TIMES AND SYDNEY SUN SERVICES

Otago Daily Times, Issue 16052, 20 April 1914, Page 5

TIMES AND SYDNEY SUN SERVICES

Preea Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, April 17. (Received April 1.8, at 5.20 p.m.)

As a sequel to the defalcations of Lowry, Paymaster of the- Fleet, Captain Cayley and Commander Rideout, both of H.M.S. Ganges, ziave been court-martialled for negligence in supervision of the accounts. The court reprimanded them.

Burroughs succeeded in his attempt at Devonport to beat the 80 hours' clubswinging record. He made 90 revolutions to the minute.

One hundred and thirty wives and families and 60 domestics have sailed in the Rotorua for New Zealand.

Experiments having proved successful, it is probable that liquid cement will be injected by compressed air into the •'subsoil of St. Paul's Cathedral to strengthen the foundations.

In the House of Commons Major White (Southport) asked whether, with a view to ensuring the absence of a political atmosphere in the army and navy, Mr Asquith would agree that the Minister holding the positions of First Lord of the Admiralty and Secretary of State for War should abstain from partisan speech-making. Mr Asquith replied: " I hardly think this is a practicable suggestion, but I don't mind myself being exempted."

A woman at the Glasgow Police .Court was charged with the theft of £17 10s. A search of her clothes was unsuccessful, but an X-ray photograph showed that she had swallowed 1§ sovereigns and five halfsovereigns.

PARIS, April 17.

The design of the French postage stamp is being changed to a view of the Eiffel Tower with an aeroplane flying past. The present stamp (a woman with outstretched' arms sowing a field of corn) is too easily forged. NEW YORK, April 17. The Feminist Association is spending £20,000 in'erecting "flats" for the use of married women engaged in business and professions. A nursery school, with a trained staff, will be planted on the roof.