MISCELLANEOUS CABLES

Press, Volume L, Issue 14902, 16 February 1914, Page 7

MISCELLANEOUS CABLES

(Br Cxble.— Pren Association.—Copyright.) Lord Minto is in a critical state of health.

Applications for inclusion in the oversea party. of the British Association are greatly in excess of all estimates.

The English railway companies hare decided to recognise the National Union of Rail way men.

A. ca-b driver named Harlesden, committed suicide by hanging in London, after strangling his wife and three children.

The Berlin Municipal Council hypothecated £13,000 for the purposes of small loans to citizens in temporarily straitened circumstances.

An anonymous communication led to tho discovery of frauds involving four million lire, in conection with contracts for the Italian Army in Libya.

Owing to an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease 'at Birkonhead, near Liverpool, the exportation of cattle from nearly all Irish ports • has been prohibited.

Inspector Potter, a well-known, police officer, was acquitted on a charge of assaulting a suffragist during the recent disturbance, leaving the Court without a stain on his character.

The King of Belgium is applying a million francs from the special Congo fund to combat sleeping sickness, also 300,000 francs to Belgian missions to the natives.

The Oreova left Tiibury on Friday for Australia with three hundred emigrants and their families.

Starving 'workers in Galicia are rioting and looting the bakehouses.

A Melbourne message says that the interim report of tho Powellising Commission recommends a reduction in the size of sleepers on the trans-AustraEan railway, thus saving £70,000 to £100,000 on the cost of construction of the line. •

At Suva, Levy, a picture show manager, was sentenced to six weeks' imprisonment for throwing atnmonia. and severely burning Arthur Groom, who intervened in a fight between Levy and his brother.

While a wife was visiting her husband in a lunatic asylum in France, the man, during the temporary absence of the warder, drew a long nail and attacked and terribly injured his wife's face. The Court awarded her £1400 damages for the warder's negligence.

Mr R. C. Munro-Ferguson, the new Governor-General of Australia, and Mr Sydney who in May will succeed Viscount Gladstone as GovernorGeneral of South Africa, have been created "Knights Grand Cross of tho Order of St. Michael and St. George.

Frank Harris, a director of "Modern Society," a London publication, who was committed to prison for an indefinite period for publishing comments on the impending Melville-Platt-Lord Fitzwilliaru divorce case, has apologised, and will bo released on tho 34th inst.

' A Montreal messago says that an investigation by tho Legislature finds two members of the Lower Provincial House —Messrs Berrard and Mousseau—wer* guilty of graft in connexion, with the "Daily Mail's" allegations. As both have resigned already, it is understood that no further action is possible.

A Johannesburg message says that the Sunday Observance Commission recommends the cessation of milling at mines on Sunday. It is assorted that til's would mean an immense reduction and deprecation of values amounting to millions, betides a shrinkage in the gold, output.

It is reported from London that in the canteen cases, warrants have been issued for the arrest of Minto, formerly head of Lipton's Military Department, and Ross Nes?, late Lipton's manager at Malta. Minto recently quitted Paris, and Ness is supposed to be in Canada.

Tho lato Sir William Lyne's estate has been sworn at £17.862 (saye a Sydney message), the bulk representing shares in public companies. In his will he directed tho trustees to divide the proceeds of the sale of hie whole estate in equal shares between his wife and children.

A Chicago engineer has planned a submerged tub© railway between Scotland and Ireland, ho believing that commercial betterment would remedy Irish unrest. The tube would be laid ia quiet water free from the effects of wind and wares, and built in short, convenient lengths, towed out, sunk, and fixed.

The King granted a private audience to the Hon. T. Mackenzie at Buckingham Payace on Saturday; ako to the Hon. D. F. Denham, Premier of Queensland. His Majesty manifested a warm and lively interest in Queensland, and revived happy recollections of his visit. Hβ enquired closely into Queensland's progress, and bade Mr Den ham to convey his best -wishes (or her continued prosperity. _