MISCELLANEOUS CABLES

Press, Volume LXVII, Issue 14159, 27 September 1911, Page 10

MISCELLANEOUS CABLES

United Press Association —By Elect .-ic Telegraph—Copyright. Bogroff, the assassin of the late M. Stolypin, has been hanged. Mr A. F. Bird's gift of his Parliamentary salary to relieve the Wolver- Thampton rates has been declined. Earthquakes in Guayaquil, Ecuador, caused a panic at Riobamba. Numerous buildings collapsed, and a number of houses fell at Guaranda. A London cable message states that flies caused 20 per cent, of \he inhabitants of Great "Billing to be attacked by typhoid fever. The Agent-General has advised the West Australian Government that the steamer Opawa has been engaged to bring the Papanui's emigrants from St. Helena to Fremantle. A stage collapsed in Chaffer'a mine. West Australia. A miner named Thomas Denman was killed, and another, named George McCleod, seriously injured. Madame d'Esturler, the smallpox patient who-art-ived in Sydney by the steamer Varilin Schoten, has succumbed. Besides smallpox she was suffering from a tropical disease, which was the real cause of death. In Sydney the New Zealand Association celebrated Dominion Day by a brilliant ball. There was a large attendance of visiting New Zealandera. New Zealand vessels in the harbour were decked with bunting. A fire broke out in a moving picture theatre in New York through a film catching alight. Three hundred panicstricken people dashed into the streets, many being trampled under foot. No loss of life is reported. Sir Arthur Hardinge and Sir F. Villiers, British Ministers at Brussels and Lisbon respectively, will exchange posts. The change is'due to the difficulty of Sir F. Villiers, who formed friendships among the Monarchists of Portugal; being attributed to a Republican Government. In Sydney the Anglican Synod was opened by the Archbishop. In his presidential address he referred to the general prosperity of the country and hthe Church's steady progress. He returned to the attack on the Royal Show being held on Good Fridays, and said that they must not cease their efforts to create public opinion against R and awaken professing Christians to personal duty regarding it. He adversely criticised the Ne Temere decree, and stated that they should diligently caution their people against mixed marriages.