MISCELLANEOUS CABLES

Press, Volume L, Issue 14916, 14 March 1914, Page 11

MISCELLANEOUS CABLES

(By Cablo.—Press Association.—Copyright.)

The Queen of Roumania has been successfully operated upon for cataract. A Russian Departmental Committee favours the holding of a great exhibition at Moscow iv 1917. Twenty-seven inhabitants of Zabern are suing Colonel yon Reuter for damages for" imprisoning them in a cellar. Switzerland is reverting to a twentyfive 1 franc tariff on frozen meat in April. | The Press Conference of 1915 has been fixed for Ottawa. The Canadian Committee is anxious to secure full representation, including Australia and New Zealand. It is reported from Ottawa that Professor Edward Prince has left for New Zealand to report on the fisheries, at the request of the New Zealand Government. The German Reichstag has voted half a million marks, and will appoint an expert to investigate the oil finds in North-West New Guinea prior to granting a concession for their working. Two Englishmen, Clement Baker, a steward, and Armytage, a cook, on the steamer- Saros, whilst bathing at Adelaide, were carried out by the tide and drowned. Armytage's body has not yet been recovered. The North German Lloyd Company's report states that the company will probably be abandoning its Australian service, becauso large subsidies are indispensable to its profitably continuing the South Sea services. The First Lord of tho Admiralty, Mr Winston Churchill, questioned in the House of Commons, said that no diver had succeeded in penetrating to the interior of submarine A 7, and the cause of her loss with all on board would never be known. Regarding the uneasiness at the reported establishment of the American Beef Trust in Australia, the Hon. J. Cook, 'Federal Premier, says that there is no need to heed the rumours, as the •jrovernmenl is keeping its eyes open. A blasting fatality occurred on the Orbost railway, Victoria. A charge failed to explode, and the foreman, John Carroll, his son Peter, and a third man named Sullivan, attempted to draw it out. It went off nnd killed them all. Portions of John Carroll's body were rouriU two hundred yards away. Panuan statistics show that last year constituted a record in planting and development. Two hundred r»id sixteen plantations were in operation, compared with seventy-six - five years ago. The acreage increased from 4955 to 35,363. including 6256 under rubber, 3057 under hemp, and , 609 under cotton. A resident of London, Ontario, offered to sell a violin for a small sum. The opinion of Kubelik, who was visiting the district, was sought. He declared that it was the finest Stradivarius he has ever handled, and waa worth £7000. The instrument has been sent to England for expert examination. Professor William Bottomley, speaking before tho Society of Arts, described a wonderful series of experiments at King's College for producing bacteriscd peat, which became a perfect manure, absorbing tho nitrogenous wealth of tho atmosphere giving a new stimulus to exhausted soils.