MISCELLANEOUS CABLES

Press, Volume XLVIII, Issue 14475, 2 October 1912, Page 9

MISCELLANEOUS CABLES

United Press Association—By Electria Telegraph—Copyright. Twelve Italian warships, with a transport, are cruising off Haifa, in Syria, according to a Constantinoplo message. The Admiralty has ordered four light armoured cruisers from the Vickers Maxim and Beardmore yards. Altogether 2215 London doctors have resigned club practice as a result of the Insurance Act. In tho tug-of-war contests in Sjdney. New Zealand beat Syria after a hard pull. Barry and Durban have signed articles for tho championship of the world, to be rowed in England, for £500 a-side. In tlie New South Wales Assembly tha third reading debate on the Meagher Bill was unfinished, o w i Q g ™. the time limit on private members" night. . . . ■;.■■■;'-. i mobilisation of the troops in Poland is merely a test. No horses are mobohsed. Tho mobilisation was arranged last spring, and is confined to two Vistula forts. A Sydney message says that Chidley has been released from tho asylum under a guarantee, backed by two prominent citizens, not-to expound his theories in public places. <or to walk the streets in abbreviated costume. Prince George of Bavaria is selling his palace at Munich because his wife, the Archduchess Isabella Marie of Austria, left shortly after their marriage in February, on account of precedence, being given to members of the Bavarian royal family. Tlie Rev. Mr Goldio reports from Bambatana, Solomon Islands (says a Sydney message), that there is trouble amongst tho nativos, jind that seven persons have been killed within a few miles of the mission station. The Commissioner has sent police to protect the missionaries. The Federation of Workmen at the French Government Powder Works has issued a statement asserting that there is still 800,000 kilogrammes of old powder in store, and protesting against the possible adoption of nitro-glycerine. which they say has a most deteriorating effect on guns. In consequence of Sir George Reid's efforts to secure tho correctness of items in English school-bcoks relating Ho Australia, the Cambridge University Press will submit to Sir George Reid proofs of a geography book to be published shortly, and also a series of geographical readers. . . . It was reported last month that the Baroness van Boren, a wealthy Dutch orphan, had been abducted and immured in a Belgian asylum, at the Instigation of her relatives, because sho wished to marry a coachman. Amessago from Brussels states that she has escaped from the asylum, and is supposed to have eloped with her lover. The Victorian Presbyterian Assembly carried a motion condemning tho proposal to give the maternity allowance in tho case of illegitimate children, as. dangerous to morals, and tending to the ignoring of tho importance of marnage : with an additional clauso that if f bonus is given to unmarried mothers it should not be given directly, buT should be used for their assistance fay suitable agencies.