DELAYED CABLES.

Bush Advocate, Volume XXIII, Issue 309, 12 January 1912, Page 6

DELAYED CABLES.

ENGLISH TURF. The most successful of the British racehorse owners during the year was .Lord Derby, whose winnings amounted to £33,000. Frank "Wootton, the young Australian, leads among the jockeys, having ridden 187 winners out of 747 mounts. PAPUAN COAL. The coal discovered ■ during the recent expedition to Central Papua has been tested in' London, and lias been iouud to be of excellent quality. EMPIRE'S DESTINY. Mr G. H. Roberts, a member of the Labour party in the British House of Commons, has been telling the Trades Council at Toronto that the workers have a right to control the destiny of the Empire. PANAMA EXPOSITION. Plans have been accepted for the construction, at the exposition in San Francisco, with which the opening of the Panama Canal is to be celebrated, of a memorial tower 850 ft high. With the exception of the Eiffel Tower, in Paris, the structure will be the tallest erection in the world. The tip of the top of the tower will be 1300 ft above sea level. SAVING THE BABIES. The Department of Agriculture proposes to reduce infantile mortality in France by adopting more stringent measures to ensure the purity of the nation's milk supply. During the first half of the present year no fewer than 80,000 babies died in France. BRITISH JUDICIAL METHODS. A London paper publishes an interesting interview with Mile. Miropowiski, a leading barrister in France. She has been studying the conduct of the law courts, and has nothing but praise for the judicial methods ' adopted in Britain. She holds that a woman is best qualified to understand the child criminal, but admits that members of her sex are not sufficiently capable to become judges. THE PROTRUDING HATPIN. The police in Zurich. Switzerland, have declarer'. war against hatpins. These adjuncts of feminine headgear are not objected to if they are of reasonable length. and do not. as the. authorities say. protrude from the hat in such a way as to become "a positive meance to people's safety." Most of the women in Zurich are obeying the official edict against the long hatpin, but the more contumacious of the sex have flouted the order. These persistent violaters of the new law'are therefore being dealt with by being haled before the local magistrate and fined. ABDUL HAMID DYING. Abdul Hamid (deposed Sultan of Turkey), whose condition became so serious that it v.a.s considered advisable to remove him from Salomon to Constantinople, showii no improvement. The doctors fear that the ex-Sultan's days are numbered. OFF THE RED. As a result of George Gray's victory over H. W. Stevenson in the first of three billiard matches, which they arcplaying for £SOOO aside, the sporting papers advocate the imposition of a handicap to reduce the advantage that a player may be able to gain from a long run of red hazards. It is pointed out that the rod ball game produces onefifth more points than top of the table play. PROPER FOOD AND REST. A congress of Austrian women has started a movement which aims at getting the State to ensure to mothers proper food and rest from work. KITCHENER'S EGYPTIAN RULE.

Lord Kitchener is proving more accessible than it was thought lie would he. The British Agent's policy in this respect lias, of course, pleased the Egy- ' ptians, and should do much to overcome any feeling of estrangement, or of hostility, that may have been shown towards him. £8,000,000 OF CHBISTMAS. PRESENTS. There have been-the customary largo shipments of Christmas gifts from the New World -to 1 -the Old. .Not less than £8.000,000 worth of presents is said to have been carried away by four Atlantic liners during the last three or four days, CANADIAN LOANS. The London Observer severely criticises recent Canadian loans. "Canada, as a whole, not merely the Government," Bays the paper, "is overborrowing, and land and other values are all inflated. We are, however, glad to see. a growing spirit of caution, hut some municipalities show something akin to bolting beyond all bounds of caution." A' CRACK SHOT. Mr E. Stead, of New Zealand, has won the £SO and £l2O pigeon-shooting handicaps, promoted by the London | Gun Club. i