MISCELLANEOUS CABLES

Press, Volume LXVIII, Issue 14324, 9 April 1912, Page 7

MISCELLANEOUS CABLES

United I'fes3 Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. A Sydnpy message says that the tram traffic yesterday was a record, L 015,000 psoplo using the cars. A London message says that thc Kaiser has sent a oopv of Ins portrait to tho Staff College at Quetta. A message from Suva says that Tom Hogan, the ox-Australian champion, under tho supervision of a committee, has completed -10 hours' ball-punching, which is claimed as a world's record. _ A message from Corfu says that Hon - Yon Betlimann Bollweg is visiting tho Kaiser to consult him about the struggle in the Cabinet on tho ouestion of naval exonnsioii.

A Berlin message says that Professor Payr, of Leipzig, transferred a picco of a thyroid gland from a healthy mother to an idiot child, who was completely cured in a month. A message from London says that during tho motor cycle reliability trials across Dartmoor, a bull charged One of tho, competitors and lield up twenty others.

A mOssago from Perth says that a lad named Robert Crichton. whilst playing on the dump at Harman's Consols mine. Kalgoorlie, Camo in Contact with a live wire, and was electrocuted, death being instantaneous. A London message states that Liberal churchmen, including the Bishops of Birmingham, Hereford, and Lincoln, and Bishop "VVelden, havo memorialised Mr Asrjuith, protesting against "Welsh Disestablishment. A message from Brisbane says that a cyclono was experienced at Innesfsilon Sunday afternoOn, and twenty a:M a half inches of rain fell. , The telegraph lines -aro down, and particulars aro irtoagrc.

A message from Berlin says that ail Bavarian scholars under 17 years of ago, have boon prohibited from playing football, on the ground that rough and fecklds* play will possibly have a | coarsening effect ou youth. ; A London message says that tho Amalgamated Society of Railwayman has refused the North Eastern Company's bonus of £'60.000 to lower-paid workers, in order thiib the disputed claim for increased wages may remain in abeyanco until the termination of tho existing* award. A London message says it is understood that thero is a small deficit on the English team's cricket tour. The team is roticcnt concerning the Australian split. Warner does not think that England will fall into the error of under-estimating the new combination.

A Sydney meseage says that the examination of tho Killingworth Mine, Newcastle, proved that the Commissioner's theory that the 1910 explosion Was causOcl by a fire in the sealed off portion of thc mine, was wrong. No trace of flro was found there. Work at the mine re-starts immediately.