MISCELLANEOUS CABLES

Press, Volume LXVIII, Issue 14307, 19 March 1912, Page 8

MISCELLANEOUS CABLES

■ ■■- ■ ■■♦ United Press Association—By Electrio Telegraph—Copyright. A- fire seriously damaged the Geelong WToollen Mills (says a Melbourne message). Tho Federal Parliament (says a Press message from Melbourne) has been prorogued till May Ist. Tho West Australian Government is issuing £500,000 of inscribed stock bearing 4 per cent, interest. A Tokio Press mcesago states that the keel of tho battleship Fuso has been laid down at Kure. Tho Sydney police havo mado ten arrests in connection with tho rocent burglaries by masked men. Bosch has been ordered to be extradited for receiving jewels belonging to the Dowager Queen of Siam (cays a messago from London). The revision of tho South Africantariff is unlikely, owing to divergences in tho Cabinet over the report of tho Commission. The owners of plantations: in Papua intend to import Javanese labour (says a Sydnoy message), as thero ie ihsufncient native labour offoring. The International Polo Tournament at San -Diego has concluded, saye a Press messago from New York. Canada defeated England by four and threequarter points to four. A taxicab at Farnborough, England, dashed , into a company of infantry which was engaged in night op# 4 ations. Many men wore severely cut, and two are in a critical condition.. Upwards of 500,000 people visited '•The Miracle" at the Olympia during the run of. tho production (says a London message). Saturday night's was- the closing performance. Ransford states that the reason he does not accompany the Australian cricket team to England is because he could not honourably do so unless the whole of tho six dissentients are similarly treated. Benjamin Buck and Charles Buck, printers, and Bowman,. a journalist, havo been committed for trial on ft charfio of publishing seditious matter in the "Syndicalist" (says a London message). Mr Beeby announced that tho New South Wales Government found it could not construct tho' necessary railways under the present conditions of tho labour market, and had decided, therefore, to import 2000 English navvies and bridge carpenters. A corporal and two soldiers at Mulhoim surprised tlireo burglars in a canteen (says a Berlin messago). After showering bottles, glasses, and plates on the soldiers, ono man surrendered, but the others decamped, and, paving no attention to the summons to halt, wero shot dead. The Court of Aldermen has decided (says' a message from . London) that Sir , Thos. Brooke-Hitching is unfit to be an Alderman. Ho was recently elected for the Farringdon ward. Sir Thomas is accused of speculating in the shares of a company which the vestry, of which ho was a member, intended to acquire '