MISCELLANEOUS CABLES

Press, Volume LI, Issue 15243, 3 April 1915, Page 10

MISCELLANEOUS CABLES

(By Cabk-7-Press Association.— Copyright.) Sir Ronald Alunro Ferguson, speaking at the Royal Show luncheon at Sydney, said that- owing to tlie drougnt fodder wa s almost exhausted, whicll meant .a widespread calamity to stock. Telegrams received at Perth from Broome report an aboriginal tragedy at Turkey Creek. Six ulacHs were shot, and the bodies burned. Black trackers shot and wounded two natives who were endeavouring to escape. A Sydney message says that the delegates of the Workers' Education Association, in their report ou their NewZealand tour for the purpose of establishing branches, testify to tho beauty and hospitality of the country, and tho sympathy accorded their movement m the Dominion. Dr. AVeston. Bishop of Zanzibar, hats "excommunicated" the Bishop of Hereford for promoting tho mv. B. il. Strewer to a cauonry at Hereford Cathedral. Mr Strewer is a broiui churchman. Bishop Weston refuses to have any communication in sacred things with tho Bishop of Hereford. It is reported from London that Aliss Freda Dufaur, tho Australian mountaineer, has published a sparkling and sunerblv illustrated book, called The Conquest of Alount Cook. It is acclaimed by the Press as the most fascinating narrative of mountaineerin £ of recent years, and a magnificent ad'vei tiscment "for New Zealand.