CABLE BREVITIES.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXXVI, Issue 13353, 18 April 1911, Page 3

CABLE BREVITIES.

During the progress of a fire in a shirt factory at St. Louis, thd police prevented 200 tei rifled, girl leaping from llie windows. The firemen assisted them to safety. Lord 'Haldane, Secretary of State for War, who was recently raised to the peerage, has been appointed a member of tha Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, in succession to Lord James of Hereford, who has resigned. Lord Haldane is thus entitled to adjudicate on legal cases in the House of Lords. The annual report of the N.S.W. Socialist Labour Party expressed satisfaction at the establishment of a branch of the party in New Zealand. Miss Ola Humphrey, the well-kpown actress, has married Prince Ibrahim Hassan, cousin of the Khedive of Egypt. Mr James Keir Hardie, Labour M.P. for Merthyr Tydvil, has written to Australasian miners’ unions appealing for assistance for the hungry women ar»l children dependent on the Rhondda Valley strikers Sir E. Smith has presented .£IOOO to the N.S.W. Commercial Travellers’ Association to form the nucleus of an accident and sickness fund. Manufacturers’ week commences at Sydney to-day. Over a thousand city shops have arranged to make display of purely Australian goods in their windows. Count (Jresbert Wolff Metternich. Germany, who was arrested, with two others, on December 16 for cardsharping, has been sent to a hospital with a view to ascertaining his mental condition. / A perusal of the accounts of remarkable duels led two lads, aged ten and eleven years, to fight in Rome with canes tipped with sharpened umbrella ribs. 'Pile elder lad was killed, his brain being penetrated. A misprint in a popular medical book caused the death of a man in Paris. The widow has recovered damages from the author, who, with the chemist who compounded the prescription, has been sentenced to three and one months’ imprisonment respectively. In the United States Senate, Senor Lodge declared that the reports of Japanese activity in Mexico, inimical to American interests, were merely newspaper fabrications. No secret treaty existed between Japan and Mexico. The Federal executive has approved of a proclamation bringing penny postage into operation throughout Australia, also, under special arrangements, with Britain and the overseas Dominions from May 1. Advices from Japan state that 22 men were tided through a mine explosion at Hokkaido. Meetings of Lothian and Durham miners protested against the clause in the new Mines Bill making washing at the nit head compulsory before going home. Tile mcn» state that baths at the pit head make them liable to colds. . Children playing with matches started a fire in the village of Lindau, near Dudorstadt (Germany). Peasant farmsteads were destroyed, also many cattle and poultry. The’ attendance at the Sydnov Eoval Show on Saturday was 46,000, and on the previous dav bo.OOO. The takings to date ate over .£IO,OOO ahead of the corresponding period last year. A train, conveying boats for the Bairnsdale (Victoria) regatta caught fire. Before the outbreak was extinguished three racing boats were destroyed. Tlie two-year-old Victorian Clydesdale stallion Royal Scotch has been sold far 600 guineas in Sydney. The cabmen’s boycott of the wharves has been removed, pending action by the Melbourne City Council.