CABLE BREVITIES.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXXIII, Issue 8726, 27 November 1913, Page 6

CABLE BREVITIES.

Miss Maud Allan's first public performance was witnessed by a large and enthusiastic audience at Bombay.

When the Panama Canal is opened the Osaka Shipping Company, Japan, will plan a round-the-world service, via Panama and Suez. . f ; .

■ There are over 8000 people homeless and destitute in Scutari, principally Albanians. The Montenegrin Government is affording-relief.

A corner in the New York egg market forced the price up to 3s a dozen. -Women, organised, and refused to purchase beyond a reasonable' price.

The Swiss Government has ordered the expulsion of Captain Paul Larguier, attached to the French Ministry of.War, and Signor Menozzi, for espionage.

Some difficulty is' being experienced in securing a successor to Sir John Fuller, who recently resigned the Governorship of Victoria. Australian Governorships are not particularly attractive to suitable men. -

At Johannesburg a young woman was found murdered in a garden. The body-was fiendishly mutilated, recalling "Jack the Ripper's"' methods: It is thought that the act is due to natives, at the instigation of a witch doctor.

About 1400 German firms will be represented at the San Francisco Exhibition. The steamship lines will carry exhibits free. The National Committee will ask the Reichstag to grant £100,000 towards the dost of representation.

The British steamer Centennial left Muroran on February 19 for San Francisco, and disappeared. She,has now been found wedged in the ice pack 'near.Okhotsk,(.with her,-^lifeboats missing. There is ; no sign that anyone lived on the ship' recently. The crew of 40 has never been picked up, '

A Washington message says that the State Department has ordered the arrest of Zelaya, ex-Dictator of Nicaragua, wherever found on American territory, on' a. charge of assassinating two Nicaraguans. The order is the result of the Nicaraguan Government's representations.

At a conference of traffic authorities in London, Mr John Burns stated that during the past six years 11,000 miles of streets had been constructed, 75,000 houses erected, and 300,000 acres of rural land absorbed under urban conditions in Greater- London. In the city of' London, £18,000,000 had been spent on highways in 10 years. ,

Mr Thompson, American Consul, addressing -the Sheffield Chamber of Commerce, stated th|t, in anticipation of the opening of the Panama Canal, private and public bodies were spending £11)0,000,000'.. .on improving harbour facilities, making railroad connections, and deepening rivers in connection with seven ports from San Diego to Princoi Rupert. I