VARIOUS CABLES.

Southland Times, Issue 14437, 7 June 1910, Page 5

VARIOUS CABLES.

GOVERNMENT SUIT FAILS. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright). MELBOURNE, June 6. Received June 6, 11.30 p.m. The Commonwealth Postmaster sought to obtain an injunction to restrain a firm of publishers from publishing a private telephone list. The High Court dismissed the application, holding that private publishing is not an infringement of the law. TEACHERS ON TOUR. LONDON. June 5. Two hundred Russian and 150 Manitoba teachers will shortly visit Britain to study teaching methods. CHECKING INFANT MORTALITY. LONDON, June 5. Lord Robert Cecil, speaking at Huddersfield, stated that before 1906 the infantile mortality was 154 per thousand. Since the special prevention scheme the rate had gone down to 102. Huddersfield’s example had been widely followed, and had resulted in saving 15,000 lives. SNOW IN NEW SOUTH WALES. SYDNEY, June 6. The weather is very cold and stormy. Twelve inches of snow fell at Delegate, the heaviest recorded in the district. YOUTHFUL MURDERERS. PARIS, June 5. Two young Swiss shepherds, Jacquiara (aged 17) and Vienny (15), who brutally murdered five peasants with revolvers and a hatchet on a lonely farm, have been sentenced at Aunerre to death and twenty years’ imprisonment respectively. PAPUA. MELBOURNE. June 6. The expenditure on Papua for nine months has been £41,040, and the receipts £42,766, an increase under both heads of £7OOO compared with the corresponding period of last year. THE SUBMARINE PLUVIOSE. PARTS, June 5. The sunken submarine Pluviose was attached by eight chains to pontoons and tugged inshore.