MISCELLANEOUS CABLES

Press, Volume L, Issue 15017, 11 July 1914, Page 11

MISCELLANEOUS CABLES

'By Cable.—Press Association.—*Cop**Ti__.t- : A London cablegram says that tha Maori chiefs -will return to New Zealand by tho Otway. A German named Linnckogcl aorojnlancd to an altitudo of (5570 metres, AA*hich is a world's record. Up to tho present tho White Star liners havo terminated their voyages at Sydney, but in future they will continue on to Brisbane. Th© London Omnibus Company is star tioniug a score of intorprotors at busy -treot intersections for tho guidance of foreigners. ....■'*

It is estimated that tho annual loss of : sheep in New South Wales through bad - rajhvtfy transit is 258,43-*,.of a value of £129,213,, « -.: V Anthony Wilding vfas summonod fbr driving a motor-car in a dang-ereus -;• manner at Hammersmith.. Ho Avas :. ordered to pay costs. ' ' Tho Sues Canal .Company has de-" ■ cided, as from January Ist.-next;', to f raise the maximum, draft, of vessels passing through the Canal to 30-feet, r Tho "South Polar Times," an inti< mate l-ccord of Captain Scott's expedition, indicating the warmth and cama-.v 7 radoriethat existed amou-ast the mciii- 7 ; hers, has been published in London. Its issue is limited to 85(*copies. " # ,-. •■ A Commission representative of all the f. States, excepting Tasmania, which does ;v not participate, has. been appointed" tor.; represent Australia at tho Panama Ex- \* position. Mr Deakin is president. '. It is reported from Now York that C; forty convicts in the Blackwall Prison, - mutinied. They hurled dishes and fur-;; niture at the warders, four of whom > wero seriously hurt boforp-the outbreak 7 ' was suppressed. ;-":■ A* London message says that V?Mr v Philip Snowden, M.P., and hia wife• ■•;>■ have sailed for Canada and New -Jea-; - landi whore they will address tonsper--,-.; ance meetings and study social, and . : :"g economic questions. • : "■-.- -.■"-.- v ,^.-'/;4v A representative Church C&uhcfl,eon-. r sisting of members of tho, two Houses i of Convocation of Oantorbury, andy, York, by over a two to ono.majorityj ; granted women tho right to vote ;_-_d "'."-"■•' sit on paj-ochial ; ■ , ; p . The French police havo definitely .:_*-# cortained that i-iorich-_ MdjlrownoAK;=? ; sky's bombs wero intended for Presi^. dent Pomt 4 —-, who is visiting Pontoi-O ?i: next Sunday. Four moro -rro-ts h_ , vO;v been effected. ' -•■■■' : -'- I J'-^i "The coroner found that the- office! ■-:'. in charge of tbe naval pinnace w_»ro*:|ii sponsiblo for tho collision in-Sydtjey Harbour with tho Coombo-' 00:, JUO* . - 9th, through wld-ch. a stoker named ;■ John Groves was drowned. ; s All the t-olcanoe- in the Alaskan '% Peninsula are active. Katmas \js ,' throwing out lava and dust, which ia discolouring tho sea for Hundred- of miles around. Mounts Sishaldin and. Pavlof ar© omitting pumice in .huge .quantities. "' .••;*; ■■:."'•■■.;-' The Marconi Company's net profit for tho, year was £122,00Q, as oompaJcd with £413,000 in the preceding year.: A dividend of 17 per cent, on pr_ereoce, and 20 oh ordinary shares was declnred.;.-.:. Tho Amount carried forward was re- >.': duccd by about 50 per cent. </■■'. Frederick Bradley, wearing tho toria Cross, appeared before the West Ham Polico Court charged with kenness. He stated that he had ••-■ served in tho Boer War. Ho arnvert from Wellington on Thursday, and his money had been stolen. Bradbury was discharged. -: Johann Waltz, a well-known German caricaturist, was sentenced to one * year's imprisonment at _»eip_-ig for in- . citing class liatred and libelling the authorities by means of his Christmas Book for Children, in which fics the past rulers of Alsace at the expense of the present authorities. - ' Thero is a of feeling m Neiy York in favour of Mrs Carmen, who was arrested in connexion with tho murdor of Mrs Bailey, as it is con- -" sidcred that _ho was intimidated by Detective Burns. The sheriff who arrested her wept, and apologised for doing it.

Beforo tho Tariff Commission at Sydney, a witness, in opposing the demand for tho imposition of a duty on pyrites, now admitted freo, . stattd that themanufacture of artificial manures had grcatlv increased in tho past five years: Ho instanced tho fact that a Melbourne firm was soiling phosphates to New Zealand and successfully competing with tho Japanese. 3lr Meek, collector in Papua for,Mr Walter Rothschild's museum, _s vi_i.ting Sydney. Amongst tbe pn-.es he has captured is the largest butterfly in tho world. It is named Tnodes Alexandro, and is 11. inches across tho wings. It is such a high flier that it has to-be shot with a gun. Other prizes aro a pigeon tho eizo of a hen turkey which lives on tho ground.