CABLEGRAMS.

Otago Witness, Issue 3103, 3 September 1913, Page 24

CABLEGRAMS.

BRITISH 41« n FfHtEin* LONDON, August 25. Indira, the daughter of the Gaekwar of Baroda, was married to-day. !t was • picturesque wedding, with triple teligious ceremonies, including tne 'bride’s admission to the Brahmin creed. After Princess Indira had gone through the ceremony of accepting the Brahmin creed she was married at the Registrar’s office and then according to the Brahmin style. For the first portion of the ceremony she was dressed in European style, but for the last part all the participants wore native costumes. i August 26. Addressing the International Transport Workers’ Congress Mr Ben Tillett advocated the use of arms by strikers against armed force. Sir William Dunn (banker) has bequeathed £/50.000 to alleviate human Buffering, especially among children; also to encourage, education and to promote emigration. August 27. The Franco-British Travel Union has established a prompt reciprocal travel mutual knowledge. It will hold its first congress in London in September.. A boiler in a steel factory at Leeds exploded. Four people were killed and 16 •were injured. A Hamburg-American liner collided ■with the Spanish steamer Galaico at midnight. The bows of the latter were crushed, and the vessel filled. The crew, numbering 19, took to the boats, and were rescued by a liner and landed at Falmouth. The Galaico is a rrfenace to shipping in the Channel, as she is drifting about in a water-logged condition. An extraordinary breach of promise case has just been concluded, in which a dusky Burmese beauty, with whom the son of an English vicar had been living at Rangoon, was awarded £IOO damages. The exhibits included 1000 love letters, one comprising 142 pages, on which the recipient paid Is 3d as excess postage. August 28. An explosion at Leeds caused the death of eight persons. The Review took a plebiscite of ladies on the question of the ideal husband. The majority described the principal Dualities of the ideal husband as follows ( Inmiserly, manly in appearance, not tv pat hie face ixudde the kitchen, not to criticise hip wife's hats, not to drink heavily, not to be fat, and not to he fbOioOC.

August 29. Five thousand persons were employed 111 acting “Iva’nhoe” near Chepstow Castle for a kinematograph film. During the battle scene many of those I engaged lost their heads and fought in earnest. j There were a number of casualties. August 30A valuable Morland (1763-1804), depicting a sailor saying farewell to his sweet- ■ heart on the seashore, has been discovered 1 among the Drury Dane stage properties. August 31. The Ford Chancellor of England (Lord Haldane) will visit Montreal, where the American Bar Association is to meet. This will be the first meeting of English and American Judges ever held. Every American State will be represented. The conference will consider the uniformity of judicial procedure in the two countries. Tom Burrows collapsed after 97), hours’ plub-swinging. Davies, the notorious Dartmoor shepherd. has again been arrested on a charge of robbing churches at Whitby. BERNE, August 29.

A wealthy Geneva manufacturer has two legal wives, and children by each. The first wife was pronounced hopelessly insane, and a divorce obtained on the ground that she was incurable. The manufacturer therefore re-married. The first wife has now been discharged quite sane, and, according to experts, the divorce is invalid i BERLIN, August 28. j It is stated that a gang of thieves is holding the Meyer necklace, which is valued at £lsf*ooo, for a ransom. ■Lloyd's agent has arrived, in the hopes of meeting the writer of a letter offering to restore Mr Meyer’s pearl necklace in return for a heavy ransom. The police profess ignorance as to the whereabouts of the necklace and jewels. They consider it certain that the pearls will be detached and offered for sale in various cities. August 29. The socialistic trade unions at Loebejuer, ' near Halle, organised a fete, including an i entertainment for children. The rector of the school prohibited the j children from attending the fete, and those who disobeyed were ordered next day ! singly into the rector’s room, where they ; were soundly caned. | The parents assembled and thrashed the ■ t rector, police rescuing him and escorting him to his residence with drawn swords. August 50. In the course of a speech at Posen the Kaiser expressed real satisfaction with the Australian mutton which was imported I recently.

Preparations are in progress at Hamburg for the construction of sister ships to the Imperator and Vaterland. MADRID. August 25. A gunpowder warehouse at Lericia was struck by lightning and exploded, doing great damage to property. Thirty-five persons were injured and one was killed., August 28. Two passenger trains collided at Oruna. Three persons were killed and many injured. VIENNA, August 27. Fourteen armed youths, by pulling the alarm cord, stopped a mail train at Lemberg, but the postal authorities frustrated an attempt to enter the van. The aggressors, who used their revolvers, shattered the windows and escaped in a forest.

ROME, August 28. i Porter Charlton who was extradited 1 from America for the murder of his wife at Como in June, 1910, has arrived at I Naples. j ST. PETERSBURG, August 31. After six days’ fruitless attempts to trace the murderers of a Jewish family of five persons near Kishineff, the authorities utilised dogs, who followed a trail to the infantry barracks. There the clothing of two soldiers was found to be bloodstained, and on being arrested they coni tossed their crime. WASHINGTON. August 25. According to the reports of a special , investigation commissioner slavery exists j throughout the Philippines. Even Manila l is not free from it. The Filipinos in many parts capture children and sell them las slaves in China and elsewhere. Even 1 members of the House of Assembly maintain peonage on their own farms The friends of Snl/.er are attempting to , indict Charles Murphy, the Tammany boss, Aaron Levy, leader of the Democratic party in the State Assembly, and James Fowley, chairman of the committee which recommended the impeachment of . Sulzer, on the ground of conspiracy to j evict Sulzer from the gubernatorial chair, j NEW YORK, August 25.

The divers who are exploring the wreck of the river steamer which sank in the Missisippi, near Lake Providence (Louisiana) found Engineer O'Neill's dead body. The hand was grasping the throttle. O’Neill held the vessel’s nose buried in the bank until 50 passengers had escaped safely; then the vessel slid off into deep water and sank. O’Neill was the only victim.

August 27. A cloudburst caused serious damage in Ely' (Nevada). One man was drowned and there were a number of narrow escapes.

August 28. A passing docto' found Miss Jessie Ay i Ison, the President's daughter, unconscious on the roadside. While riding with her fiance, who was some distance ahead, did not notice the accident until the riderless horse passed him. Her "condition is not believed to be serious. * August 30. Lord Haldane has arrived here. In the course of an interview he said he favoured women’s suffrage, and he predicted the coming of Home Rule. PITTSBURG, August 30. 1 A boiler exploded on a river boat named Alice and the vessel sank instantly. I Eight people were killed on the spot : and eight who were injured swam ashore. OTTAWA, August 26. Advices from St. John, New Brunswick, state that reports by incoming ships indicate that a huge hull, believed to be that of the Titanic, is floating in midAtlantic. Several expeditions are being planned by New Vork people to cruise in the neighbourhood with the object cf 1 securing salvage if the stories prove | true. i

August 28. A dry goods store at Petcrboro (Ontario) collapsed. Four employees were killed and several injured, and two are still missing. Repairs which were being carried out on the adjoining building weakened the structure.

There were many pathetic scenes as the bodies were recovered. M. Dischambeult, a fur trapper in the Fort Simpson district, asserts that he discovered blonde Eskimos and informed Steffanson, who later on blazoned the fact over the world, claiming the credit for the discovery. Steffanson is now aboard the Karluk, which has been repaired after the recent accident, and is proceeding northwards CAPETOWN, August 29. The Mayor, in a farewell meseage to the Australian warship, refers to the swift shuttles of the Empire loom that weave us from main to main. August 30. Captain Kelsey and five companions have started on a Cape to Cairo motor expedition. DELHI, August 31. Lady Hardinge has received £70,000 for a women’s medical college and hospital at Delhi. The ruling Princes are the chief subscribers. TOKIO, August 29. A typhoon in the Tokio district killed scores of people. Seventeen children who were climbing

Mount Komagataka were overtaken, and all perished. Hundreds of bridges and houses were destroyed, 1500 houses submerged, the railways damaged, and the crops partially ruined.

« lIITKRrOT.nxMT. MELBOURNE, August 26. Ralph Goldstein, ex-manager of the Monte de Piete, has been committed for trial for the alleged larceny of £BOO of the company's funds. August 29. A wireless message has been received from Port Moresby advising that a German settler named Warner had been murdered by natives, and that a party had gone out to investigate. September 1. Australia has presented to the Palace of Peace a table built of magnificent examples of rich Australian figured woods with symbolic carvings representing the fauna and flora of Australia. SYDNEY, August 27. The Industrial Court ruled that a union could not levy upon its members for funds in support of a proposed daily newspaper. Four natives murdered a French planter named Guital on the island of Epi in the New Hebrides. The French warship Keren int, by threatening to burn the village, induced the natives to give up the four murderers, who were taken to Vila for trial. August 28. The appeal of Brown, the murderer of Constable Hickey, against his death sentence, on the grounds of misdirection of the jury and the wrongful admission of evidence, was dismissed. August 29. Constable Murphy has been sentenced to 18 months’ imprisonment for relieving a man, whom he v arrested, of £2. August 31. All the Nonconformist churches in Australasia have invited the Rev. Dr Campbell Morgan to visit Australasia in 1914 or 1915. September 1. To-day was observed as Wattle Day. A goodly percentage of the people in the streets wore sprays, and the flower was also displayed on the motor cars and other vehicles. Bunches were sold by a bevy of young ladies in aid of the free Kindergarten Union While two boys were rabbiting near Parkes, Flannery, aged 13, entered a burrow head foremost. The sand fell in on Lis head, and, though he was quickly rescued, he was smothered. £

ADELAIDE, August 26. The Observatory reports the discovery of a faint comet between Beta Cygni and Alpha Vulpeculae, moving north-west. BRISBANE, August 28. Two Japanese survivors of a crew of six drifted ashore on a capsized boat near Double Island. They were terribly exhausted. They clung to the boat for 48 hours, but the others became exhausted and dropped off. PERTH, August 27. After her damaged bulkhead is repaired the Rakaia will coal and resume her voyage. HOBART, August 27. The Budget shows that the revenue for the year was £1,111,291, and the expenditure £1,077,857, leaving a surplus of £33,435, thus reducing the previous deficit to £44,762, which will''be converted into an actual surplus of £32,238 by special revenue from the Commonwealth. August 28. In connection with the murder of Mr Mullins Mrs Jones has been, discharged. The police withdrew the charge against the accused on the ground of insufficient evidence.