GENERAL CABLES.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume II, Issue 297, 20 November 1912, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES.

[ A lady has anonymously given Car- ! dinal Bourne at Loudon £50,000 for I the erection of a Roman Catholic Hos- | pital. i At the international horse show at I Now York, the United States took first ■ place with England second. The woman found in Moore Park, [Sydney, hns been identified as Cat he r- : inc. Shanahan, domestic servant, -lb years of age. It is stated that she was subject to fits, and fell recently, fracturing her skull, for which she was treated in the hospital. It is conjectured that she had another fit. which affected the fracture, inducing hemorrhage. A curious case of restoration of sight is reported at the Heidelberg Hospital for Incurables at Melbourne. William lit on, a butcher. 25 years ago was struck by lightning anti blinded. He was .suffering from partial paralysis, and was <k-af and dumb. Ten days ago he recovered his sight, and was able to sit .up in bed and read and converse, with the help of a din gram. The cause: of the cure is unknown. It is surmised to be due to the absorption of a clot of blood on the brain. Dr. Parkin, of Oxford, speaking at ; the National Association of State Uni-; versifies at Washington, criticised the i American Rhodes scholars. It was. he 1 said, a my story how some ever got 10) Oxford Merit alone was apparently i not a dc-ciding factor. ! A meeting at Sydney decided to raise: a worthy memorial in connection with ; the Shakespeare tcroontonary in 1,916. ; and subscription lists hare been opened. | Lord Chelmsford, who presided, and! others spoke against a statue. '! h--i committee intimiiti-ii that the )orm oi • the memorial had no.; b.i-n :