MISCELLANEOUS CABLES

Evening Star, Issue 15513, 8 June 1914, Page 6

MISCELLANEOUS CABLES

Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. A German expedition will shortly proceed to New Guinea to study tho bird of paradise's habits and life history, with a view to facilitating intended protective legislation. The recent Court at Buckingham Palace was a. (brilliant function. His Majesty wore the uniform of a. colonel of the Coldstream Guards, while Queen Mary wore a gown of gold brocade with gold diamante emibroideries, a train of point lare being arranged over gold tissue, and trimmed with a deep (border of gold flowers.

His Holiness the Pope gave an audience to the Bishop of Sale (Victoria). Another cotton fire is reported from Bombay, in which 500 bales of cotton, of the value of £20,000, ore said to have been burnt.

Twenty specially-kept dairy fa,rms in Kent and (Surrey showed that the average cost of feeding rows worked out at for every gallon of milk produced. Advices received via Rhodesia state that Captain Kelsey, who, when on his Cape Town to Cairo trip, was attacked and mauled by a leopard, died in a mission hospital near Seranje.

Brock, an American, won the Aerial Derby (in England) in 79min 54se<\ The race was hampered by a fog, and the distance was 95 miles.

A cyclone struck the town of Sandorii (Iowa), killing three people and levelling the whole of the eastern section of the town, including the elevators, water tower, and electric'lighting machinery. The Black Biver at Neillovillo (Wisconsin) is flooded. liridg.es have been washed away, buildings razed, and dams destroyed. The water which swept along the streets was 20ft deep. The light power plant was destroyed, but no lives were lost.

The suggested Japanese shipping amalgamation is denied.

A member of tho South African Railwayman's Society was awarded £SOO damages against Mr Poufcsma and the printer for a libel published in the society's 'Gazette.'

Oswald Watt, of Sydney, looped a triple loop at Bee, using the machine with which Pegoud first looped the loop. Mazoyer Gouz-i's assailant, thought to be one of the Bonnot gang, has "been arrested.