MISCELLANEOUS CABLEGRAMS

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 7090, 31 March 1910, Page 5

MISCELLANEOUS CABLEGRAMS

By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. LONDON. March 29. - The Postmaster-General, Mr Herbert Samuel, attended the Postal Clerks’ Association conference. He endorsed the recognition by his predecessor (Mr Buxton) of trade unions, but did not refer _to tho conference’s resolution claiming freedom to exorcise political rights. Advices received yesterday from tho Seychelles state that a steamer from tho islands reports no sign of the steamer Loodiana at Cosmoledo,' where she was,reported a few days ago to he ashore. Professor Milne, F.K.S., the wellkhowm seismologist, claims to have proved by tile seismograph that the earth, at a mile and a"’ half from, the sea, swings diurnally with the tides. •The Irish Sea depresses the shores, producing a deflection equal to an inch in sixteen miles. The Washington correspondent of tho “Morning Post’’ states that Mr Bryce, British Ambassador to the United States, lias notified the United States Government of Canada’s acceptance of the Waterways Treaty, VIENNA, March' 29. It is officially stated that 300 persons were killed and seventy injuredall seriously—in the fire which destroyed a dancing hall in an inn at, Oekoerito, Hungary. BERLIN, March 29. The object of First Lieutenant Filchner’s proposed Antarctic expedition is to ascertain the mutual relations of the great land masses of the Ehst and West Antarctic. He proposes to start 25 degrees west of the meridian of Greenwich. SYDNEY, March 30. A bakery at Broken Hill was wrecked by a mysterious exclusion. Wright, the proprietor, and his son, were severely injured. The president of the Licensed Victuallers’ Association, addressing tho annual conference, stated that prohibition had wiped out happiness and comfort in Canada and Now' Zealand. In the latter country the tourist traffic had fallen off hy CO jier cent. Tourists oould not have fun when they could not get liquor. MINOR ITEMS. Mr Murl-ey, a passenger on the Mongolia from Auckland, died aboard the vessel before reaching Melbourne, from syncope. The editor of the “Swarajya” newspaper, published at Allahabad, in the United Provinces of Agra and Oudh, India, was sentenced to ten years’ imprisonment for publishing seditious articles. A second-class passenger aboard the steamer Otway, bound to New Zealand from England, is under observation by the health officers at Melbourne. Another third-class passenger, in quarantine at Fremantle, developed small-pox in a modified form. • Mr Roosevelt, in an address at the Egyptian University, expressed the abhorrence by the civilised world of the murder of. Boutros P'asha, Egyptian Premier. Tire murderer had reached a pinnacle of infamv. Mr. Roosevelt emphasised the need for a right conception of the functions of education. Paper constitutions were, he said, futile, unless the people could rely on self-government. Nationalist students, at a subsequent meeting in Cairo, protected against Mr Roosevelt’s speech.