CABLE BREVITIES.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume I, Issue 53, 13 February 1911, Page 1

CABLE BREVITIES.

Owing to the fire at Crewe House Lady Crewe and the heir were taken in an ambulance to Lord Rosebery’s house unharmed. The pictures and art objects were slightly damaged by water. Sixty-one new oil companies wore incorporated at Ottawa in a single day. They intend exploiting the oil land in Alberta, where valuable fields are said to exist.

France has voted £136,000 for the International Hygienic Exhibition at Dresden. This has caused great satisfaction in Germany. The world’s wireless record has been received at the San Francisco station from the steamer Korea 4492 miles out.

M. Bagojaotensky, Russian Con-sul-General at Ispalian, Persia, was found drowned in a well in the precincts of the consulate.

Mr. Hutchinson, a resident of Dalkeith, gave a supper party to sixteen friends. After coffee the partakers thereof were taken seriously ill, and Mr. Hutchinson and one of His guests died. The postmortem proved that the poisoning was due to arsenic. The origin of the poison is a mystery. During a performance at the Melbourne Opera House a lion escaped to Little Collins Street, and took charge of the lobby on the ground floor of the Temperance and General Life Assurance Society’s build ing for an hour and a half. It was ultimately caged. Crippen’s will has beer proved. He.left £268 in favour of Le Neve. A Paris policeman arrested a youth for passing counterfeit coin The youth shot his captor dead in the street and then committed suicide. The left hand statue of St. Theresa at the Carmellite Convent at Olivares has been stolen. It was covered with jewels valued at £BOOO.