MISCELLANEOUS.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLIX, Issue 251, 22 October 1915, Page 5

MISCELLANEOUS.

LONDON, Oct. 21

Corporal Phillips, the New Zealander who was reported to have received 49 shrapnel wounds, has sincedied.

Lord St. Davnds raised the question in the House of Lords of a full" meeting of the Privy Council to discuss the whole war situation.

MALTA, Oct. 21.; A Commissioner has gone to Sicily to consider the establishment of hospitals for convalescents and slightly wounded from tihe Dardanelles.

MELBOUR.NE, Oct. 21

On being refused permission to visit the city Tetween 60 and 70 sol■diers broke * oami>, where they were receiving isolated treatment. An armed guard stopped the train and nineteen escapees were cap lured and court-ma rtialled.

. . MELBOURNE, Oct, 22. The- Federal Government has decided to begin the construction of an arsenal at Canberra., at a total cost of £95,000. An additional £110,000 will be spent on a garden suburb for arsenal workers. FREMANTLE, Oct. 22. A hospital ship, with 630 sick ajnd wounded New Zealanders aboard, including 300 cot cases, has arrived.