ADDITIONAL CABLES.

Evening Star, Issue 15076, 7 January 1913, Page 3

ADDITIONAL CABLES.

The following cables appeared on December 26, 28, and 30 in Australian papers employing the independent Press cable service: A househoy in Salisbury, South Africa was found to be .suffering from sleeping sickness. Several thousand natives in the vicinity were examined, and discovered to be infected. 'They were all segregated, and stringent steps are being taken i.o prevent the further spread of the. disease. Ihe Mavqms of Arconativisconti has given £40,000 to the University of Paris for the establishment of an institute of geography. liege, the old-world Belgian city, has a parrot that is causing a great “deal of amusements and has also been responsible for an accident. Tire bird is owned by some people who live in a house near a tram car stop, and has learned to imitate a conductor's whistle. While two people were entering a tram, the parrot whistled, .and the driver, thinking that it was the conductor, started the car. The passengers were thrown off and rather badly hurt. A party of 1,500 poor East End children were entertained at dinner on Christmas Day by the South Australian Children’s Sunbeam Society. Mr A. A. Kirkpatrick, Agent-General for South Australia, presided, and the speakers expressed the hope that more well-fed overseas children would follow the example of the “Sunbeams” and purchase occasional meals for London slum waifs. The suffragettes arc going further than ever, -and have committed an act that might have resulted in disaster to life and limb. Two elbow attachments to a- signal poet on the Great Northern Railway main line at Potter’s Bar, just outside London, were on Tuesday night found to have been tampered with. At first the signalman could not make the signal respond, and it was only when he applied the utmost strength to the lever that ho succeeded in showing “line clear.’’ Immediately afterwards another signal went wrong, but this obstacle also was overcome. An examination next morning showed that both signals had been fixed up with strong sashcord in such a way as to prevent them moving. Attached to the, cord was a typewritten note saying: “The only way to stop this trouble is to remove the cause by giving votes to women.” In slightly different circumstances it is very probable that a serious disaster would take place. There is no clue to the perpetrator of the outrage.

Complaints are becoming common in France regarding the deterioration , of the roads. Motorists maintain that the once, splendid thoroughfares are not being paid the attention that they used to receive, and as the petrol tax yields £5,500,000 a year the owners of cars’claim that they are entitled to greater consideration. The Government are promising a special vote. Owing to the difficulty of obtaining a sufficient number of shipwrights for the Chatham Dockyards, the Admiralty lias sanctioned the reappointment of pensioned sexagenarians. Berlin is starting a- campaign against women who persist in wearing dresses”with long trains, and the wearers are indignantly protesting. The police have issued regulations prohibiting, under heavy penalties, women s dresses from dragging along the ground in such a wav as to raise the dust. Ihe British Ministry is drafting a Bill extending the compulsory installation of wireless apparatus to the smaller types of passenger-carrying steamers. A h '! e a number of workmen were demolishing a fourteenth-centm-v house in Rome a shower of gold coins fell upon them. The men took the money and tried to sell it. but it was seized bv’the police, ihe coins were mostly golden ducats. Ihe Archbishop of Canterbury, in a sermon, said that none could deny that there was a. growth among educated and intelligent Englishmen of a spirit which abstained from adequately, caring about what was happening' in the great'fields of public life. The Legislation Committee of the Ontario Bar Association have recommended the abolition of the right to take legal action in breach of promise rases. Ihe Dean of Manchester, addressing a congregation _of theatrical people in 'his cathedral, said that actors made a great mistake when they attempted to become preachers on the stage. On the other hand, he thought that, preachers were wrong to act in the pulpit. The stage, he went on. could broaden the sympathies of the Church, while the Church could elevate the associa! tions ot the stage. They each had inter* ests and obligations for ’the common good of human nature.

Lhe first case in which it tins been reliably established that compacts exist between doctors and undertakers has been heard at Xew York. Dr Ignatz Schwartz and Frank Winter, an undertaker, appeared at the Harlem Court to air their They were arrested after a fight at Winters obituarv emporium. During the battle the medico fell out of a window and landed on his head in a snowdrift. The cause of fh© row was a, demand by Schwartz of £5 from Winter for commission on an embalming and interment job. Schwartz s patient died, and he rushed to the telephone and gave Winter the order. The undertaken paid the doctor £l. and refused to give more. The fight followed. In dismissing Schwartz’s claim the Magistrate said : “ You are a fine doctor—a credit to your noble profession. If ever I bear of yon claiming a rake-off for steering a corpse to the-undertaker’s shop I’ll sool mv dog on you." Mr H. W. Massingham, the well-known Liberal writer, contributes to the ‘Xation’ a_ vigorous attack on Mr Bon nr Law and In’s attitude regarding the question of tariff reform. _ Mr Massingham refers to the strong disavowals which have poured in from Australia, Canada, and Xew Zealand in opposition to the suggestion that the resnonsjbUity of imposing" taxation shall be undertaken by the Overseas Dominions. He regards it as amenace. The ordinary colonial. he says, is a.-simple-minded reasoner, whose reasoning leads him to the view that if invited to have a hand in Britain’s taxing policy the British Government will want to have a hand in his. “ Xnr are these fears foolish,” goes on the writer. “If Mr Bonar Law’s suggestion ever crystallised into a. practical'proposal it would certainly appear as part of a larger scheme of fiscal co-operation for the purposes of common defence and common policy between the Mother Country and the Dominions. Though Mr B. L. Borden (the Canadian Premier) may not have thought so, a. good deal of hard, dear thmldng°is evidently going on in Canada regarding Mr Bonar Law’s raslr ideas, and his proposal to introduce a new and on the whole profitable element is regarded with suspicion. The present attitude of the Empire towards the English Unionist party is one of grave disquiet. Independent Tariff Reformers have succeeded in infusing a separate spirit of hostility into each of the forces whose support of the project they endeavored to secure.”

A horrible Christmas orgy was responsible for a tragedy in a San Francisco lodg-ing-honse. The buildimr was the scene of a fire, and when the flames were subdued one dead body was found, and it is believed that others have been burned. The firemen had an exciting task. Forty of the inmates, nearly all of whom were intoxicated were from the burning house. In another lodging-house fire at Los Angeles five people were injured, one of them, a girl, dying from the hurts she received. She jumped from a. second-floor window. The Hex. Alfred Earle, Bishop of Marlborough, celebrated bis eightv-fifth birthday yesterday (26th). In a‘Press interview ho gives the .following recipe for longevity :—“ Live simply, deserve no foe, find a safe doctor, hut rarely take his pills, work hard, muse much,' encourage lively thought, don’t bother about health have fads, and live in the past as well asin the future.” It is reported from Ottawa that three children have been burned to death owin" to the .decorations of a Christmas tree setting fire. The flames spread to the house, and the parents of the unfortunate little ones were forced to watch the place burning down. They were unable to enter the house owing to the fierceness of "the blaze.

Thirty years ago Hell a Gyllsteoem, a theatrical star in Stockholm, and Baron Taras fell in lovo with each other, and were about to be married. The family of the baron objected, to the marriage, and the lover bowed to the wishes of his parente. The girl left Sweden, and was not. heard of again by her friends. Recently the parents ot Baron Taras died, and the lover, who had remained faithful to the memory of his lost love, immediately set out on a quest to find her. He travelled round the world, and at last found her in Melbourne,'-, where she was living under an assumed name. The couple went back to Stockholm. yrhere they were married. Labor leaders assert that a. strike involving 100,000 workers is threatening, and may happen inside a few days. .As the result of a ballot, lasting five days, among the members of the United Garment Workers’ Union, 35,000 voters declared in favor of a strike, and a. strike committee has been appointed to fix a date. The union's demands include increased wages, an eighthour day, sanitary shops, and the abolition of sub-contracts. Near Springfield. Illinois, four masked desperadoes held up the Chicago express, and after uncoupling the express car ordered the engine-driver, at the revolver’s point, to go on with the team. 'They then dynamited the safe, hut got little spoil for their pains. At Tulsa, Oklahoma, an unidentified negro stopped the St. Louis train and attempted to rob the passengers, one of whom shot him dead. The German Colonial Office has in view a, Fcherno for the employment of aircraftin the oversea possessions! It is considered that airships will he of particular use in suppressing native rebellions. Senator La Follette, one of the leading figures in American politics, said, in a speech at Indianapolis, that Dr Woodrow Wilson would have his support and that of all progressive Republicans so long as he tried to serve the interests of the people. “ I will support him so long as he stands for the people,” said the senator, “ and I am confident that the other progressives will do the same. When the strain comes, and the reactionary Democrats Ivy to block lloodrow. Wilson's efforts, if he breaks down and yields or compromises, I and other progressives will turn and hammer him into the ground.” British railway employees have passed a motion authorising the executive of the association to take steps, if they consider it necessary, to show resentment at the inflicting of fines on men who took part in the recent North-Eastern Railway strike. The annual poor law report discloses an increase in of paupers in the workhouses in the United Kingdom, and in the total of those to whom outdoor relief is administered. The increase is attributed to labor disputes having forced men on to an already over-stocked market of casual workers. The remedy, says the report, will be found in stopping the growth of casual labor. Pauperism in London generally shows an average of 24.4 to even- thousand. Hampstead is the lowest with 8.2, and the Strand the highest with 78.4. The International Institute of Agriculture estimates that the wheat yield of Europe, Asia, Africa, and America’will be 917.204,000 quintals, an increase of 6.9 per cent, on last year. The Australian increase is 10 per cent. The Chinese officials at the Manchurian towip of Korin are devoting their monthly salaries, to the purchase of lottery tickets in the hope of drawing money prizes, which will he devoted to raising an army to defend Mongolia. J ho suffragettes have had a rr.errv Christmas. They spent the holiday pouring ink a.nd paint and washing blue into the letterboxes at llincisor and other places near London, ark, thousands of letters were rerderod illegible bv this means.