MISCELLANEOUS CABLES

Press, Volume XLIX, Issue 14760, 2 September 1913, Page 7

MISCELLANEOUS CABLES

; » > (By Ceb'e.—Press Association.—Copyright.) Tom Burrows collapsed after 97$ hours' dub-swinging at Birmingham. It is reported from London tbat the Maharajah of Cooch-Behar is dying. Davies, Mr Lloyd George's famous Dartmoor shepherd, has been arrested on a charge of robbing churches at Whitby. Lady Hardingo has received £70,000 for the Women's Medical College and Hospital at Delhi. The ruling princes are the principal subscribers. The proprietor of a publication issued at Manly (Sydney) was fined £2 and 8s costs for permitting an unsigned political article to appear during election time. A Mongolian company prospecting for gold in the Kudur Valley, discovered auriferous ground with two veins, one being extraordinarily rich. A burglar, in a thick fog, broke a jeweller's window in Bond street, London, and stole imitation pearls of an apparent value of £1500. Tho Portuguese Government will pardon all political prisoners on October sth, the anniversary of the establishment of the Republic. A St. Petersburg messago says that it is stated that the final delineation of the Turko-Persian frontier will bo carried out by a mixed Commission, including two Britishers. The New York Yacht Club has announced, that the conditions of the America Cup race are not materially different from those of previous contests. A Melbourne meesago says that Australia has presented a table for use in the Palace of Peace built of magnificent examples of rich Australian figured woods, with symbolic carvings representing the fauna and ' flora of Australia. After six days' fruitless attempts to trace the murderers of a Jewish family of five persons near Kishineff, the authorities utilised dogs, which followed the trail to near-by infantry barracks. The clothing of two of the soldiers was found to be bloodstained, and they con-fessed-to the crime.