bill of 30,000. The returns are sufficiently complete to make the result unalterable by the outstanding rural vote. Many women obviously voted wet. Another vote will be taken on July 11 to decide whether beer and wine shall be saleable at hotels and cafes under Government supervision, blit the result cannot, affect Friday’s decision.

, ETNA ERUPTION GROSSLY EXAGGERATED NO LOSS OF LIFE (By Cable—Press Association). (Received 11 a.m.) LONDON, June 24. The Rome correspondent of the Morning Post says that it is now realised how absurdly exaggerated have been the accounts of the eruption of Etna. The net result of the sudden recrudescence of activity is that not a single life was lost, while only four hundred people are homeless. The total damage is estimated at seventy million lire (about three-quarters of a minion at the present rate of exchange). Many of the owners of the destroyed property arc multi-millionaires. The lava stream is diminishing in intensity, and the eruption is drawing to a close.