MISCELLANEOUS CABLES

Press, Volume XLIX, Issue 14824, 15 November 1913, Page 16

MISCELLANEOUS CABLES

■ — ■— —♦ (By Cable.—Preen Association.—Copyright.) Captain Legardo was killed in Franco while aeroplaning. One caso smallpox was reported iv Sydney yesterday. Captain Cecil Lambert succeeds Captain \V, C. Pflkenhnin as Fourth Lord of the Admiralty. Owing to the danger of fire tho use of celluloid cinema films has been prohibited in Paris. The Sheffield' United Football Club has offered the Barnsley Club =v.'2000 to transfer their half-back, Uttley. Ifc is stated that the NorddeutscherLloyd service to Australia will bo didcontinued if Germany does not grant a subsidy. A suni of £1,431 has been raised towards the £100,000 required to establish in London a School of Tropical Medicine. The conference on life-saying at sea has appointed various sectional committees. Tho deliberations are expected to continue for a month. Two inori" in Melbourne, named Cowan and Newell, were sheltering from a storm under a tree. It was blown over and both were killed. Thirty Alsatian students have challenged Lieutenant Forstner to duels, for his offer to his men of money for every Alsatian vagabond they stabbed. King Alfonso and Queen Ena visit the Archduke Frederic in Austria next week. A specialist will attend King Alfonso on his arrival for his ear complaint. Mr l>. R. Hall has resigned tho Solicitor-Generalship, and his seat in the New South' Wales Legislative Council, in order to contest tho Enmore election.