MISCELLANEOUS CABLES.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XIII, Issue 186, 24 July 1923, Page 5

MISCELLANEOUS CABLES.

A fire at Victoria Wharf, Dart ford, destroyed £50,000 worth of exhibits belonging to the exhibition branch of the Board of Trade, many of which were intended to be shown at the British Empire Exhibition.

Twenty-eight thousand gymnasts from all parts of Europe are participating in a great gymnastic festival at Paris. All filed before the unknown warrior’s grave in the Arc de Triomphe and gave a display in the Champs de Mars.

The Maitland miners have rejected the coal agreement, but Cessnook and Kurri have both accepted.

The Sydney police state the trunk discovered throws no light on the Coogee mystery. The police are still searching for the trunk with the body or the carters who removed it from Coogee.

The Paris dice raided Parisian Chinatown, adjoining the Gare de Lyon, where British travellers arriving from the East have had disagreeable experiences. Tho police arrested thirty Chinese men, nine Chinese girls and 29 other Asiatics, several Italians, Poles and Belgians.

The Queensland sugar crop for 1923 is estimated to be 240,000 tons, which, with New South Wales cane and Victorian beet, makes a total of 258,000 tons for Australia. The Queensland crop in 1922 was 288,000 tons.

Mrs. Anneta. Crawford obtained a decne© nisi against J. N. Crawford, the famous cricketer in London, on the ground of desertion and misconduct.