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Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1407, 6 April 1912, Page 12

Newfoundland shows nn increase of £52,000 in its Customs revenue for the last sis months. Jir. Michael Balling, at present conductor at flic Koya! Opera House, Budapest, has been appointed conductor of tho Hallo concerts, Manchester, for three years bejiinuin? next autumn. This eoiiductorship, left vacant by Dr. Hans Kichter's resignation last spring, is one of (ho most important in the world of l.iusie. Mr. Bulling is no stranger to the north of England. His principal achievr.nrnts there were the conducting of rhe (l.reo cycles of "The lling" of Wagner, given a year ago, when ho won much praise. Jfr. W. Fromlloek. who came (o Britain from the Federated Malay States in an eOort to obtain a reopening of tho case of his wife, who was tried for murder at Singapore in .lime has been informed by the Colonial Ollice (hut no reopening is possible. Mrs. Proudhc-k whs sputeiiced to death for shooting Mr. Steward, n mine nianagcr, but was o'ter-H-ards- granted a free pnrdnn. Mrs. I'roudloeU declared that she fired the revolver in defence of her honour. The i)-v; liPtlonal wiis used at Hip liroat Ormoml Street Hospital for SVck Children (Ivigland) In- an operalion on a girl of ei','ht. who sub'nriuenily died. It w.j« stated at the iiuiurst at Ilolborn (liat Hi:?. n-,i.« the first r.;sc of death reported under its u.=e. It was regarded as nn ideal annesthotie. but tho child's case had U'oa Jiopelc33 from tho first