TIMES AND SYDNEY SUN SERVICES

Otago Witness, Issue 3149, 22 July 1914, Page 28

TIMES AND SYDNEY SUN SERVICES

LONDON, July 13. ' he Catholic Congress at Cardiff affirmed that Labour could succeed Socialism; and demanded that Mr Ramsay MacDonald, M.P., and Mr Philip Snowden, M.P., should clearly and unmistakably define Socialism. Despite the arrival of a force of police some burglars in a jeweller’s shop in Holborn, by watching from the roof .the reflections of the movements of the police in the shop windows opposite, escaped with £IOO3 worth of booty while the police concentrated in the rear. The dearth of 25,000 recruits in five years justifies criticism of the Government. The expenditure of more money and a thorough reform of the recruiting service are necessary. The neglect and slackness of the past few years have had disastrous consequences. July 14. Oldham Holborrow, a cripple, has started from Bridgport to cross the Atlantic in a small sailing boat of his own construction. He has taken 40gal of water, half a hundredweight of biscuits, and other provisions. A suburban traveller for the Ardath Tobacco Company has a wireless equipment attached to a motor van, which he uses to communicate with the head office to supply urgent orders. Two hundred and forty-two autograph letters written by Lord Nelson to his wife from before marriage to the date of separation sold for £2200. July 17. A National Council for the purpose of combatting venereal diseases is being formed, composed of representatives of the medical profession and the general public. Captain Halsey is entertaining 20 Maorilanders who are aboard -the New Zealand for the review. A select committee, inquiring into the matter of short weight, reports that upon the whole the retail trade is honestly conducted. A certain number of traders, however, use tea wrappers of an unnecessarily heavy weight, thus greatly increasing the percentage of tare and diminishing the net. It recommends that bread be sold by weight only. July 19. The official report on the rubber plantations of Bolivia states that fathers hand over their daughters of 12 to anyone offering them money, that women are sold like animals, and that any men who object are flogged. The Lancet says that Dr Couls has discovered that the condition known as tennis elbow is becoming commoner among tennis players, and is producing periostitis of the external epicondyle. PARIS, July 14. Two more bombs were found in the waiting room of a suburban station. They were clumsily manufactured. It is obvious that a bomb laboratory exists somewhere, but whether for political crime or robbery with terrorism is not known. BERLIN, July 19. Leading surgeons have abandoned the treatment of cancer with radium, and have reverted to the Rontgen rays. They state that many patients who have been dismissed as cured after treatment with radium have returned with cancerous growths in other parts of the body. MADRID, July 14. Regallo, the famous toreador, is under contract to partake in 105 performances this season for £21,000. NEW YORK, July 19. Millions of worms are devastating the gardens in districts round the city. Their progress has been checked by filling ditches with petroleum.