MISCELLANEOUS CABLES

Evening Star, Issue 15268, 21 August 1913, Page 6

MISCELLANEOUS CABLES

Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright

A fire broke out in the top floor of s five-storied building in York street, Sydney, ]a,?t night. The three top noois were occupied by Mr Read, a hat and umbrella maker, whoso stock was damaged to the extent of £I,OOO. Sir Samuel Griffith states that ho is not aware of his reported appointment to the Court of Appellate Jurisdiction. _ Forty-three members of the Roval Artillery Band, will represent England" at the Auckl and Exh ibi t ion.

The plebiscite taken bv the National Railway Lnion (England), although incomplete, shows that a large majority is against tho conciliation scheme. Mr"Williams, the secretary, denies that tho plebiscite of the Railway Union was against conciliation.

Dr Lumholtz, a Norwegian, who conducted a zooloeie.il expedition in North Queensland a quaiter of a century ago, is organising a scientific expedition" Guinea under the auspices of the Norwegian and British Geographical Societies. A Sydney ' Sun' message states that the Berlin Roman Catholic Congress resolved tc demand, as the first condition for the freedom of the Church, the complete personal freedom of the Pope, and the unreserved suspension of the Jesuit law. It is stated in Tolcio that Dr Kim Yat Sen shortly proceeds to Canada, and thence to England.

Captain Longcroft, of the Royal Flying Corps, with a paescnger, flew from Aldei° shot to Montrose, with one stop, in 7h 40min. Ho averaged about 70 miles an hour.

Pegond dropped in a parachute from a monoplane at Chateaufort, France, when 800 ft in the air, and landed in a tree uninjured.