VARIOUS CABLES

Evening Star, Issue 17313, 29 March 1920, Page 4

VARIOUS CABLES

Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. Trinity College of Music h/ive appointed Messrs Albeit Mallinson and Gsorge F. Vincent examiners for Australia for 1920. General Booth has left London for Australia and New Zealand. At the Old Bailey Corporal King (an Australian, who fired" on a constable 'while raiding a house at Pimlico) pleaded guilty to common assault, and was bound over to keej) the peace. A meeting held at Westminster inaugurated the Roads of Remembrance Association for the purpose of planting trees in memory of fallen soldiers. Brussels newspapers state that KinoGeorge will visit Belgium shortly, and will confer the Military Cross on YpVes. ■The Panama Canal has been reopened. Military and colonial officials watched trials on the Seine of a new motor boat of the Glider type with an ensrfne of 450 horse-power, lowing 12 cylinders, giving 2,100 revolutions. Four tests were made, an average speed of 75 miles an hour being attained, the top speed being 80 miles an hour. Mr H. C. Mac Fie. of Sydney, N.S.W., has sold to the British Sulphides Smelting Company for 100.000 £1 shares and £5.C00 in cash, block 196, Broken Hill Extension, the Broken Hili Alma J-.-xtension, the Broken Hill Extended Silver, and the Eastern Pinnacles properties. The British Treasury have sanctioned the Food Ministry's continuance of the policv of purchasing all the available butter. Negotiations are proceeding with the Argentine, Denmark, Holland, and France. THE OTAKI'S FIGHT. LONDON, March 25. At a dinner to ' the naval architects, Sir Thomas Mackenzie, proposing the toast of " The Mercantile Marine," described the Otaki's fight with the German raider Moewe. At the close of Mte speech Roar-admiral Sir William Nicholson rose and announced that in view of the splendid action the ship had fought against the Moewe the Admiralty had' decided to name a warship the Otaki. The Shipping Controller paid a tribute to New Zealand's consideration in presenting her requirements for shipment, making the Controller stretch the Dominion's tannage allowance to the utmost. He deeply regretted that Sir Thomas. Mackenzie's term of office was approaching an end. SHIPPING CONGESTION. LONDON, March 25. Commenting on the Government officials' inefficiency in discharging meat from steamers, the shipping "newspaper ' Fair Play' gives details of 24 steamers with Government-owned frozen meat on board arriving to the. end of 1919. which were detained in port an average of 30 days in excess of the normal time: also of 12 which arrived in 1919 and are still awaiting discharge. ' Fair Play' points out that the loss in earning power which these steamers represent is almost a fabulous sum NEW PEERAGES DENOUNCED. LONDON, March 25. Brigadier-general Page Croft, 11.V., at the National Convention issued a challenge to Mr Lloyd George declaring that he ■was prepared to swear before a Royal Commission that the Prime Minister had recommended tittcs to men of moral illfame and men who were financial crooks. MATERNITY AS A CAREER. LONDON, March 24. M. Paul Carnot, professor of therapeuParis, suggests in the Paris 'Journal ' that maternity be made a remunera- j tive career, this mission to be confined to a volunteers' community bearing the burden of rearing children." HEART DISEASE" RESEARCH. ' LONDON. March 24. Professor Mackenzie, who is investigating heart disease, found that food digitalis restored the hythem, not by stimulus, but by showing action. This knowledge _has been greatly advanced by recent experiments. SCOTS IN THE CAUCASUS. ( .. IBJXDON, March 25. The '1 lines's' correspondent at Rotterdam tells of the discovery in the Caucasus of descendants of a,' Scotch landing at Trebizond ion the Black Sea) in the 15th century. They lived in a- village in j the mountains near Batum. Thev are bine-eyed and red-haired, wore kilts," spor- I rans, and played on bagpipes made 'out of j pigs ladders. Thev spoke a mixtuie o? i (..-atlic. ( Georgian, and 'tartar. ' The ! Inness _ correspondent offers to escort! ethnologists to the village. TRAMWAYMEN MAY STRIKE. j LONDON, March 27. j . acred the tramwaymen's branches throughout the country to tender strike notices i lexpirwur. on April 3, but a strike mav possibly be averted bv negotiations in the meantime. ROWDY SCHOOL TEACHERS. LONDON, March 27. i A mass meeting of London school j teachers who are dissatisfied with their 1 pay. was held to hear Mr H. A. L. Fisher ' (Minister of Education), who was shouted ■ down by Mr Cobb, the chairman of the London County Council's Education Committee, despite the Bishop of London's appeal. Mr Fisher thereupon quitted the hall, and the meeting broke up in disorder. '■ COLLISION AT MONTEVIDEO. * j LONDON, March 28. j _ the Admiralty Division gave judgment : resnecting_ the collision between the ShawSavill's Karamea, while leaving Monto- ; video in February, 1919, and the- Norwegian vessel Haugkuid, which wae entering , the harbor. Both steamers denied liabilitv. The Court found that the rules governing the crossing of ships were disobeved, the Karamea being three-fourths b'ameworthv and the Haugland one-fourth. ~ == 1