MISCELLANEOUS CABLES

Press, Issue 14828, 20 November 1913, Page 9

MISCELLANEOUS CABLES

(By Cable.—Presa Aiiioci-tion—Copyright.)

Tho Jlamburg-Aniorika liner Acilia is sis days orcrdne from Monte Video, a fact which is causing serious uneasiness in London.

At tho Chevjllard Aerodrome, Franco, Juvisy "looped the loop" with a passenger. Ho was ioudlv cheered, and re-psntc-d the manostivro.

Tiie Statistician.' Conference decided to establish a bureau at Brussels, and also to organise a uniform iy-4'.-t'iH of commercial statistics..

Davies. the notorious Dartmoor fhepherd. has been sentenced to twelve month-' imprisonment for stealing from a church.

■":, Tlie Perth newspaper tlie ,; Work<V' biras.fined £3 on each of four charges of piiblts-tins. unsigned political articles daring the -I'cderal elections. ? Intense heat is being experienced in .Brisbane, the tomporaturo reaching over 108 degrees in the shade in the

city yesterday, a'record for November,

It is authoritatively stated in. New York that "Boss" Murphy will shortly - resign, and will bo succeeded by Senator- .O'florman, who will, reorganise fj-mmany .. It is reported from London that the «stato of tho. lato Mr Georgo W. Palmfr. biscuit-maker, has been sworn -■'at "-7&5.000. Ho left £20,000 to Reading charities. The'. Commonwealth ha-s circulated a pamphlet describing its experiences ■with compulsory training, and also tho ; latest ntnondments to ,th'o Act suggest.ud by that experience. >f«-at shipments from tho Argentine arobhe'i&g zealously inspected in Eng- - lamj for tuberculosis. Those engaged . in.the Australian trade have beon _ul« vised to avoid shipping such carcases ' at all hazaid-s? -

'.Sonic esrcitomont was caused at the ; Warwick (England) .November Meeting ■by those resenting pan-mutuel betting, outside the racecourse seizing anil imrning the whoje paraphernalia. ?? Sifjnor Marconi denies that he has cdfi*eited across tho Atlantic by wire-R-lt»S telephony ■ 'but admits that he has irtcceedod in transmitting vocal sounds distances.

; m-pro inert broko into Klippner's dia->i-und-cuttlng O-tabliahinent at - Antv«'».rp. Tliey bouhd a sleeping watch- - tiiaa. and itolo diamonds worth £12,000. Tho watchman has been ar- - resttd.

In connexion with the double wedding tragedy at Cholet, France, twelve peop.6 losing their lives af tor partaking ol a custard, the Government expert's •analysis shows that the cream was infected by flies from a stablo near which it was stored overnight.

The. Paris Courts have granted permission to seize tho securities held at various banks in Oscar Hamtuerstein's (the operatic impre_ario) naftio. on behali of twenty wcll-koown. operatic artists who were engaged byHammerstem for an American tour. Many of these artists had paid hoavy fines in £rd«r f to obtain _. release from their .rant contracts.

-A .Vow York message says that plan? g a 6»nal «xtending from Boston to aey Wost.?Fl6rida, were discussed by .&ttftT6_ttio_- of tho.. Atlantio Deep • Association. • President nusentelegraphed isaying that the *»fai fchem© was an r-ntorpriso of natiopal importan-6, and promised his ;*ttpfwrt.

:tbS4rt_ porters, while unloading forty ■'-■«£!_■ *?r■';■■ gold from Constantinople at noticed that ono box was not the l2s_^, w ? ißht \ 7, h * "* Qn clamping had . ond thr66 out of ° v *-> b »fi?- '**£ i ur^, rt so*er<_!£ns abstracted, ■"■2Sfi at *? m - Tho total consign' : at The theft . g|.g>-amitted Utwecu Cologne and

Oxford University Athletic Com?K^ oTvm £ U} ~ iho Rhodes scholars' ; 22t?-i ■*? th ? Frfeshmon's Sports, reresidence at another universe" disqnalifv a competitor from S^^ in $» freshmen's Sport*. W-nWifetors above 24 years of age will * tStv *« compete in the Unir w_2f ■*P? rts - T* l * average age of the on -Mitering Oxford is '■'. 7LY, ™ ollJ ti-"m becomes effective in ' 1014.