MISCELLANEOUS CABLES

Press, Volume LXVIII, Issue 14288, 26 February 1912, Page 7

MISCELLANEOUS CABLES

* ' United Prcsa Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. Gray has challenged Inman to a game of 18,000, level, for £460 a sidfe. Dave Smith and Jim Clabby fought 1., a draw at Sydney. A-thunderstorm and heavy rain spoiled tho fight. In tho Rugby match, Ireland (a dropped goal, a penalty goal, and try) defeated Scotland (a goal and a try). Sir Melville Macnaghton, chief of tho English Criminal Investigation Department, has sailed for Australia en a health trip. The two Japanese Dreadnoughts, Kango and Fuso, under construction in I English yards, will be fitted with 14 and 10-inch guns, respectively. Eight hundred thousand copies hare been sold of Svon Hedin's book, urgi ing the inorease of Sweden's army and navy to withstand Russia's advance against Norway and Sweden. Tho Melbourne Trades' Hall Council carried a resolution deciding for an International Pence Conference of delegates from Australia and Now Zealajul, to bo held iv AJelbourae. In the New South Wales Legislative Assembly, Mr Dacey introduced a BUI, providing power for the Government to ■build houses for letting. The settlement which tho Government proposes to form will now be known as ''Daceyville." A heavy snowfall in Toronto is holding uv> the trains. In Ontario the snow is a foot deep, and exceptionally cold weather is being experienced generally. Telegraph communications are interrupted. Corporal dcs Champes, of tho French Army, who w<ts convicted of stealing a mitrailleuse and selling it to Germany, and who was subsequently sentenced to twenty years' imprisonment, was publicly degradpd at Chalons. Tho mystwry of, the death of eight babios at the Brooklyn Infants' Hos- | pital has been Bolved. Winifred Ankerb, I a kitchen-woman, has confessed to the I police that she placed oxalic acid in tho babios' milk botties. Their Majesties mot the warship Powerful at Portsmouth. The lal.e Duke of Fife's coffin was carried to Windsor by train and taken on a gunearria.ae to the Albert Chanel. The funeral takes place on Wednesday. At the Amateur Athletic Association meeting at Melbourne, W. Murray walked ono miio in 6min 22 4-5 sec, a world's record, and three miles in 20min ofteec, an Australasian record. Watson won tho half-mile race in luiin 56 3-10 sec, an Australasian record. Prince Hatzfeldt, the German representative at Cairo, has suddenly ieturned to Berlin, owing, so tho newspapers allege, to frauds in connection with the management of his Rhine , nncf estates. It is said that a member of his stnff, of noblo rank, has absconded with £25,000. In consequence of the failure of the Canadian rail-roads to provide adequate shipping facilities, grain growers aro suffer ng heavy loss. Steps arc being planned to open a new grain route via Vancouvei ■uul the Panama Canal, and i>; is expected to influenco most of the grain traffic westward. The Chamber of Shipping of the United Kingdom, after a vigorous discussion on tiip nliuscß or pra&'iiii picketing, resolved that the Government must deprive Trades Unions of the right conferred under the Trades Disputes Act, of inflicting damage with impunity. Sir Walter Runciman said that although he was a Radical, he strongly supported the repeal of the Act. At the half-yearly meeting of thr Broken Hill Proprietary, the Chairraur Announced that the manager was at present in Europe collecting informatics, rotating to the manufacture of iron and steel, in view of extending the Proprietary's enterprise. It possessed n large depot of good ironstone at 'ror Knot, South Australia. The Commonwealth's requirements of iron and stoej .ails would bo largo for the next few few years.