MISCELLANEOUS CABLES

Otago Daily Times, Issue 18352, 16 September 1921, Page 5

MISCELLANEOUS CABLES

Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright Indubitable evidence that the Mad Mullah is really dead at last has been received. Ho died and was buried in Abyssinia in February, after wandering along destitute and starving. He was deserted by his few followers, who stole his property. His tomb was subsequently rifled. M. Venizelos was married .in a London registry office to Miss Schilizzi, the daughter of a wealthy Creek merchantAfter the honeymoon M. Venizelos will pay a six months’ visit to America. He will lecture on the League of Nations. Mr Bradfield, chief engineer of railway construction, lecturing in Sydney on the North Shore bridge, stated that the bridge would bo opened in 1931. It would be the heaviest piece of steel bridge work in the world. Mr Bradfield is leaving , for America and England to complete contracts for the work. The commission appointed by the Commonwealth' Federal Government to report on tho railway gauge problem submitted a report recommending a 4ft Biih gauge for tho commonwealth. This will involve a cost of £40,000,000. The manager of a London theatrical company arranged to convey the whole of his company by aeroplane to Manchester and play a flying matinee, returning to London in time for the evening performance. The War Stores Disposal Board sold the remaining stock of surplus textiles to a Glasgow syndicate for between £3,000,000 and £4,000,000.