MISCELLANEOUS CABLES

Press, Volume XLVIII, Issue 14524, 28 November 1912, Page 7

MISCELLANEOUS CABLES

United Press Association —By £._c_..o • , ' " Telegraph—Copyright. Tho Federal House of Representatives is still discussing the Referendum Bill. A mass meeting of slaughtermen on strike, at Sydney decided to resume pending tho submission of tho dispute to arbitration. The Metropolitan Electrio Tramways and the London.United Tramways Companies have agreed to amalgamate with a capital of £3,-00,000. • j Mr Justice Neville, says a London ! message, has sanctioned the, reorganisa- | tion or the New Zealand Loan and ; Mercantile Agency Company, Ltd. Tho. Spanish Chamber of Deputies has created Senor Cnnalejas's widow a Duchess and his,children Dukes, with the rank of Grandees, i At Sydney, McCoy knocked down the Frenchman, Bernstein, in tho tenth round, and on his rising again floored him. The police interfered, and MoCoy was declared the winner. Mr Webb, an electrician, was found electrocuted in the Adelaide tramway power-house. Apparently, whilo raising his head, he inadvertently touched an 11,000-volt wire. . A Melbourno message says that Jack Fair motor-cycled from Sydney to Melbourne in 29 hours 43 minutes, tho previous record being 31 hours 19 minutes. Forty thousand people, according, to a message from Madrid, attended the funeral of tho Bilboa victims. The procession was three hours in passing one point. Students carried tho fortysix coffins. ■ . • The Emergency Committee of the French Rugby Union has decided to create special licenses qualifying British players in France, also to notify foreign unions beforo granting licenses to foreigners. ■" A temporary gallery at a theatre in Bairnsdale, Victoria, collapsed, and a hundred people fell. Somo of the audience fled, but a panic was averted. Several persons wero injured, one seriously. A Sydney message sc?s that three groups of steamship owners are challenging tho validity of Mr Justice Higgins's recent award in tho Merchant Service Guild case on the ground that interstate shipping is beyond the jurisdiction of the Federal Courts. In the House of Commons Mr F. G. Kellaway drew attention to tho case of Mr Arnold, the imprisoned editor of tho "Burmah Critic." Mr Harold Baker replied that Mr Arnold had appealed to the Privy Council and the case was being expedited. If tho appeal was allowed Mr Arnold would be liberated until thc case was heard.