MISCELLANEOUS CABLES

Press, Volume L, Issue 14980, 9 June 1914, Page 7

MISCELLANEOUS CABLES

(By Cable.—Press Aasocifttion.-^-Copyntbt-) The Kipg's Birthday was celebrated in Sydney yesterday, hut heavy showers spoiled the holiday, It is reported from Vienna that the trial of ltuthenians at ivemberg for alleged complicity in a Kussopjitfe conspiracy ended in their acquittal. A hurricane, accompanied Jjs- a tidal wave, swept tho Tokulau Group recently. The islands were devastated, and four lives lost, A man named Mazoyer has been arrested in Paris for shooting M. Gourzj, •n whose chop Bonnot, tho motor bandit, was hiding when it waa riddled, in April, 1913. Accounts epeoially kept by twenty dajry farms in Kent and Surrey showed that the average cost of feedmg cows workod out at 6Jd lor every t»erman gallon (llilb) of milk produced. A member of tho Tranvaal lteilwaymon'e Society has recovered £500 damages against Poutsma and the printer of tho "Railwaymen's Gazette," tor libel. According to the "Export Revue,' , German finna subscribed £12,500, emulating a similar Government grant, to enable a news agency to send abroad full and accurate reports relating to .German industry and trado. V The ship 3>algonar, which was dismasted «nd abandoned last year in the South Pacific, has boon sighted near Pitbairn Island. She is on her beamends, with her rails awash, and constitutes a danger to shipping.

Dr. W. F. Ward, who is retirine from the editorship of the "Sydney Daily Tolcjfjranb," was tho jiuest of tho directors and staff at a farewell dinner on Saturday. Mr D. J>. Braham, formerly foreign editor of the London "Times," who succeeds Dr. Ward, was accorded a warm welcome.

Sir J, Criehton-Brown, speaking at Edinburgh, deprecated applying electrical' stimulus to child life, as a heavy price might afterwards have to be paid for any immediato spurt in growth. Boys and girls of a century ago matured earlier than they did to-day. Etonians ab eighteen woro distinctly moro boyish than similar youths 100 years ago.

A supposed burglar was arrested in the servants' quarters at Buckingham Palace. He visited several bedrooms, all of which were occupied. He alleges chat he only intended to prove how easy it was to enter the Palace, despite tho police and military precautions that are bcins* taken on account of the suffragettes. Tho intruder was Harry Pike, an engineer's fitter.

In reply to the request of tho Postal Societies" Conference, tho PostmasterGeneral (Mr C. E. Hobhouse) declinee to establish a committee on which they would be represented for the purpose of dealing with the demarcation of their duties. He animadverts on the syndicalist tendencies of the Postal and Telegraph Clerks' Association Conference