MISCELLANEOUS CABLES

Press, Volume LXVIII, Issue 14325, 10 April 1912, Page 9

MISCELLANEOUS CABLES

Cnil<s-i Pj-i-.s EI-cUjc Tel.gruplj—t'opyrislit-

The attendance n t the Sydney racej* s Vat, over 40,0(11) on Enster Monday", and at the j_how 77,000. „ In the Rugby match England versus .. {'ranee, p Jaye.| at Paris. England wop h.V 10 points to 8. „// 1,0w,s Vjptoria beat New South U ales by two -"times, the third bein« abandoned owing to rain. Roth the .Emperor Menelik and the impress Taitu, of Abyssinia, are in a critical condition, says a message from "Ad's Abeba. The Canadian revenue for tbe fiscal year increased by 18,000,000 dollars, - the total revenue bein_ J32,000.000 dQlhm, The country's total pet debt • to 350,000,«XHl dollars. i A S. Vf iuey message says that owing to doubts bavin}- been expressed as to the time repot ted to have been regis, 'ercd. m the sculimg match, the hill course ~i three miles "•'"lt be re-measured. •The authorises prnhihted the Holy week proceshiun nt Chiimurca. Portugal. Five thousand people thereupon assembled ip, the church, and seizing fho images commenced the procession. Republicans threw a bomb at them and fired revolvers from windows, willing five and wounding thirty. ', At the Sydney .Show sale., the following prices were realised for draught horses:—o n account of Hotilt and Jons, Feildtng. one each at 70gns and .- 80 gns, on account of Mitchell IJro.s. *>ew Zeiilard. on.- each at 7ogns and Bogus, on act'tnint ol Co_. liiverciti'gill. one at {Uigur.. it, wavrt "f reaction i* now affecting fho women ~t Turkey. Those appear....'j'g in public veilless, having adopted dress reform ~n Ktironean lines, **ero thrashed and insulted. Decrees ' have been passed subjecting women to hues nnd imprisonment for entering i'.uropcan shops unaccompanied.

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