MISCELLANEOUS CABLES

Press, Volume LI, Issue 15246, 7 April 1915, Page 10

MISCELLANEOUS CABLES

(By Cable.—Press Aajoeiation.—Copyright.) The Hundred Miles Motor Cycle Championship of -New South Wales was won by J. Booth, of Victoria in - lhr. SOmin 30sec. -. M r A A. Winslow. the United States Consul-General to New Zealand, arrivl£d at Sydney by the Ventura from I iSan Francisco. , lt n is reported from Brisbane that Air Paget ha s returned to tho Ministry. OoJonei Rankin has been appointed Minister of Railways,, and Mr Douglas I honorary Minister. Heavy rain fell in Sydney all day yesterday, and at 9.45 p.m. showed no ' signs of clearing. It was widespread, ' and will bo of immense benefit to the i country. ■ "A message from Hobart says - that the air-compressing, plant- "at the . Mount Lyell Blocks Mine ha s been destroyed. The damage is estimated at £3000. Twenty men hay© been ren- : dere<l idle as a consequence. During heavy weather last Friday, Mr Moller. a passenger by the Ulimaroa from Wellington to Sydney, -was washed overboard. The steamer stopped for an hour, but all efforts to save him were \ unavailing. s At Sydney. the second annual confer- < enco of tlie Catholic Federation dis- i cussed the New Zealand Federation's < .-juggostjon of joint action to prevent tho ! distribution of indecent literature The '" Now- South Wales branch has success- I rully combated such distribution, and is ] also .preventing th 0 screening of obiec- < tionable films. - A message from New York say s that 1 tho Court h as appointed M r Franklin « vice-president of the International* c Mercantile Marino Company, receiver t V'Zu 1 ?- is understood t tuat this i 8 merely a preliminary step < to. reorganitation". Tho Mercantile. s Marin 0 hold.-, all the shares in the i White Star Line and i_ largely in--crested _n other Atlantic companies.