CABLE BREVITIES.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXXIII, Issue 8724, 25 November 1913, Page 6

CABLE BREVITIES.

Farry swam 68 yards in 33 2-ssec at Sydney—a:, record. One case of smallpox "was reported in Sydney yesterday. ' ■. . Under the' Powers' initiative, tho'\ <-iaas will formally elect the Prince ,of . Wiecl King of Albania in December. ' It is officially skated that King Ferdinand of Bulgaria returns to Sofia within a fortnight. : / , . . A total of £2975 has; been • added to the Senghnydd disaster fund as a •re-j .suit of the exhibition of Prince Arthur cf Connaugiit's wedding gifts. I Admiral Emsmann explains . that jwh'eiess telegrams, not telephone message:^ were exchanged between Germany' and America by means of the •Golclsehinidt system. .. : I Bishoptliorpe, near Goulburn, the, residence of Bishop Barlow, was de- j wtroyed by '.lire. The building was an J ■historic one, and contained many yalu- j ab.'tt historic relies. The damage is-j estimate-el at £10 ..000. . ! Herbert Holford, an antique dealer ■of ,-Shaftesbury Avenue, London, has hi'en sentenced to five years' penal jsan'itud©" for receiving stolen property.' Detectives gave eyidnce that he was connected with 17 robberies, and employed workmen to erase crests and monograms from stolen silver. Dean Henson, of Durham, refused to .s;gh a protest promoted by the Bishop oi Kensington against the forcible feeding of women.- He declared that it was unworthy of al good Christian to embarrass the- Government in suppressing crime when confessedly they' .were unable to suggest any better i course. At the horticultural show an entirely new begonia was exhibited. It is of bright colour, rose carmine class, secured by a cross between summer! and winter plants. - 1 President Taft predicts disaster to! American rule in the Philippines. The natives regard the. promises of' selfgovernment literally, v and expect im-. mediate fulfilment. ,If there should lie'a capitalist war in Mexico it would : be no glory to anyone, especially j the! iJnited States, and would be* enor-

inously more expensive in .liyep . ?aml

money than was the conquest of the Philippines. . " •.■■•■■:*

Many foreign bishops have applied to the Vatican for instructions whether

to condemn the tango. The Pope re.ferred the application to the Congregation "of Sacraments, which is collecting the opinions of prominent theologians. "Meanwhile bishops have been instructed to use, their own discretion to tolerate or prohibit the dance. A London firm was fined £50 and. costs for printing ■sweepstake booklets, and failing to place its name thereon. The prosecution stated tliat defendants •w«re liable, to fines amounting to, :£187,000. London is flooded with! lottery circulars in connection with sweeps promoted in Switzerland, the; majority being fraudulent. ! The police are searching the SouthWest of London' for a distinguished-' looking middle-aged New Zalander, I who is accused of defrauding an Edin-1 burgh widow of £300. They became acquainted through a matrimonial agency, and he frankly, told the widow that.he wanted money to develop a New Zealand mine. The widow raised they money on her life policy,, and paid, over the amount under the idea .that it would B*e utilised for the., '.purchase of .machinery..'The' man then disappeared. •