MISCELLANEOUS CABLES.

Timaru Herald, Volume XCVIII, Issue 15160, 2 October 1913, Page 5

MISCELLANEOUS CABLES.

—♦ '■ Press Association —By Tel.—Copyright. Floods in the European Sweetwaters' district, near Constantinople, are the worst m living memory. Houses and gardens were swept . away,, and thirty workmen were cuownea. .. A petrol explosion in a store demoJshed three houses at Cc*-ebere, F: ance. Fourteen persons were killed and thirty injured. The Earl of Guildford's mansion at Waldershare Park has been, burnt, only tfie walls standing. The Earl and his servants saved valuable pieces of furniture. . Five of the northern. States of Mexico have decided to secede and form a .confederation on similar lines to the American secession. The Anglican Synod of New South Wales has agreed to a scheme to insuro its ,bwn church properties, the -profits, to ,be devoted .to church purposes.- ;,--.' J . Chandra Ghowdburg, posioe" inspeotor at Mymenshingh, Eastern was murdered by a bomb. The aasaain escaped. Giolitti, the Italian Prime Mirdsfcer, in dissolving Parliament, said that in future the> elections will be hold at the end of October. The number of eleotors would be increased from. 3,247,722 to 8,635,148, comprising all illiterates, who had served in the Army, and all maCes more, than 30 years of age. Cinematographs axe to oe used to teach the illiterates how to vote.

M. Provost, at Rheims, aboard a Deperdnssin monoplane, won: the Gor-don-Bennett cup, by" flying 200 kilometres, averaging 125 miles an hour. In 1909 the best rate was 47 miles 60 in 1910, 78 in 1911, and 106 in 1912*

Hawker, the aviator, is preparing a large Sopwifh biplane for the purpose of looping the loop. Hamel also intends to emulate Pegoud, whose three days' displays earned for him more than £IOOO.