CABLE ITEMS

Marlborough Express, Volume XLIX, Issue 123, 27 May 1915, Page 7

CABLE ITEMS

•» [Press Association.! „ —*' COPENHAGEN, May 25. The Reichstag has been summonet for Fritlaj

LISBON, May 26

Senor Cliagas has resigned the Premiership. Ho has lost tho sight of one eye, and .also had an arm injured

MELBOURNE, May 20. fti the Assembly, during tlie discussion of the Temporary ..Restrictions Act, Mr Farthing said:—The An»tralians are the most sober people in the progresive parts of the world, lhe teetotal party are using the tense feeling caused by the war to get a .-•■■ shortening ■of hoiirs and imal abolition of hotels. The Bill will not stop drinking, but will drive the trade into iitegi&imato channels." ;'•■ • „ " ADELAIDE. May 25.

Naxbery, the winner o¥ the Adelaide Cup, was sold to Mr-Joseph Timms for 300 guineas. ADELAIDE, May 26. Although the recent rains augmented the supply of metropolitan water the supply still shows a deficiency oi 600,000,000 gallons, compared with last year.

SYDNEY, May 26. The -siy-storeyed' building of the Australian Paper Company was gutted by fire. Several adjacent buildings trWc damaged. x ■... s

Disgruntled butter-buyers declare that butter is being secretly stored, fcecause merchants expect the Government to advance the price. There is more truth probably, in the claim that the curtailment is due to the -early winter conditions and therjessening oi: cream 'production. The wither lately has been, very cold.