CABLE ITEMS.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLVII, Issue 145, 21 June 1913, Page 7

CABLE ITEMS.

[Piuess Association.] HOME SCIENCE FOR WOMEN

LONDON, June 19. Lord Rosebery appeals for £50,000 to complete the Home Science and Economics Department at King's College for Women. EXTENSIVE REPAIRS.

LONDON, June 19. The repairs to the Turakina will be the largest job hitherto undertaken in London.

WIRELESS TELEPHONES.

LONDON, June 19. The Standard says that Durtnall, an English engineer, claims to have invented a generator for producing heavy, electric currents of high and also variable power. He predicts early wireless telephonic communication over a distance of several hundred miles, and also the establishment of big centres for the wireless distribution of correspondence.

A SCHOONER SUNK. NEW YORK, June 19. The liner Sagamore has arrived at Boston with eight members of the crew of the schooner Olympia, which was sunk in a collision off Sable Island.' The captain and five sailors were drowned.

EGYPTIAN LEGISLATURE. LONDON, June 19. Reuters Cairo correspondent says that the Minister for Justice has startl ed for Europe with a decree for the Khedive's signature, which abolishes

the General * Assembly and increases the numbers and power of the Legislative Council, which will henceforth be elected by the people. INCREASE OF LEPROSY. WASHINGTON, June 19. Dr Rupert Blue, at a meeting of the A.merican Medical Association at Minneapolis, declared' that,leprosy was increasing alarmingly in the United States, and more stringent laws and the discovery of a preventive were necessary. {

COMBATING AUSTRALIAN TRADE.

WASHINGTON, June 19. Alarmed at the growth of the Australian meat trade the Department of Agriculture has issued an order that every piece of meat imported from Australia must be examined by local inspectors. Heretofore the shipments have been passed on proof being furnished of examination of a few specimens taken at random. The new order means a delay of three days while the examination is proceeding, thus adding considerably to the cost of unloading. The Ventura has arrived at San Francisco with a cargo of 1200 packages of meat.

RECORD PRICE FOR A RAM.

SYDNEY, June 20. A two-year-old Wanganalla stud! ram was bought by Mr Hawker of South Australia for 1700 guineas—a record.

A MURDER CHARGE,

SYDNEY, June 20. At the trial of Brown for the murder of .Sergeant Hickey on May Ist, the arresting constable gave evidence that after his surrender Brown admitted shooting Hickey. He said that he had to do it in self-defence. Brown, in the course of a statement, declared that in the struggle Hickey grabbed Brown's revolver and fired it. He missed accused, and later,, in trying to prevent Hickey again shooting, the revolver went off and Hickey was shot.

[Sergeant Hickey and a constable went to serve a warrant upon Brown, and1 the shooting took place in Brown's house, when the police officers were effecting the arrest.]}