MISCELLANEOUS CABLES.

Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18400, 5 June 1925, Page 9

MISCELLANEOUS CABLES.

A Sofia cable states that WanefT and Borcff, cx-mcmbers of Stainboliski's Cabinet, were shot dead while attempting to cseapc from prison, where they had been confined for the last two

Sydney reports that the Returned Soldiers' and Sailors' Waterside Workers' Union passed out of existence on Wednesday. Since January last the organisation had fought a losing fight against the official labour union, the pressure from whicu had depleted its ranks. Tho Soldiers' Union was formed in 1917, at the time of the watorsiders' strike, and remained in existence after the strike had been crushed. Its existence was regarded with hostility by other unionists, who looked upon it as a strike-breaking weapon. An endeavour was made to close it during the recent waterfront troubles, but this was prevented by tho Premier (Sir George Fuller).

One of Australia's largest rams caught an English carpenter bending while he was repairing a pen at the Australian Pavilion at Wembley. He immediately resigned his job (says a London cable), saying that he was not engaged as a toreador.

A London cable reports that tho jury returned a verdict that the boy, George Jeffery, wilfully murdered Joan Annt'tts. She was found lying dead, with her head battered and her throat cut, in April, in Crowboroiigh, the scene of tho Thome murder.

Speaking at the Education Conference (says a cable from London), Miss Haigh, head mistress of n. Highgate girls' school, snid she had asked a class which problems were exercising their minds. The answers wore:—Firstly, h there an space! Secondly, poopio who spend their Jives trying to bo good do not seem to be very happy; there does not seem to be much fun in it. Thirdly, why with so much unemployment do people lament the fall in the birth rate?

A Sydney cable 6tates that Patterson and Hawkos, who will represent Australia in the Davis Cup contest, are passengers by the Niagara, which sailed at 1 p.m. yesterday.

Ottawa reports that the final results of the Saskatchewan elections show that the Liberal Party, headed by Premier Dunning, has secured 51 seats out of a total of 61, with one deferred. Conservatives, Progressives, and Independents elected ten between them.