DELAYED CABLES.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXVII, Issue 10682, 27 June 1913, Page 3

DELAYED CABLES.

Sydney Stm Special. PLAGUE OP PLIES. ’ London, Jane 16. ; A plague of flies is devastating flower and fruit gardens in the South of England. The cherry and ; plums crops will he a failure. The loaves have the appearance of having been curled with hot \ tongs. ; FRENCHMAN’S WORLD TOUR. ; New York, June 16. : Louis Grandjean is trying to ; the immigration authorities at New* York to help him get hank to France ; by deporting him as an undesirable j citizen, He says that if he can [ reach Paris by July 15th, he will I win £2OOO. The bet, he says, was | put nplO years ago, at the Jockey Club The wager was that he | should^visit every country in the \ world, : working his way all the [ time, and never being subsidised nor ■ accepting charity. Grandjean says {he has already visited Australia, 1 jj L 03 1! BY A DAY. | London, June 17. I Mark All, An old man who is well known for his feats of pedestrian- | ism, has just had the bad luck to | lose a wager of £IOO through taking | a day too long to walk a stipulated l distance. i Notwithstanding his weight of years—he is going on for So—-the Veteran undertook to, walk 5000 miles in 90 days. It was a great effort for the old man, and a little more than he was equal to. He covered the distance, but it took him gust a day longer than the stipulated time, and therefore lost his money. GAOL AT FOURTEEN YEARS.

New York, June 16, • Herman Koppes, aged 14 years, Ys the youngest life prisoner in America. To-day he entered the State penitentiary at Joliet, Illinois. The boy was sentenced to imprisonment for life for the murder of Mrs Slacop and two little children on a farm where he t> was employed. He pleaded guilty. I WOMEN STRONGER THAN MEN Berlin, June 16. The national Insurance returns !«how that sickness id thore prevalent am oil# raen than amoiig and that tlu? former are longer fifider the care of the doctors. CHURCH AND WOMEN. London, June 16. I Lord Ourzon has entered ins proI test against the discussion at the I Church Oongresss in September of I the women’s movement. The Bishop 1 of Winchester says that the existence I of this burning controversy increases |tho need for its quiet, Christian j|ooM iteration. IS VIVISECTION CRUEL? j London, June 16. | Four professors and surgeons of the University of Pennsylvania have beeWarrested on a charge of cruelty in connection with vivisection experiments. The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals is investigating the affair. MORE REPOSE FOR GIRLS. London, June IG. The president of the 1 Headmistresses’ Conference, which’ is now sitting in London, says that there is need for more repose in the school life of the girl of to-day. LONDON TO PARTS. Loudon, June 16. Discussing a suggestion that has been made as to the possibility of shortening by 75 minutes the time occupied in the journey from Loudon to Paris, the Railway Gazette doubts whether it can be done. This journal points out that the timings in the three sections of the journey are already cut very fine.