CABLE BREVITIES.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXXVII, Issue 13673, 6 May 1912, Page 3

CABLE BREVITIES.

A monster Suffrage demonstration, in which 1.5,1)01) people took part, paraded the streets of Xew York on Saturday.

The price of the two-pound loaf has been increased to Old cash and 3:d booked from to-day in Sydney. The Daily Chronicle states that the men on the lower deck in the Xavy are asking for an all-round increase in pay, equal to 20 per cent. Hospital Saturday collect ion in Sydney amounted to £BO3I, which is a record. Last vear. the previous best, the amount totalled £7230. Lord FeveVsham sold Air Frick, of Xew York, Rembrandt's portraits of a Dutch merchant for £7)O 1)00.

The Magistrates found the Olympic's .53 firemen guilty, but considered it inexpedient to punish them, remembering the special circumstances arising out of the Titanic disaster.

Lieh, a retired Catholic missionary in India and Japan, died suddenly in Berlin. His heir.-, were astounded to discover his treasures in an old chest, valued at ■£75,00!). They included several hundred diamonds and other gems. The police are chasing two Indians in (he hinterland of British Columbia. After murdi'ring a European the Indians escaped from gsol, murdered a Chinaman, and shot dead a constable who was tracking them.

A Bill introduced in the Prussian Diet, empowers the Government to raise live millions sterling to purchase land in pertain districts in Cast Prussia and Schleswig- 110 l stein for the settlemeTit of German farmers, to prevent it falling into (lie hands of Poles and Danes.