MISCELLANEOUS CABLES.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVI, Issue 210, 23 August 1926, Page 5

MISCELLANEOUS CABLES.

Within fwelve months London will have not only the old Tussauds restored, but in addition a restaurant and cinema, the aim of the now company being to make if. London’s leading entertainment centre, on which they are spending £200,000.

A Winnipeg message states that Canada will have the Empire Parliamentary conference in September, 1927, it an invitation is forthcoming from the Dominion Government, according to an announcement by the secretary. Sir Howard Degville, who is at Ottawa en route to Australia. General regret at the lack of Canadian representation at the forthcoming conference was voiced by the members of the party.

More than 220,000 Americans, 759,000 British and 685,000 Spaniards visited France last year, according to the National Tourist Office, states a Paris cable.

An American, Ricardo Screiber, has

been made a Knight of the British Empire in recognition of his valuable i services in Anglo-Peruvian relations. * The unusual bestowal of an English t knighthood marks the termination < of Sir R. Screiber’s seven years’ ser- * vice in London. He is shortly going te The Hague as Minister.

Swift retribution overcame a masked bandit who entered a ladies’ compartment in the Brentschen-Berlin train, robbed the occupants at the revolver point, and then pulled the ’’alarm cord to facilitate his escape, says a Paris cable. He jumped off as the train slowed down, but an express swept by in the opposite direction, fatally mangling the bandit.

Amelia Harriot Crouch has been arrested on a charge of the murder ‘of her husband, Frank, a retired manufacturer, living in a summer house on a farm near Clackton-on-Sea, who was found fatally shot with a revolver clasped in his hand, says a London cablet

A Sydney cable states that motor accidents during the week-end were responsible for four deaths in Sydney and one in Melbourne, and several persons wede injured.