MISCELLANEOUS CABLES.

Press, Volume LX, Issue 18129, 19 July 1924, Page 13

MISCELLANEOUS CABLES.

The general secretary of the Methodist Missionary Society of Australasia cabled to the Eev. Mr Page, chairman of the Society's mission at Tonga* concerning recent' statements relating to disturbances there, and has received a reply denying the whole report, and Stating that everything is peaceful. The death sentence on George William Auburn, for the murder of John O'Neill, a motor-driver, whose body was found in the Swan river, West Australia, with the head frightfully battered, has been commuted to imprisonment for life. The strike at Morwell (Victoria) has extended and now 600 men are affected. The steamer Arafura, trading from Japanese ports, has landed her Malayan quarter-master at Thursday Island with a mild form of bubonic plague. A strict quarantine has been enforced. e The British Legitimacy Bill has been returned to the House of Lords (where it was initiated) owing to the fact that it had not passed all its legislative stages before the end of the Bession in which it was introduced. The Lords carried the amendment —rejected by. the Commons —excluding from the operations of the Bill children, one or both of whose parents was married to someone else at the time of birth.