MISCELLANEOUS CABLES.

Press, Volume XLVIII, Issue 14347, 6 May 1912, Page 7

MISCELLANEOUS CABLES.

United Press Association—By Electric I Telegraph—Copyright. ! At New York a monster suffrage j demonstration of fifteen thousand i J persons paraded the streets. j The Federal wireless station at I Hobart. has succeeded in establishing j communication with Suva. j Satisfactory trials were made of iho j j two motor'trains imported by Iho Viol torinn Railway Commissioners. A speed j of sixty miles an hour was attained. ; Messrs J. C. Williamson, Ltd., an- ! nounce that Madnrua Melba has agreed , to brinf; another grand oponi com-! pan,y,to Australia- two years hence. ! Another link in the- chain of the old j bushranging days has hr-on snapped by ! tho death of Mrs Lewis, whoso house \ near Bathurst war. stuck tip by Hen i Hall's gang, and three horses stolen. | Blanclwt. a tpj-tor, was fatally shot \ at Paris because he caured the arrest' or Er.r.rt, an anarchist and member <if tli« Bnnnot -ancc. His murderer, who i is known as "Bii!," escaiicd. I Gold and copper have been discovered in a city street in Victoria, a United States town. An entcrprisinc prospector staked out a claim, but t)i<> j city authorities -will ;;robnb!v prohibit > tho < working of it. * | Giving evid«?nco before the Educa- j lion Commission at Brisbane, a:i j itinerant teacher stated that he found ' that 35 per cent, of the parents he had j yisitca unable to read or write, i £>omtf r,( the children were without | any cdiuation v.hatever. ! Father Lk-hp, a retinal Caihoii<; niis-j sionary in India and Japan died sud-! denly at Berlhi. His heirs were a--{ toun-lwl to discover trreasue - 'n an t old c:ics: or" his. Tiiev were valued at , £"7n,C00. and included several hundred i diamonds and other ciems. ' i