MISCELLANEOUS CABLES.

Press, Volume LXVII, Issue 14029, 28 April 1911, Page 7

MISCELLANEOUS CABLES.

United Pr«si Aesociation—By Elwtrio Telegrtph—Copyright. Mr Birley, a New Zealander, has threo pictures in the Royal Academy. Lord Kitchener has taken his seat in tho House of Lords as "Viscount." A pensioner summoned to testify in the Cork election petition committed suicide. The South African restrictions against the importation of English cattle havo been withdrawn. Sir Leander Jameson aiid the Hon.l. W. Smartt have sailed from Capetown for England. Tho death sentenco passed on Senikovitch for the Botirko murder, has been commuted to imprisonment for life. Jeanne Jaggli, the Dutch soprano, has been engaged for Quintan's Opera Company, which opens in Melbourne in May 1912, in 'Tales of Hoffman." The Mooltan has been released from quarantine at Melbourne. Two passengers who refused to undergo vaccination have to remain. Torrential raius at Riachulo Hooded the south portion of Buenos Ay res. Five hundred families are sheltering in schools and churches. Detectivo Burns has surrendered at Indianapolis to a cliargo of haying kidnapped labour men in connection with the Los Angelas dynamite case. The steamer Conway Castle conveys to London from Capetown 231 mammals, birds, and reptiles for the Kiug's collection. Tho consignment is described as the finest ever shipped. It is stated in London that the bull ot tho steamer which was wrecked near Shanghai was insured for £30,000. The losses" on cotton and silk represent several thousands. Mr W. E. Long, of Onehunga, New Zealand, has received a certificate -it the Hawkesburv Agricultural Cohere in the agricultural, dairy, and orchaid sections. Tiie New South Wales Licensed Victuallers' Conference earned a motion favouring the abolition of local option, and substituting License and Reduction Boards. Steiner Morrison, who is undergoing a sentence of life imprisonment for murdering Beron, while beiuis removed to Dartmoor Prison, had a struggle with tho warders at Waterloo Station, but was mastered. '•The Times" says that few were awaro that the two Titian portraits purchased by a Bond street firm were on the market. The purchase will create consternation m Germany, where for a our.rter of a century it has been thought that one portrait would find a permanent home in the Kaiser Frcdrich Museum. The Law Guarantee Trust's valuer, Francis Joseph Ronald, is suing '"John Hull" for damages lor alleged that ho was incompetent, raid that he was responsible i«r several losses which the company had sustained, and for further stating that he had only been apiKiinted btcause lie was the general manager's son. The care i; exciting a great deal of attention.