CABLES IN BRIEF.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LII, Issue 17058, 12 June 1926, Page 5

CABLES IN BRIEF.

VICTORIAN LOAN

(Australian and N.7*. Cable Association.)

LONDON, Juno 10. The Victorian loan was subscribed nearly t'ourteenfold. SOUTH AFRICAN CENSUS. CAPETOWN, Juno 11. Preliminary results of the census of European population in the Union taken iu< May show a total of 1,672,106, an increase of 10.6 per cent on the 1921 census. MURDERED BY COMMUNIST. PARIS, June 11. M. Vesehaley, editor of the ariti-Com-munist journal New Georgia, was murdered by a Communist outside the Court during I be- bearing -of a ease wherein Georgians are charged with assaulting Communis! s. Three shots were fired. He died almost instantaneously. M.’sP. LIQUOR. .SEIZED. ■ OTTAWA, May 22. Three officers, under the direction of the Sergeant-at-Arms, entered the rooms of all members of Parliament- overnight and seized all liquor they found there. -Members claimed that the liquor had all been legitimately purchased, and later the Premier ordered its return. “PERFECT” BUTLER, ARRESTED.

Detectives, mingling with the crowd on Richmond station at midnight, arrested Clifford Clarke, “the perfect- butler/ 1 who, three days after lie was employed by Commander Locker-Lampson, M.P., went out in evening dress, posing as his employer and wearing the latter’s D.S.O. and C.M.G. decorations. Clarke, did not return, and four silver knives and £ls were missing. MR. OSCAR ASCIIE. LONDON, Juno 1. , In the London Gazette is included a receiving order against Mr. Oscar Asche, the theatrical producer. ARMAMENT FIRM’S LOSSES. The annual report of Armstrong, Whit worth and Co. records heavy losses. It will he necessary' to transfer £900.000 from the reserves. NOT TAKING RISKS. Chaliapin, the 'Russian basso, who is on his way to Australia, travelled to Paris by train, his manager having persuaded him that it would be too risky to fly, as he- had intended. TUGS PURCHASER. Three former navy tugs, St. Hilary, ■St. Aiistell, andi St. Mabyn, have been bought by the colliery owner, Mr. John Brown, for carrying Newcastle (Australia) coal. They are-to sail this week. MAYOR’S OUTBURST. As a protest against a. procession of children going to church for their first Communion, the anti-religious Mayor of Bczieres (France) played a, hose on the girls’ white dresses, and 1 tore their banner to shreds. “ RED FLAG” IN COMMONS. While the now Labor member for North Hammersmith, Mr. Gardiner, was taking the oath in the House of Commons on Tuesday afternoon, some of the Labor back-benchers sang “ The Red Flag.” They were sharply rebuked by Ministerialists. ONCE WHITE? Great interest is being taken at Calcutta in the contention advanced on behalf of Afghans that they are descendants of a white race-. Before American immigration officials they claim descent from Jewish and Arab tribes.