MISCELLANEOUS CABLES

Press, Volume L, Issue 14956, 1 May 1914, Page 7

MISCELLANEOUS CABLES

(By Cable.—Press Association. —Copyright.) Another case of smallpox is reported iv Sydney. German officers have been forbidden to patronise marriage agencies on penalty of instant dismissal. Tho condition of the Emperor Francis Joseph of Austria has improved. Forty-eight convicts from a penitentiary at Ariodno (France) have escaped, and are terrorising the villages. Twenty-one have been captured. ' Tho Inter-Oceanic Canals Committee reported to tho American Senate tho Panama Tolls Repeal Bill without amendmont. The Hamburg-Amcrika line is entering tho Australian trade, and has contracted to carry ore from Port Pirio to Antwerp. i Tho Federal High Court has fined George Innos £1350 for making false entries in connexion with twenty shipments of motor-cars. Shareholders in tho defunct Bank of Egypt are issuing writs, claiming damages from the directors for inducing them to take shares by means of alleged untrue statements. The strikers in the building trades at Home have largely rejected tho National Conciliation Board's poaco proposals. The men have already lost upwards of £050,000 in wages through the strike. Tho "Daily Telegraph" says tho Budget is likely to announce important changes in the Insurance Act, including au increase of the maternity bonefits to 10s and 7s 6d weekly during incapacity. A burglar at Krainfeld (Germany) was surprised by tho inmates of the house which ho was raiding. He thereupon attacked them with an axe, killing one and injuring six. He then set firo to tho house and escaped. A "Times" and Sydney "Sun" special service message' states that tho Canadian Government is guaranteeing 45,000,000 dollars for tho completion of the Canadian-Northern Trans-Con-tinental Railway. Frederick- Lee. a well-known resident of Llmarra (N.S. Wales), was found shot through tho heart. The motive for the crime is not clear, but it is believed to be tho result of a feud between certain parties. One Frederick Clover has been arrested on suspicion.