MISCELLANEOUS CABLES

Evening Star, Issue 15075, 6 January 1913, Page 6

MISCELLANEOUS CABLES

Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. A number of warehouses in Buenos Ayres belonging to the Barrara Union, in which was stored inflammable material, were burned. The damage is estimated at £200.000. Mr Rockefeller has evaded the New 3 ork detectives, and his whereabouts is unknown. His solicitors have agreed to accept, service of the subpoena citing him to appear before the Money Trust Investigation Committee. Owing to the stocks of opium at Shanghai and elsewhere, the Indian Government have suspended opium sales until the absorption of the accumulation. This decision will inflict a heavy loss on the Indian revenue. While conveying gold to pay wages, a motor car stuck on a railway ciosshm in England. A train .smashed the car, hut the occupants of the car were uninjured. The gold was scatteied, and 30 sovereigns arc missing. The battle cruiser Princess Royal in her trials exceeded 30 knots per hour. Dr Yorke. of the Tropical School of Medicine, advocates the extermination of big game in order to stop the spread of sleeping sickness. A mysterious Continental airship passed over Dover. Michael Field, a knockabout comedian, who visited Australia as a member of the ‘‘Two Mikes ’. team, and who formerly received £7O per week salary, i.s now earning his Jiving ns a bootblack in Southampton row, London. The enormously increasing trade in bananas m England and Germany is affecting the raising of raisins and Lies.