THE TIMES-SYDNEY SUN

Otago Daily Times, Issue 15892, 11 October 1913, Page 9

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LONDON, October 9.

At the inquest on a Bradford wool sorter who had contracted anthrax, and bad beea given an injection of salvarsan, tha bacteriologist for the Anthrax Investigation Board stated in hie evidence that death was due to ealvarsan poisoning, consequent on the kidneys being unable to pass off the salvarsan after killing tha anthrax bacilli. October 10. (Received Oct. 10, at 7.10 p.m.) The Public Prosocntor is taking up a case against men connected with a " Snide " auction Toom, on the Strand, who were chaTged with assaulting a ScotaSan who tendered a sovereign in payment for a twopenny knife, but did not receive change. When he called next day the three defendants attempted to eject him, breaking his nose. The defendants were remanded, and placed in custody. Tha press is filled with complaints from people who have been fleeced in such places. Scotland Yard states that it is unable ta take action on account of people not caring to mate a specific change. The highest financial authorities do not consider that there is the slightest hops of Australia raising loans at a cheaper iate, because a federation is taking control of the money market. There is a-* scramble for capital all over the world, which will have the effect of increasing the dnterestchargea for several years. BERLIN, October 10, A domestic named Mannheim, who . was refused permission to attend a dance, waa secretly descending on a clothes Hne from a window when the wpe broke, and sha was killed. ROME, October 10. Two women quarrelled at an election meeting and fought a duel with revolvers. One waa wounded.