OVERNIGHT CABLES.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 17246, 12 January 1924, Page 6

OVERNIGHT CABLES.

BRISBANE, January 11. The cause ot the tire is a mystery. Three hundred turns, aggregating over 500,000 ioet, stored m a briea vault, were destroyed. They burned with tremendous rapidity, tho tlamea being visible tor nines. PARIS, January 11. The Academy ot sports’ Grand Prix for the best sporting leat of the year has been awarded to Alain Gerbauit, tne tennis player, who crossed the Atlantic alone in a ten-ton cutter. Rival candidate* included Mdlle Lenglen, M. Lecomte, the airman, and Tixaboechi, the Channel swimmer. SYDNEY, January 11. The continued range of the thermometer close to the century mark in the past few days has resulted in the city making a thirst record. The metropolitan area, with its population of 1,150,000, consumed 80.000,000 gallons of water, or seventy gallons per head, on Wednesday, whereas the board’s maximum allowance is twenty-seven gallons. NEW YORK, January 10. Senor Reinaldo Martinez, a member of the Mexican House of Deputies, on arriving at San Antonio, Texas, declared that a reign of anarchy existed in Mexico City, and that the destinies of the Mexican people were in the hands of Socialists. Several foreign factories had been seized, and the financial crisis in Government circles had exfcerfded to the Army, for the troops had not been paid. Senor Martinez states that deser tiona from the battle front are frequent, and that the Federals are los fog ground. NEW YORK, January 10. The trustee in bankruptcy of the Patterson, MacDonald Shipbuilding Company has filed a petition in the Supreme Court asking that tribunal to grant him a writ of certiorari in a cross appeal in the wooden snip case. It will be recalled that the company’s representatives, after securing an award from the Arbitration Board of 318.000 dollars, attempted to obtain a Court order making this award stand enforceable as a judgment in the District Court of California. The Court of Appeals declined to grant such an order, and the trustee is now appealing to the Supreme Court to re-hear th i as©. The Australian Commonwealth attorneys are preparing a formal answer objecting to su.n re hearing, and it is expected that the Supreme Court will announce its decision on January 28, or shortly after. Observers who have carefully studied this series of intricate lawsuits are inclined to believe that the Supreme Court will probablv grant the comnanv a writ of certiorari, and will combine the issue with the Commonwealth’s writ of certiorari, giving the case and all its angles a complete re-hearing for an ultimate decision on the company’s claims and the Commonwealth’s coun ter-claims. ••• OTTAWA, January 10. Canada will be represented at Washington by an Ambassador within a short time. The name of the Minister of Railways. the Hon G. P. Graham, has beeo mentioned for the position. NEW YORK. January 10. Seif Oullah Yonsry Pasha arrived bv the Majestic, and has proceeded to Washington to assume his duties r »s first Egyptian Minister to the United States. BERLIN. January 10. An eye-witness of the assassination of Herr Heinz says that deceased was accompanied by a few friends at a dinner at the hotel where he was staying. Three vouths entered and asked for Heinz. They were conducted to the restaurant where one darted behind Heinz’s chair and fired repeatedly point blank at his head, Heinz falling dead. The murderer continued firing wildly, and mortally wounded a friend of Heinz. The murderer eventually, with his companions ail firing, walked out and escaped after mortally wounding two passers-by in the street and less seriously a number of others. LONDON January 10. The diplomatic correspondent of th© “Daily Telegraph” gathers that the ratification of the Lausanne Treaty by the three principal Allied Powers is problematical. France’s attitude has stiffened and she will require stringent guarantees from the Turks regarding the Ottoman debt and the regime for French schools. A similar spirit is asserting itself in Italy where Signor Mussolini is insisting on the fulfilment of pledges regarding the interests of Italian nationals. Britain awaits reports from the Levant concerning Turkish policy and administration affecting British interests. In tho meantime tho new British diplomatic representative to Turkey will be described as such and not as an ambassador or minister.