MISCELLANEOUS CABLEGRAMS

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 7026, 14 January 1910, Page 5

MISCELLANEOUS CABLEGRAMS

■ * ; ' ... By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. LONDON. January 12. Madame Sarah Bernhardt,-the eminet French • actress, has accepted an engagement at the Coliseum, London, during next September and OctdbOT, at a salary of £IOOO weekly. The Coliseum is virtually a musichall. [Madame is now in her sixty-fifth year, having been born at Paris on Octoher 23rd, 1845. She has been queen of the French stage for a generation. ' She dabbles also in sculpture, painting, and Literature, and is devoted to most forms of athletic exercise ■ possible to 'her sex. 'She published her "Memoirs" in 1907.] It is reported tiha* Mr Skelfbrd, a well-known engineer, has discovered, on ' the borders 1 of Uganda, .Central sMrioa, Late Mkgadi, containing a deposit of twenty square miles of solid coda. The country abounds in big gaime. (deceived January 14, 0.35 a.m.) LONDON, January 13. An "Aviation "Week" is being held at Los Angeles, California. Ms Glen K. Curtiss, in his biplane, made a world's speed record, attaining a raitei of 55 males an hour while carrying a passenger. ST. PETERSBURG, January 13. It is officially" announced that cholera his completely disappeared from, i St. Petersburg. ' . ■!' :'. ■ WASHINGTON, January 12. The Marquis Villadolar,- Spanish Minister at, Washington, has .been recalled, at President Taft's request, for croating a disturbance because, under a new rule, he was not admitted; to an audience, among tSie AmibaiEsa.do.rs. NEW YORK, January, 12. Miss Anno Morgan, daughter of Mr Pierpont Morgan, the, millionaire, is opening a: factory, to employ 10,000 unionisit blousemakers, and £250,000 is being inyested l in the earteripTise. SYDNEY, January 13. . ;Tho tonnage of' l vessels , -which arrived at Svdnoy last year amounted to. 7,504,346—an increase; of 210,722 as compared with the previous year; . At the State sivimming .championships carnival the 440 yards event was won by H. H'ard'wick ;; (Sydney), in .smin 39 3-ssec.