MISCELLANEOUS CABLEGRAMS

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 7079, 17 March 1910, Page 7

MISCELLANEOUS CABLEGRAMS

By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. A MOTOR ICE-SLEDGE. LONDON, March 15. Captain Soott, R.NI, who is to lead the next British Antarctic Expedition, has imad© testa of a motor-sledge. Tho test was successful, tihe sledge pulling a load of nineteen hundredweight on the snow. CANADA'S MILITIA INSPECTION. OTTAWA, March 15. In the Dominion House of Commons, Sir Frederick Borden, Minister for Militda and' Defence, said that_ the coming -visit of Major-General Sir |GA. French iwould..l»e semi-official. There •would "be no special mobilisation, but every facility would be given to tihe General to 6ee the militia. NEW TRIAL REFUSED. MELBOURNE, March 16. The High. Court refused an appeal by the proprietors of the "Age" for a new -.trial lof the tease in which Mr' Swinburne, ox-Minister for Water Supply, was awarded . £3250 damages for reflections on his administration of tho department. MURDERER EXECUTED. ADELAIDE, March 16. Robins was executed to-day for the murder of Pwenswortn on December 24,'tlh. r SYDNEY SHOOTING SENSATION. (Received March d 6, 11.10 p.m.) SYDNEY, -March 16. Lovett, when .ohairged in tho Police Court to-day witlh ftiio murder of his wife (the barmaid employed in the Cafe Italian, Bond street, under tho name of Stark, 'whom he shot yesterday) swooned in rtho dock. He was remanded "till after the inlquest. NORTHERN TERRITORY. . „ ADELAIDE, March 16. An influential syndicate has been formed in London to explore the Northern Territory for gold and other j minerals.. EIRE AT KALGOORLTE. PERTH, March 16. Silver and Home's foundry at Kal-l goorlie was destroyed by fire. The damage is estimated at £IO,OOO. MINOR ITEMS. Mr Roosevelt and his son, who bavo been hunting in Africa, were met by Mrs Roosevelt at Ehiartoum. The level of Uhe (water in the Seine has fallen twenty feet at Paris, and steamboats have resumed running. Lady Dudley (wife of> tihe GovernorGeneral of Australia), who recently underwent a serious operation, is approaching the convalescent stage. Mr Winston Churchill, Home Secretary, has iannounced that a regulation permitting mitigation of prison treatment in respect of suffragettes has "beea framed. The body of Sir Malcolm McEaohjarn, of Melbourne, who died suddenly at Cannes, while on a yachting tour, will bo buried at GaTlieston, in Wightonshire, Scotland. Burns. Philp, and •Company's steamer Moresby, which was recently stranded in Cook's Passage, has been docked at Sydney. It was found necessary toremove eleven plates. A number of others are damaged. The Archbishop of York lias appointed the Rev. A. D. Tupper Carri a cattion. Canon Carri will devote himself to mission work, and sails for New -Zealand on June 16th to conduct a three months' mission of help. '