MISCELLANEOUS CABLES

Press, Volume LXVII, Issue 14000, 24 March 1911, Page 7

MISCELLANEOUS CABLES

United Press A»soci»tio_—By Electrio Telegraph—Copyright The whole of the potato crop from Sydney to tbe "V*iotori**.n border is suffering from blight. Two men alleged to be the' Mount Cuthbert highwaymen were arrested at Donaldson while aslfcep. •Apaches murdered a Paris policeman at midnight in a crowded boulevard., Knives and revolvers were used. One of ihe Customhouses at Buenos Ayres, filled with merchandise, has been destroyed by fire. The damage is estimated at -6250,000. ■ A party of 110 Javanese, including; fourteen women, j»s arrived in Sydney en route for New Caledonia to work in the nickel mines. Nin,e pereons were killed in the Pittsburg and Buffalo Coal Company's mine at East Cannonsburg, through a fall of loose slate. •"**'■ ' Gray, playing Harverson in a game of 8000 up,-level, has scored 4002. including a break of 1202, to Harverson's 705, v-. . . ■.*, Gray fefuses to play with ivory balls before September. An association is -being formed in London, to prevent the circulation of debasing and demoralising fiction. It is being supported by leading educationists . • At Tegucigalpa, Honduras, during a street not, Generals Lara nnd Palma were killed. The riot developed into a pitched battle, and forty of the combatants were slain. , Mrs Ncale, who recently died at Potts Point, Sydney, bequeathed £30,500 to the Sydney hospitals and benevolent institutions, £4000 to the Methodist body, and £1000 to the Bush Missionary Society. Mr Bertram Mackennal, A.E.A., the Australian scuiptor, has been commissioned to design a memorial to King Edward. The central features will be figures of Peace, and of King Edward in the robes of a Knight of the Garter. It is indicated that the meat-packers at Chicago have lost the fight regarding illegal combinations, and must now stand their trial like "ordinary people." Owing to the heavy banana crop in Fiji, arrangements are being made for the Manapouri to resume a direct service between Fiji and Melbourne on May 2nd. An Italian aviator, who was endeavouring to smuggle goods in an aeroplane across the Alps, was discovered at the foot of Mont Corn's with both of his legs broken. He had spent tho night in the snow. A cable from Sydney states that an explosion of the contents of a basket wrecked some refreshment rooms at Nyngan, and injured a woman and a boy. The basket had been lying in the rooms for some time, but what it contained is unknown. A London cable message states that the Chief Registrar's statistics for 1900 show there is an increasing growth of co-operation, representing a membership of 2,777,513. The total assets of the societies are £60,597,446, an increase of £2,250,000 on the previous year. The advance party of the expedition of scientists which is to view the solar eclipse, are passengers from Sydney by the Maheno. The others.,will leave by the Tofua on Tuesday. The Encounter, leaving Sydney on Saturday, will convey the English expeditions to Vavau.