MISCELLANEOUS CABLES.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XIII, Issue 286, 19 November 1923, Page 4

MISCELLANEOUS CABLES.

When the will of Cleveland Masterman, of South Shields, who died aged 83, leaving £134,000, was being proved, it was disclosed for the first time that deceased 37 years ago secretly married a woman who ever since was kfiown as Mastermans’ housekeeper. The London “Daily Express’s” Rome correspondent says ' Anthony Zanone, aged 63 years. a famous brigand, has been released under royal amnesty after spending 44 years in prison. He says he intends to start a new life with 700 lire which he saved out of his prison earnings. A lock-out in the Norwegian paper industry commenced to-day. Attempts by an official mediator to settle the conflict failed. Twenty-five thousand men are involved.. Three cases of anthrax are reported at Wollongong. New South Wales, due to the use of infected shaving brushes. Following an announcement that four shillings daily would lie deducted from the pay to provide for a mess allowance, the special constables in Melbourne held a mass meeting and decided to send a deputation to the Commissioner-in-Chief to ask him to have the order cancelled. Failing this they would resign. After the interview Sir J. W. McCay announced that a settlement would be arrived at on Monday, and the cause of dissatisfaction removed. Th© Hon. E. G. Theodore. Premier of Queensland, is sailing in th© Niagara early in January en route Io England to negotiate for conversion of loans fall, ing due in 1924-25. The South Australian drink bill for the past year was £2.500,000. Convictions for drunkenness totalled 3764. The figures for the previous year were: £2,431,000 and 3443 respectively. The average consumption of liquor was less. The increase in the bill was due to increased charges. A conference of parties reached a basis of settlement in the British boilermakers’ dispute, which has lasted 29 weeks. The men will now ballot on the question. The death, has occurred in England of Sir Henry Schlin (?) after a most romantic career. Hia ancestors disai pated the family estates, and Henry was serving ale in his village inn at Woburn Green when he succeeded to the baronetcy. He continued as a publican for many years. Deceased had : most meagre education in a village school in Ireland, He became successively a footman. Life Guardsman, police constable, and publican.