CABLE NEWS IN BRIEF

Evening Post, Volume CXIX, Issue 71, 25 March 1935, Page 5

CABLE NEWS IN BRIEF

SINGAPORE BASE PROGRESS. Mr. Euan Wallace, speaking on the vNaval Estimates, said that the work on the Singanore case was going on steadily according to plan. The graving dock should be ready to function in September 1937 and the whole base' would be ready in 1939. FOUND PDEAD IN HUT: James O'Neill, aged 57, un-\ employed gardiner was found, dead in a lonely hut at Asquith, an outer northern' suburb of Sydney to-day with two terrible wounds in the head. Apparently he was murdered, as the police found signs of a fierce brawl in the hut, which was littered with broken crockery, and blood was everywhere. CHILDREN OF WAR.VICTIMS. A report issued by the Pensions Minister on the provision made for the children of officers and men killed or disabled in.the Great War, reveals that about 1,750,000 children have passed through the hands of the Pensions Ministry during the last 18 years and some £132,000,000 has • been spent on their care, maintenance, education and training for employment : ' YACHTSMEN ATTACKED. Mr. Cornelius Vanderbilt Junior's book, "Farewell to Fifth Avenue",: declares: "The America's Cup races have convinced me that there is no sportsmanship .among yachtsmen. Undoubtedly my cousin fouled Sopwith in the third race." The book vitriolically attacks the snobbishness of American sofsietv. SCIENCE IN BUSINESS. The aixtn International Con&resa for Scientific Management in Business will be neld in London next July under tne patronage of the prince of Wales witn the prime Minister as Vice-i'atron./; Tne Congress will be opened by tne prince of,Walesa in_tne Central Hall, Westminster, and tne problems ofjgood management in business of all kinds and all the various* pnaises of industrial organization will be exhaustively discussed in the course oi the meetings. lfore\than 300 business heads from many countries have already to participate in the Congress. MEDICAL SERVICE. Following a long battle with the honorary medical staff the Queens?' land Government, with the concurrence of the British Medical Association, has decided to end the honorary system of medical service at the Brisbane General Hospital and has decreed that f the sick and poor should be able to command the> services of leading physicians, surgeons and specialists which have teen made possible by substantial profits from the Golden Casket Lottery. DH...TILLYARD AWARDED MEDAL. Dr.R.J.Tillyara, formerly Entomologist to the Commonwealth Government, has been awarded the Yon Mueller medal for outstanding scientific work in Australia. His v/orks on "Insects of Australia and New Zealand", "Biology of Dragon Flies" and "Wing Venation of Insects" are regarded as notable achievements.GUNMEN IN DUBLIN. Sergeant LocJdiart and Constable O'Leary, both in uniform, were patrolling Grafton Street Dublin, shortly before midnight when gunmen fired from an alley near tne Gaiety Theatre. Both were wounded and conveyed to hospital. The gunmen escaped. j*Tneir