MISCELLANEOUS CABLES.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVI, Issue 12, 28 December 1925, Page 5

MISCELLANEOUS CABLES.

Tho big prize of £500,000 in a Spanish lottery will be divided between vendors of bananas, chestnut toasters, umbrella repiairers, and hawkers living in the poorest quarters of'Madrid. Henry Tacke, a middle-aged man, has been arrested at Sorrento on a charge of murdering Mrs Ray Currell at St. Kilda on December 10. An agreement on international woof standards has been reached between authorities on the British wool standards and American textile interests. A conference in England was nekl with representatives of the Bradford Chamber of Commerce and resulted in the adoption of a duplicate set of standards, one to remain in England and the other in the United States. The Italian debt commission will arrive in London on January 3 and negotiations will follow. It was reported that ten were killed and twenty seriously injured when passenger and freight trains collided in the vicinity of Arad, Rumania. Tho Austrian Government is preparing a new economic programme for the purpose of enabling the resumption of free trade The Pope on Thursday solemnly closed Holy Year by buijding up the Jubilee Door, opened on December 26 last year, in the presence of the royal princes, Roman nobility and princes of the church. The ceremony was most elaborate. The sentence of death passed on John Charles Stewart at Adelaide has been commuted to imprisonment for life. A family named Ball were holiday camping at Hawkesbury river, New South Wales, when their two boys, aged ten and seven, and a girl aged five went to bathe. One their failing to return a search was made and the bodies wehe discovered in the river clasped in each other’s arms. A proclamation appoints January 13 for the meeting of the new Federal Parliament, when the new members will be sworn in. The proclamation revokes the proclamation of a serious industrial disturbance, prejudicing the peace, order and good government of the Commonwealth. The proceedings against Walsh and Johnson followed the issue of the proclamation The New South Wales Assembly passed the Constitution Amendment Bill, enabling women to be appointed to the Upper House. The Government intends to appoint three or four women to the Legislative Council. It is proposed that a bill be brought down in the Legislative Council to abolish that chamber forthwith. It is officially announced that the Governor has no intention of resigning, as he acted as he did in connection with the Upper 1 House appointments on tho advice of the Colonial Office. A gale wrecked the Eiffel Tower aerials, preventing broadcasting, and overturned a ferry boat crossing the river Seine, nine persons being drowned. Several persons were injured in Rheims by collaping walls. The villages of Ewerbv and Evedon and practically all Havenholme Priory. Lincolnshire, will be sold by auction in the new year. The villages are part of the estate of the Earl of Winchelsca and Nottingham. There was tho usual crop of motor accidents in Svdnev at the week-end. A bov named Trevor Gunter, aged 11. was killed and and six other members of his familv were injured when a car overturned in St an well Park, while six people were seriouslv injured by a similar accident at Wagga. A boy cf six and a women were killed in separate city accidents, being run down by motor cars. Fire destroyed Bromley House in Sydney, occupied bv a number of firms as a warehouse. The damage amounts to £25.000. The “Hobart News” has ceased publication. The working loss on the paper for tTTndoon monilir amounted Io £l5 900.