VARIOUS CABLES

Evening Post, Volume LXXXVI, Issue 98, 22 October 1913, Page 7

VARIOUS CABLES

(By Telegraph.— Press Association.— Copyright,) (Received October 22, 8 50 a.m.) SLAUGHTERMEN RESUME WORK. MELBOURNE, This Day. The sheep slaughtermen have resumed work at the old wages, pending an Arbitration Court award. VOTE FOR FEDERAL CAPITAL. MELBOURNE, This Day. The Federal House of Jtepresentatives passed -a vote of £285,000 for the Federal capital. PRESIDENT OF CONGREGATIONAL UNION. SYDNEY, 21st October. The Rev. Mr. Reynolds has been elected president of the Congregational Union. HEAVY SNOW STORM. NEW YORK, 21st October. There has been a. heavy snow storm in Wisconsin. DEATHS OF TWO STUDENTS. LONDON, 21st October. The eldest son of Sir Almroth Wright, M.D., while cleaning a revolver at Trinity College, Dublin, fatally shot himself. Another student of the college, Charles M'lvor, the Rugby international three-quarter, died from concussion of the brain, received during a practice match. ENTERING THE AUSTRALIAN TRADE. SYDNEY, 21st October. Confirmation has been received of the report that_ vessels of the HamburgAmerika Line axe entering the Australian trade. The first of the fleet cargo-carriers will reach Sydney at the end of the present year, or early in the new year. (Received October 22, 11 a.m.f , LONDON, 21st October. The Shipping Gazette states that a Stettin Traffic Compnny has been formed to carry out a cargo steamer service with Australia. It is believed the Hamburg-Amerika Company is backing the concern. EXCEPTIONALLY HOT. SYDNEY, 21st October. The weather is exceptionally hot for bo early in the year. Ninety-two degrees was registered in the city, the highest October reading since 1910. (Received October 22, 11.5 a.m.) EX-KING OF PORTUGAL'S WIFE. BERLIN, 21st October. Ex-King Manoel's wife has recovered. Both have gone to Sigmaringen. MINIMUM WAGE FOR BAPTIST MINISTERS. LONDON, 21st October. Mr. Lloyd George, Chancellor of the Exchequer, ** Heading the Baptist campaign to complete the quarter, of a milhon ( Minimum Wage for Baptist Ministers' Fund before the spring assembly. One hundred thousand pounds is still required. LONG AERIAL FLIGHT. PARIS, 21st October. M. Dancourt, with M. Loux as a passenger, has started to fly from Paris to Cairo, via S^haffhausen, Vienna, Turkey, and Jerusalem. DEATH IN A WINE VAT. PARIS, 21st October. .t. t A girl working in a wine vat at Correze was asphyxiated by the fumes. Four would-be rescuers were also overcome Ly tho fumes, and died. AN ENGAGEMENT. BERLIN, 21st October. Lord Redesdale's son John is engaged to be married to Fraulein Friedlanderfuld. the only child of Berlin's Coat King, whose fortune is five millions sterling. [The Hon. John Freeman^Mitford is tho fourth «on and' sixth child of Lord Redesdale. He was born in 1884.] STEAM SERVICE BETWEEN VALPARAISO AND NEWCASTLE. SYDNEY, This Day. It is believed that arrangements have beeij made for the Knight Line of steamers to leave Valparaiso every three weeks for Newcastle. Mails from Buenos Aires will be railed to Valparaiso. OLYMPIC GAMES. SYDNEY, Thie Day. A public meeting will shortly inaugurate a. movement to raise £10,000 to secure adequate representation of Aus> L tralasia at tjde Olympic Gam« in Berlin.