MISCELLANEOUS CABLES.

Press, Volume LX, Issue 17997, 14 February 1924, Page 11

MISCELLANEOUS CABLES.

The Goulburn (New South Wales) district is being terrorised by an incendianst, who is responsible for a number of destructive fires. The whole countryside has been thrown into a state of excitement "and a large posse of police with a black tracker is searching for the man, who was seen making for the bush.

Tlio annual meeting of the French House Servants' Organisation carrieo a resolution demanding that henceforth they be styled "household employees, 1 ' not ''domestics,'" and that they receive "salaries," not "wages."

Between December 10th and January 125 th the frozen bodies of IUBS children were found da the streets of Moscow. The police have rescued 3795 children from by cold. ,

The proprietor of the hotel at Benmark (South Australia) received a present of 13 wild ducks. He placed them in the refrigerator preparatory to cooking them. They were stolen fro® " the refrigerator, and he reported jtn® matter to the police, who thereupon' laid an information ajjfaimst h»m for having been in possession of game dtjt of season, The result- was tne hotelkeeper was robbed of a luxurious dinner and was fined £2 for owning forbidden game, which he did not powess. •.

The Pr?vy Council reserved judgment ii\ the libel action of Dr. Thompson, of Sydney, against the British Medical Association.