CABLE. NEWS

Bush Advocate, Volume XXI, Issue 94, 19 October 1908, Page 2

CABLE. NEWS

Press Assn — By telegraph — Copyright

LONDON, Yesterday

Mr Sydney Baxton, PostmasterGeneral, replying' in the House to Mr Henniker Hcaton, regretted that Canada and Australia did not participate in the Imperial postal order system. He was Tin able to reduce the charge of postcards to the colonies.

The Royal College of Surgeons has resolved to allow women to compete for surgical' and 'dental diplomas.

Archbishop Cany in inaugurating a conference of the Catholic Truth Society at Dublin, traced the growth of. the Catholic Church, in Victoria. He described the astounding progress of Catholic education against great opposition. Cardinal Logue and Archbishop Healy participated iii the conference.

Tho Australian Mortgage, . Land and Finance Company report shows a profit of £171,079. A dividend of 10 per cent, and a bonus of 3£ per cent, is recommended; also £106,079 to bo carried, forward.

Departures. — Araira, for Lyttleton ; from Antwerp, Nal, for Auckland. The death is reported of Father Ignatius, aged 71.

In the House of Commons, during the discussion pi" ' the Licensing Bill to-day, Mr Victor Grayson created a scene by insisting on speaking to the question of unemployment. v He 'refused to obey the Speaker and was named and suspended. He left the Chamber amid great disorder.

Mr Haldane, speaking at Caterham, said the Territorials now numbered 200,000, and recruiting was steadily proceeding. The army was never more effective.

JVlr G. G. Murray has been appointed regius processor of Greek at Oxford. - „

The Daily Mail states that the cotton strike has idled 400,000, and has caused the loss of £3,500,000.

Mr McKenna, speaking at Glasgow, said the colonial empire had no certain connection with Great Britain except through British naval predominance. The navy must be maintained strong enough tto ensure absolute security. It would be better for them to" throw in a small percentage for greater security.

Forest fires destroyed a culvert, derailing a train load of fugitives from Metz to Michigan. The wreckage and piles of railway sleepers fired. The men fled in a panic, leaving the. Avomen and children. Fifteen charred skeletons have been, found. The fireman took refuge in the engine, and was boiled to death.

BERLIN, Yesterday

The British balloon Banshee won the Gordon-Bennett race. German and British wai-sl^ps are searching in the North Sea. for the missing bal-

loons

__ An army aeroplane at Aldershot fell 20 feet by experimenting, and was wrecked. Colonel Cody was thrown out unhurt.

NEW YORK, Yesterday

President Roosevelt, after his African trip, visits England early in 1910, his wife joining him at Khartoum.