GENERAL CABLES.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume III, Issue 312, 23 December 1913, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES.

“times" -“SYDNEY BUN’’ SPECIAL CABLES. Mischa Elman, who vCits Australia in June, will take with him a StradicarusA'iolin r.i'id; l in 1722. and valued at £2OOO.

The Hindjnvah barrage was inaugurated by the Tali of Bagdad. It diverts the water into the old channel oi the Euphrates, passing by the site of Babylon. When the master of ceremonies at the cafes at Jlontmarrres (France) ordered the bandsmen to play, they refused and left the buildings her.-au.-e their demand for increased pay was declined. The patrons of the cafes wore bewildered and angered at- being deprived of their music. The copyright in Wagner’s “ Parsifal " expires on Pot-ember 31st. ’.Arrangements arc being made to perform the opera at Coveut Garden, London, and in Paris. Italy, Scandinavia and forty different towns in Germany and Austria. [PB ESS ASSOCIATION COP TRIG HT. 1 Ernest Solway, a manufacturer at Brussels, has donated £40.000 to the Institute for the Education of the Working Classes. Ho also con tributes an office to promote socialistie legislation. and promises f urther donations. Leonardo da Vinci’s picture “ MonaLisa." was handed over to the French embassy at Homo after being inspected by the King. A vainter named Vaneellatti was arrested in Paris, accused of being an accomplice of Perugia's in the theft. A fall <.! stone in a quarrv at Mmdy (Svdnev) killed two num. Kincaid ami Highlcv.

Aow Zealand having luted the quarantine against Australia, th;- Conimonwealth - mi the Nu-ih I lam I will ho lifted as Siam as the dii'i't-toi ii (i i in m re;-.-"- from dm A ' 7 >i id H l.'i Department information _ i r lm 1 i y,-v. Zealand

j Pnthan outlaws b<->ld up the Pcsliav. ar mail train and killed tin. 1 Furoptwn driver and guard nml 'he Indian iir - ■mon. Valuable parcels were looted. Troops are pursuing the robbers.