MISCELLANEOUS CABLES

Press, Volume L, Issue 14917, 16 March 1914, Page 7

MISCELLANEOUS CABLES

(By C»blt.—Preie A*eoci»tisn.—-Copyright.)

Three cases of smai'.pox aro reported in the Newcastle district, New bouth Router's Sicily correspondent states that Marconi has successfully tested a new wireless telephone between ehipe. The Trinity College Miisic .Examiner for New Zealand, for 1914, will bo Mr Henry Saint George. Lord Rochdale is a passenger for Wellington by the Maunganui, which. left Sydaey on Saturday. A Sydney message says that Mr Graham, a London journalist, succeeds Dr. Ward as editor of the Sydaey "Daily Telegraph." ' A New York message says that the steamer Lueitania 6teamed 618 knots in 24 hours on the eastward run—a world's record. M. Albert Edwards, founder of the Pdru, '-Matin, ,, bequeathed £250,000 to Gatrielle Romono, a young actress, and a friend of his late wife. Iwaharra, managing director of the Mitsui Bushan Kaisha Shipping Company, and a director of the Oji Paper Company, has been arrested at Tokio in connexion with the navy scandals. The China Inland Mission Society, London, has received a cable message etating that the Lagerguist family end other missionaries who were threatened by the "White Wolves" are safe. The British Insulated and Helsby Cables Company has secured a contract at £300,000 to supply the overhead electric equipment for the Melbourne railways. The engagement is inncu&oed from Washington of Mr William McAdoo, Secretary of the Treasuiy, to Miss Eleanor Wilson, the President's youngest daughter. Two big New York department etoree. owned by Henry Seigei and Jtrank Vogel; wno have been indicted for financial irregularities, have been closed, throwing iJpOO sales girls idle. Mr P. A. B. Widcner, of New York, is negotiating witb Lady Sackvilie tor the purchase ot the remainder of the Wail-leu collection, lor which he has offered £800,000. The Ventura sent a wireless message to Sura at 5 p.m. on t riday that sne was hove-to in the hurricane at about the same position a≤ when ahe first reported. Ihu weather was moderating. The United States Government is bringing an action against the Standard Oil Trust- of California and nineteen other companies to regain possession of Californian oil land worth £2,000,000. A cablegram from New York save that a message from iitefansson brought by trappers from Macpherson, states that he believes that the Kcrluk is on a polar drift, and he has grave tears as to her fate. While the wife of M. Hr.rtog, a banker, was attending a theatre in Paris, £8000 worth ot jewels were stolen from a secret hiding place in her residence. M. Hartog* valet has disappeared. At a meeting of the Imperial Mission, a letter from Lord Charles Beresford was received urging the summoning of an Imperial Council of Defence to frame a scheme for the defence of the Empire. The Norddeutscher Lloyd report states that the main Australian line, which, under existing contracts, has not been carried on at a loss, will be abandoned on the expiry of the contracts in September. It is officially stated that the company is likely to continue the service until January. Mr Harcourt, in reply to questions in the House of Commons, stated that .1 native missionary named Judith had been sentenced by the Joint Naval Commission at the New Hebrides to two months' imprisonment for the extortion of money.

The Federated Licensed Victuallers' Conference concluded its sessions at Bobart on Saturday. It approved the principle of monetary compensation from the consolidated revenue to the owners and licensees of hotels deprived of their licenses as a consequence of local option. The next*conference will be held at Wellington in 1915.