MISCELLANEOUS CABLES

Press, Volume L, Issue 15023, 18 July 1914, Page 11

MISCELLANEOUS CABLES

Psy CaWe.— Pxees Association.—Copyright.) Influenza ie raging among tho Natives of Papua. ; nios tho right of ejection. His wifo and family aro unperturbed. Hundreds of visitors aro interested in tho cute. A Sydney lacrosse tenm has boon selected to visit New Zealand at tho end of August. Guillanx, who is making.a flight from MelHourno to Sydney, carrying mails, ;u detained at Harden, owing to heavy rain. ' . Thursday war The coldest day recorded in Nc\v. (South Wales for three years, frosts being severe.and general, and snow falling on the mountains. A keeper at tlio London Zoo, who was ♦bitten by a rattlesnake, was successfully treated at the Middlesex Hospital. His condition was critical for ten days. . At the Health Congress at Edinburgh. Dr. Williamson declared that eighty per cent, of tho cases of consumption occurred in houses of three rooms and under. # . ' Georgo King, a ninoty-ycar-<tld Crimean veteran, refuses to leavo his house at Exeter, despite tho fact that the landlord has removed tho windows. Ho says ho is determined to remain, even if tho roof is taken off. Hβ dcGeorgo Cooling, a pupil of the Grammar School, Brisbane, won Lord Moath's Challenge Cup for an Empire Day eway. John Parr, of the Waitaki' High School, received honourable mention. Mr Ellis Griffiths, TJuder-Secretary of State, Homo Department, sympathetically received a deputation advocating tho appointment of women police; Ho said he recognisf*! that tho deputation represented a great body of public opinion. Twelve masked men at Baker, Colorado, lynched an unidentified man who committed an assault on an eight-year-old girl. The man was taken from the Hardman 'gaol, where the- DeputySheriff was overpowered, and slung at the end of a rope over a canyon. Tho Canadian representatives to tho Australasian team in tho Davis Cup tio are:—Powell, Schwengers, Mayers, and shorweli. Experts consider that the Australasian players am likely to easily defeat tho Canadians. Qiieon Alexandra, the Empress Marie, and Princess Victoria visited tho Endurance. Queen Alexandra pr»>sonted Sir Ernest Shaokloton with two I flags and a silver medallion of St. | Christopher, which will li& the mascot of tho expedition. • Tho terms of tho Hraxilian five per cent, loan guaranteed upon tho Customs, have been agreed upon with London and Continental bankers under tho leadership of tho Rothschilds. Twenty millions will bo issued immediato.lv at 90-91. ami tho remaining £5,000,000 later.