CABLE NEWS.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXX, Issue 13092, 4 June 1913, Page 3

CABLE NEWS.

(Australian Press Specials.) LONDON, May 28. Cornell University. beat Harvard University m. the annual rowing race on Saturday. •■■•••■-.,.

„T/he ..battle-cruiser Queen Mary has left Devenport to start her steam gun trials. waitresses at the well-known cafes in 1 £ondott' run by Messrs Lyona and Co. hare been givfcn increased w&go* e+ a result of the recwit trouble.

Two big iron works at Glasgow closed down, on .Saturday owing to the falling off m orders, and 500 men were thrown on the unemployed market.

Several porcupine ant-eaters have arrived at the London Zoological Gardens, wljere' tfyey '/have been placed m the inseot house near' the ferge New Guinea speciments. ' . . ' Illuminated notices cautioning those m .charge of vehicles to drive slowly, are being affixed to the lamp-posts m various parts of London where the traffic is congested. ' ' The warm weather has com© at last m England. On "Monday the highest temperature recorded m London was 01 m the shade. This is .the highest figure /.for May . for the- last 12 years. The Italian Senate has passed two and rejected six, of the measures of the Deputies'' bills to .authorise lotteries m various cities and' tcrwns. The present annual revenue to the &tate from this source is 'about £4,00,0000. VANCOUVER, May 28. Tommy Burns'a boxing arena at Cali Kary, the scfene of • Saturday night's tragic encounter between M'Carty and Pelkey, was totally destroyed by lire early 'this morning. It is not known how the outbreak started. The caretaker and his wife and children, who were living m a portion of the ' building, had anarrow escape from being burned to death. '