MISCELLANEOUS CABLES.

Press, Volume LX, Issue 17986, 1 February 1924, Page 9

MISCELLANEOUS CABLES.

A yourig Paris electrician, after shooting liifi wife dead, was so determined to ■ commit suicide that fie first shot himself in the chest, inflicting a mortal wound. Then he cut his throat with a razor, and finally hanged himself. He had previously attempted suicide by throwing himself under a motor-car. . Sir James Allen has found a number of suitable boys, and is ascertaining how many are agreeable to migrate to New Zealand. The Commonwealth Government has been notified that the Irish Free State has prohibited the importation of Australian hay and straw in consequence of rinderpest outbreak. A London message states that the wool sales were postponed on account of fog. Mr A. Harris, M.P. for has arrived in London, to take up duties in connexion with the Exhibition Advisory Committee. Tho Air Ministry ha 3 ordered the cessation of the tombing of Mesepotamian villages whose inhabitants hat'o not paid their taxes, which it is alleged was only undertaken under pres&ure from the civil authorities. Miss Dorothea Jewson, M.P., who set out to walk to Norwich to address constituents rather than uso a train during the rail strike, arrived in Norwich accompanied by Miss Murray, a fellow-trade unionist. They got lilts occasionally, and used motor 'buses, but tramped the muddy roads the rest of tho way.