MISCELLANEOUS CABLES

Press, Volume LXVIII, Issue 14306, 18 March 1912, Page 7

MISCELLANEOUS CABLES

United Pries Association—By Electrio Telegraph—Copyright. The Victorian Government is floating in Melbourno a public works loan of £1,500,000 at 3£ per cent. Tho burglars in both casrs in Sydney on Thursday night secured very little loot.

Tho steamer Irishman sailed from Liverpool with 92 emigrants for Melbourne.

In tho inter-Stato lawn tennis competition South Australia defeated Victoria by 14 rubbers to 7.

By an explosion in tho Donctz Company's mine at Itah'a.nka, Russia, fifty miners were killed.

M. Degiers, Russian Ambassador at Vienna, succeeds M. Cliarikoff at Constantinople.

Tho Drapers' Company have given £60.000 to build tho London University's senate houso and administrative offices.

A St. Petersburg cablegram states that a mad peasant at Sliinkursh decapitated his wife and seven children with an axe.

Two of the outlaws involved in the Hillsville Courthouse in Virginia bavo been captured. A woman injured in the fight has succumbed.

Archbishop Wright, interviewed in Sydney, expressed himself as delighted with tho Dominion's scenery, and charmed with the hospitality of New Zealanders-

The National Rifle Association is unable through lack of funds to accept the Commonwealth's invitation to send a team to Australia, but hopes that this will not affect the Australians' visit to Bisley in 1913.

The Right Hon. Herbert L. Samuel, British Postmaster-General, explains that what he said at the Chamber of Commerce banquet was that tho Government looked forward to controlling the cable rat?s and not the cable business

At Telluriado, California, an avalanche caught a dozen miners and carried them down a hillside. Four were dead when dug out. Nine buildings wero destroyed. Several men who are missing- are believed to have been buried in tho ruins of the works.

A Some message states that Eliza Ganeili, a shot? girl, lost a breach of promise suit against the famous tenor, Caruso, on the ground that her honour was intact. The Court censured Caruso's frivolity, and condemned him to nay costs.

A railway section foreman at Atlanta, United States, dreamed that a bridgo collapsed. On awakening ho discovered that the structure had really been wrecked. He gave the alarm, and saved an approaching train from disaster.

There are indications that the commander of the Submarine A. 3, recently sunk, was aware of the danger, and took proper means to avoid a collision, but a submerged block of wood jammed the propeller at a critical moment, and prevented the vessel going astern.

A Sydney messape states thai the German ship D. H. Watken visited Pitcairn Island, which was swept by the hurricaue in September. The islanders have since been ehort of supplies, and a good deal of distress exists. The D.H. Watken left all her spare stores to assist the islanders until a relief ship arrived. Several islanders oesire to migrate- to Sydney-