MISCELLANEOUS CABLES.

Evening Star, Issue 14635, 3 August 1911, Page 9

MISCELLANEOUS CABLES.

Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. The Surveyors’ Conference (London) report states that it is essential to form a central board, consisting of representatives from overseas, from fho Institution of Civil Engineers, tlTo Ordnance Kurvoy Institution, and the Colonial Office, for the purpose of maintaining the examination standards, also that tho hoard should meet quadrennially. The Canadian cruiser Xiobe. which was stationed at Halifax (N.S.), is in danger of oinking. The salvage stcamem are unable to cope with the rising water in her holds. The London shipowners are ready to submi; the deckers’ dispute to arbitration. Napier, an aviator, on a Bristol biplane, r.nd when carrying tt passenger, was dashed to the ground by a gust, of wind as lie, was descending at. Brc jkl.mck?. The engine struck and killed Napier, hut the passenger escap'd wil!i a severe shock. A in.:gc i i otii Add is-Abel ia (Abyswinia) state;.. Gin TO r,:us of gunpowder exploded at, the railway work.- at Diredaona, killing eight, and injuring many persons. One bundled and fitly-eight, babies died in London in a. week from enteritis, owing to the intense near. The Royal KuGiam. Hotel at Pyrmont (Berlin) was (letiroved by fire, the damage being £1:16.000. Ii timin' dr. of soanttiydolhed visiturs in cl to mako their escape in the middle of the. night. Tho fire was duo to spontaneous combustion among some fireworks that were siored in a mud, bath. Madame Moroadt , wb ) has died in fit. Petersburg at. the age <;f 84. loaves a fortune of £8.000.000. She wan the owner of the largest cotton-mills in Russia,