MISCELLANEOUS CABLES

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 13907, 5 December 1910, Page 7

MISCELLANEOUS CABLES

'•• United Pirn Association—B.r Electrlo Ttldgriph—Copyright. The . Boyal. Society has awarded Madame Curie the co-discoverer ofradium, the Albert Medal. ' ' Sir Ernest Sbackleton's .ship Nimrod, which was offered for sale at auction, Vei withdrawn at £2975. The.ro are extensive and seriotin floods 'in the valleys of the Thames and Trent and! other rivers. " The cruiser Gibraltar, with relief crews for the Australian station, has arrival at Sydney. A. scarcity of farm labourers is causing cane farmers in New South Wales j to fwtrirt the areas planted. : Oiio hundred and ninety-four students of both sexes havo been sentenced to frost one to three months imprisonment .At Moscow., for demonstrating against the death penalty. -_ In connection with the taking of the census in Borlin, tho police searched 115 districts in the early morning for vagrants, and found only ninety homeless persons .in the whole district. ■Mr. J. Henrj-j the woll-bnown Eng» Jish oil oxnertt will visit New Zealand; tho United St&tes, and the Far East, in ih& interests of the Colonial Oil Comnany.. Daring the week ondod Thursday ■many earth tremor* were recorded in Sydney." ' On Saturday week the Melbourne' seismograph recorded theseverest tremor that has ever affected the instrument. ._ ' ' j Ciutuet; the aviator, rose at the. Austral meeting in Melbourne, bilt tho wind caught hi* andjdashed it on to an asphalted tennis <iourt. The fall completely smashed tho machir.e, but Cuguet was uninjured. j The British Licensed Victuallers' ! Protection Society estimates the license -duties to tho end .of October at i £1,061,763, which i» four times the amount that would have,been due on ;tbe old basis. In consequence of a violent gale in ihe'fiea of Azov (Russia) the water re- . ceded three miles, and a number of ships were stranded. Their crews were .unable to land, and are without food. ' Many fishing-boats were wrecked and { : houses washed away. A New York message states that the town of Coppprhill, in Tennessee, is burning. One street has already been destroyed. The loss up to midnight of , the 3rd. was £20,000. No lives have ■been- lost. Mr Emil Dumas, who acted as war correspondent for "Tho Times" in India and South Africa, has died at "Washington. He was found overcome in thttcity streets in October last. He refused to reveal his identity. Mr Bnmas founded the Manitoba Agricultural College. The verdict at the enquiry into, the Whitehaven coalmining disaster in England stated that the disaster wan due to the explosion of gas and coal-dust ronabined; there was insufficient evidence to show whether this was dne to » defective safety lamp. The closing of th» pit was a rightful expedient, as there wae no possible means of reaching the entombed men. . " "