MISCELLANEOUS CABLES

Press, Volume L, Issue 14971, 19 May 1914, Page 7

MISCELLANEOUS CABLES

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

Fresh earthquake shocks have o<> curred in Sicily, and Mt. Vesuvius is very active.

R. Gould, of Christehureh, and E. Oldham (Eton) won tho Cambridge University Lowe. Double Sculls.

It is expected in Washington that the final vote on the Panama Tolls Repeal Bill will bo taken on May 25th.

A Sydney message says that threo eases of smallpox were reported yesterday.

Sir Ronald Munro-Ferguson arrived at Melbourne yesterday, and was sworn in as Governor-General.

A message from Paris says that Madame Caillaux has been committed for trial on a. charge of premeditated homicide.

Day baking is working well in Sydney. A novel outcome of tho oversupply of bread is that less is being eaten, due to it being delivered stalo.

Several houses in Calcutta belonging to educated Bengalis wero raided, and six of the occupants arrested. A largo number of documents and two guns were seized.

America's greatest advertisers aro unanimous in declaring that firms advertising on a largo scalo and in an original manner, pay tho greatest dividends.

Letters which have reached Plymouth state that forty-five mutinous Peruvian soldiers wero placed on a raft in the Napo river and massacred by ma-chine-gun firo from a patrol boat.

It is officially denied that tho British Government is guaranteeing a £2,000,000 loan for the Anglo-Persian Oil Company, thoujjb tho Government is negotiating for a big contract.

Benromdan Mohammed, who shot his father, a Tunisian millionaire banker, in Paris last October, has been sentenced to twenty years' penal servitude.

The Bankfield cotton mills at Nelson were burnt in half on hour. Tho damage is estimated at £40,000. Tho flames wore visible for ten miles. Seven hundred workers are affected.

A motor-car at Leichhardt, a suburb of "Sydney, knocked down a woman, and while taking her to the hospital knocked down a man. Both died of their injuries.

Tho "Daily Chronicle's" Alexandria correspondent states that a gang of burglars, believed to be Australians bound for England, robbed Roservfeld, a jeweller of Alexandria, of £10,000 worth of jewellery and gems.

Signor Ulivi's electric infra-violet rays, at a distanco of tea miles on the Arno river, Italy, exploded a number of strong metal bombs, containing an Admiralty explosive, sunk in various spots.

Count Ukunia, Premier of Japan, in an address to Governors of provinces, insisted on the benefits of the AngloJapanese Alliance, China would have suffered disintegration if tho Alliance had not existed.

Sixty arrests have been effected in Naples of persons charged with swindling insurance companies by means of simulated or self-inflicted wounds. It is reported that £120,000 was obtained by this means.

The Wheatstone transmitter sent Marconi messages at tho rate of over a hundred words a minute. The London "Standard" states that the Go-vernment-is adopting a high speed system of wireless.

At the request of the Commonwealth Government, the Hon. W. A. Holman, Premier of New South Wales, has offered the services of Mr Justice Street as a Roral Commission to investigate the question of meat and other combines engaged in the export trade.

Tho spy arrested at Hamburg on a charge, ot obtaining portion of the plans of a warship and selling them to France, is Rosa LangsteHi. an Austrian. She fell into 3 police trap, and was sentenced to thirty months' imprisonment.

It is believed in Sydney that tho steamer Cairnhill. which broke her shaft when four days out fr<> m Nauru Island, m the Pacific, is drifting in the direction of tho Solomon Islands. With the captain aro Maxwell and Angus, engineers; Mclvor, second officer; and Stighe, chief steward.

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