MISCELLANEOUS CABLES

Press, Volume LXVII, Issue 14001, 25 March 1911, Page 9

MISCELLANEOUS CABLES

United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. Sir Edward Fry urges the ratification of the Declaration of London. A Japanese Military Mission will visit Germany in May for purposes of study.

Breguet, with eleven passengers, aeroplaned three kilometres at Douai. The total weight carried was 1183 kilogrammes.

Tho damage through the fire at the Customhouse at Buenos Ayres is estimated at £500,000. Repeated dock fires arc causing uneasiness.

In New South Wales the Orange and Maitland districts are the latest additions to the area affected by Irieh blight.

A cable from Melbourne states that Percy Fynch was acquitted on a charge of murdering Archibald Steane, in the .public gardens last January. The Mayor of Ohio, at the head of a posse of police, surrounded fire safo blasters. Although two robbers were wounded all escaped.

Owing to slackness of trade, many miners in the Newcastle district are unemployed. Strong pressure ie being brought to bear on the Government to provide relief work.

On the strength of legal opi ion the Minister of .Mines believes that it will bo necessary to obtain Parliamentary sanction before he will be able to proceed any further in the matter of opening a State coal mine in New South Wales.

Crowds in various parts of Melbourne gave two women who were wearing harem skirts, and had a male escort, uncomplimentary receptions. Several times the party was compelled to take refuge in an accompanying taxic&b or in snoi>s.

A Sydney cable message states that a fire destroyed Davy and Son's flour mill at Pyrmont. The damage is estimated at £10,000, and is covered by insurance. The mill had recently been fitted with up-to-date machinery. The firemen were greatly impeded by large bodies of dough falling rrom the higher floors.

Mrs Newell, wife of Andy Newell, tho prominent cricketer, who disappeared some time ago, has been awarded £200 damages against "The Sun," a Sydney newspaper; for an alleged libel, in iin article purported to be founded on a letter received by a friend from Newell, in which it was stated that Newell went away for reasons of a domestic character. The defendants were granted a stay of proceedines.