MISCELLANEOUS CABLES.

Evening Star, Issue 14575, 25 May 1911, Page 6

MISCELLANEOUS CABLES.

i Tress Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. | ' The Bill providing for a Constitution for | Alsace-Lorraine was read a. second tLine in j the ReichstagThe Kaiser IW arrived at Iris palace at j Potsdam on hii; return from England. ' A naphtha well which lias been bored at | Dajimski. on an island in the Caspian Sea., ! yields 1,000,000 pints of oil daily. I Sledmere, in l r orkshire. Sir Tatton | Sykcss historic home, has been destroyed j by fire. His art treasures, including wine j j Romney paintings, and his furniture were j saved with difficulty. I j The German Federal Council have agreed j | to a Bill dealing temporarily with the i | commercial relation with Japan. '■ | A terrific boiler explosion took place at < a saw-mill at Trundle (New South Wales) J yesterday. Parts of the engine were blown j 100 yards. One person was killed and two ; were seriously injured. j Mr Botha armouncoe, the settlement of I the Transvaal Indian trouble. The eonces- | sions include the exemption from the . thumb-print test of well-educated Asiatics applying for trading licenses. The heirs of tho Russian field-marshal Yon Muennich are suing the Kaiser to recover £4,000.000, the value of the Ruegan : estates conferral on him by Frederick the Great, and since lsp.ved to the Prussian i Crown. j Here Laommlin, an aviator, was killed , lat Si-rasburg (Germany), lie fell from a, j height of 200fi. * j < ! M. Void rim.* is ahead in the aviation | < | r:ue from Paris to Madrid, lie- covered j < I 219 miles to San Sebastian in 3h 43min. | ] The Roman Catholic parochial schools in j Sydney celebrated "Australia Day" yester- | day. The Union Jack was absent from the | ' display of bunting on St. Mary's Roman i Catholic Cathedral. Mr Bruce Smith, a j member of tho Federal Parliament, com- j pared the cardinal's attitude to that of a ■ person past childhood's troubles who was j being asked to forget his father' and mother. j The Co'nniisskmers of the 1831 Ixmdou : . Exhibition have formulated industrial bur- j i saries of £59 to £l5O each lo enable , ! talented science students to tide- over aj. j year or two while gaining experience bei fore securing lemunerative employment in I engineering and chemical works. At pre--1 sent many 6tudents are forced to enter the , teaching profession. The Bjitish Government have made a fiiendly protect against tho refusal of the Congo authorities. k> grant land to British I I missionaries. ■ Yorkshire, playing at Worcester, made i 555 runs, to which Booth contributed 210,