MISCELLANEOUS CABLES

Press, Volume L, Issue 14909, 6 March 1914, Page 7

MISCELLANEOUS CABLES

» V (By Cable.—Prew Association.—Copyright.) It is • reported from .Berlin that the Public Prosecutor has appealed against Count Melczwnsky's acquittal. Mr R. L. ("Snowy") Baker atten_!e_ a session of the New _ork State Athletic Commission to gather data with the object of standardising weights and penalties of the prize-ring. A private cablegram received in Sydney from London, announces the death of Mr David i__derson, late general manager of the Orient Company tli Ausj tralia. '-*"""-. A Suva message says that on Feb- ! ruary 25th, an Indian, using n cane knife, badly slashed a coolie woman, who died in a few hours. The murderer was arrested. Owing to the exclusion of frozen mutton from the Army contracts, the Hon. T. Mackenzie has offered to demonstrate to the War Office the suitability of New Zealand • mutton as an Army ration. The Russian Minister of Finance in a statement declares that the alarmist rumours published in German newspapers, have caused extreme consternation on the Bourse. The rumours are absolutely devoid of foundation. Albert Papakura, a son of Maggie, the New Zealand guide, was knocked down in the darkness in the street at Penrith, New South Wales, On recovering consciousness, he discovered I that he had been robbed of race winnings amounting to £20. As statistics show that forty thousand persons avail themselves of the recently afforded opportunity of tram travelling in church hours on Sunday night, the New South Wales Railway Commissioners have rejected the protest of tbe Evangelical Council against the running of the trains. A message from Vancouver says that the leading athletic clubs of the Pacific Coast were represented at , Arthur Cavil!'s funeral. His brothers were unable to attend, and the funeral arrangements were carried out by college students .who were his former pupils. The foreman of the shrapnel tube section at the Putiloff works, Russia, actuated by a feeling of vengeance for a private grievance, killed Captain yon Stp.hl, director of the section, with a crowbar, and then committed suicide by jumping into the electrical machinery. In the House of Lords, Lord Lucas stated that the present establishment of the Regular Army was 10,547 officers and 233.218 non-commissioned officers and men. The establishment of the Special Reserve was 78.714 officers and men, and the Territorials 312.0Q0. A waiter-clerk in a restaurant in Soho, London, was sentenced to nine months' imprisonment for theft. It was stated that when he was arrested Beven other waiters stampeded, not waiting to receive their wages. The restaurant takings had since increased by £50 a week. Dr. Frank Lydston, of Chicago, announced at a meeting of the Medical Association that he had transplanted the generative gland of a dead person to his own body. If the operation proved a permanent «uccess. a" cure had been found for Bright's disease and arteriohardening ailments, due to premature senility. ( In London a young woman named Julia Decies was sentenced to seven years* imprisonment for wounding with murderous intent Basil Pippard, of independent means. They lived together in a West End flat for years. On returning from supper one night she shot Piffard. who wa9 in bed, permanently injuring the sight of one eye, because he stated he might go to Paris with another woman. Mrs Flora Kerr, a resident of Auckland, who. with her son, was staying at Darlinehurst. Sydney, died in a hospital of the effects of poison. Deceased, ■whose husband is a patient in the Auckland Hospital, had been depressed for some months. She was found on Friday last struggling in bed with a bottle of poison beside her. She left the followin'* note: —"God alone knows the trouble I have' had. Take care of the Boy; he is worth it!"