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Waikato Argus, Volume XV, Issue 6108, 5 December 1903, Page 2

LADY BARRISTERS. London, December 3. The Grey's Inn authorities have refused to admit Miss Bertha Cave, who passed the necessary legal examinations. Lord Halsbury, the Lord Chancellor, and Bix other judges, after hearing Miss Cave, decided that there was no precedent for calling ladies to the English Bar, and it was not desirable to create one. MAFIA SOCIETY. New Yoek, December 3. The police throughout the United States have been busily watching the movements of the infamous international secret organisation known as the Mafia Society for many months. Their efforts have now culminated in a raid in the Italian quarter of Philadelphia, in which a large detachment of constabulary seized 15 members of the society. The Mafians were armed with revolvers and stilettos, and the preparedness of the police probably saved a further tragedy. THE KAISER. London, December 4. The British Medical Journal states, on absolutely trustworthy authority, that the Kaiser's medical attendants consider the cure of the vocal affection complete,, and there is no fear whatever of an untoward development. ATLANTIC YACHT RACE. Berlin, December 4. The Kaiser's postponement of the Atlantic Cup is due to the New York Yacht Club declining to cooperate with the Atlantic Yacht Club, which is poorer and of less standing socially. SUBMARINE ASHORE. New York, December 4. An American submarine is stranded on the rocks on Currituck Shoals, North Carolina. Seven of. the crew are ashore in an inaccessible position. COUNTESS RUSSELL AGAIN London, December 4. Mabel, Uountess Russell, instituted proceedings for divorce against William Brown, on the grounds of cruelty and adultery. LONDON UNIVERSITY COLLEGE. London, December 4. An anonymous donation of £50,000 has been received towards the University College, "London, to be devoted to higher scientific education and rusearch. THE TOLEDO CATHEDRAL. Madrid, December 4. The roof of the Toledo Cathedral has fallen, and there are serious fears for the safety of the rest of the building. MISCELLANEOUS. London, December 3. The private Bills to be introduced next session include one to dam the Thames at Gravesend, thus converting the river into a huge dock, and to acquire the land necessary for the wharves. The whole scheme is estimated to cost five millions sterling. The Royal Commission appointed to investigate the presence of arsenic in beer urges the necessity of the adoption of an official standard of quality and an extension of existing powers of administration. Mr Joseph Mayer, the famous impersonator of Christus in the Passion Play at Oberammergau, is dead. Mrs Dowie and son are stopping at an aristocratic hotel at Cannes. Teheran, December 3. During the visit of Lord Curzon, Governor-General of India, to the Persian Gulf, the Miborak of Koweyt exchanged cordial visits with His Excellency. On these occasions 200 Arabs, mounted on horses and camels, escorted the visitors. Capetown, December 3, A sensational murder trial has ended in a verdicb that an Englishman named Hart was insane. He murdered his friend, named James Armstrong, who was a native of Monteith, in Scotland. The body lay for months on the shore of a lonely lake near Capetown, Harb visiting the spot daily to look upon the remains of his dead friend.