MISCELLANEOUS CABLES

Press, Volume L, Issue 14983, 2 June 1914, Page 7

MISCELLANEOUS CABLES

(By Cable—Press __t*ocJa,ti-n.—Copyright.) Tho debt of £40,000 on tho V.M.C.A. building in London had been cleared off. Tho two Gorman aviators who were arrested at Plock by Russian frontier guards, have been released. The New South Wales revenue for the eleven months shows an increase ot £1,450,000. ! An important find of molybdenite is reported in tho Bathurst district, New South Wales. Tho unusual sight of a largo moteorito falling and bursting in daylight was witnessed at Narratseen, New South Wales. Immense crowds at Liverpool witnessed tho departure of tho Aquitania on Saturday on her maiden voyage to New York. Tho Belgian' Government is drafting a Bill to creti-o a territorial force, thereby increasing the Army's war footing to 600,000. Thero was an imposing military procession of British soldiery at tho burial of the remains of Napoleon's soldiers recently discovered at Alexandria, Egypt. The London telephone authorities are fixing meters in subscribers" offices to enable subscribers to check the number of calls mado, and so abolish disputed, which are constantly arising. Five cases of. smallpox were reported in Sydney yesterday. Tho medical officials state that only ten per cent, of the people are vaccinated in tho suburbs, where the bulk of tho cases come from. Divorson, a miner, and his wife and four children wero burnt to death in their beds at Dover. Tho cottage was destroyed. Two other inmates were severely injured. A Delhi message says that Mrs Fulham, who wa6 sentenced to imprisonment for life m March, 1-13, for conspiring with Clark, an officer of the Medical Department at Allahabad, to causo the death of her husband, has died in prison from apoplexy.

Train- are being delayed near Mudgee, New South Wales, through a cutting catching fire. Tho cutting passes through a shale deposit, and, as a result or the firo the shale is exuding great quantities of oil, which is ablaze along the creek.

Burglars smashed two cases in tho Army Museum at the Hotel dcs Invalided, Paris, and stole \-aluabie weapons, including a dagger belonging to a former Emperor of China. The weapon i_ encrusted with jewels, the hilt being of jasper and the scabbard of massive sold.

A New York message says that the whaling steamer Herman picked up Captain Bartlett off the Siberian coast, where he wont across the ice after his steamer, the Karluk, was lost. The Herman will attempt to break ■through the ice to reach tho Karluk's marooned crew.