MISCELLANEOUS CABLES

Timaru Herald, Volume XCIV, Issue 14363, 8 February 1911, Page 5

MISCELLANEOUS CABLES

A party of Riffs attacked fivo Euro-' peans and killed four near Oran, Morocco. The Privy Council refused to add tlio Red Dragon of Wales to the Royal Standard and coinage. A blizzard ia sweeping over tho v Middlo West and Lake regions of the United States, and is blocking traffic. The population of Prussia is 40j157,573, an increase of nearly threo millions the last census in 1905. Cannibalism has. reached such an -cute stage at the Admiralty Islands that the German authorities hare decided upon drastic action, and establishing a Government station at tho principal island. The centre of the building of tho Sublime Porte has beon destroyed by fiio. The Foreign and Grand Vizier's offices escaped. A white woman fatally shot with ;t revolver a Kaffir assailant at P?n*ialonga.

Shepherd, the amateur champion wrestler, is proceeding to England to represent New South Wales -1 the Coronation festivities. It is probable that Hardwick will represent the btai.o in swimming and boxing.

Inquiries are proceeding regarding the deaths of three iuinatea of tho KenAsylum, Melbourne. Post mortom examinations revealed tho fact that there wore broken ribs in each case. All tho sufferers also were affected with general paralysis of the brain. The steamer Eastern, stranded '-n a bank near Brisbane, was rescued by a storm driving her right over the bank into deep water. The previous attempts to get her off will cost £IO,OOO to £15,000. A survey shows that she is damaged amidships. New .South Wales is claiming from tho Federal Government intorost on tho cost of four millions worth of State property taken over by the Commonwealth.

Tho nnmber of youths to bo enrolled for compulsory military training in New South Wales will be about 40,1)00.

British men-of-war's mou are 'nipplied with tobacco at la a pound when Oil board. A recont rulo that they must pay 2s 8d for tobacco ta'.'ccn asiioro when on leave caused discontent.

A family of eight children wore poisoned in Switzerland by bad margarine. Tlu-ee are dead, and three dangerously

Twelve to fifteen thousand quarters of Australian wheat, January-February shipment, have been sold at 85s.