MISCELLANEOUS CABLES

Press, Volume XLIX, Issue 14829, 21 November 1913, Page 11

MISCELLANEOUS CABLES

(By C»blo.—Proee Aaeociation.- Copyright.). A Constantinople mcsaigo *.ay». tu-.it. Turkish and Bulgarian- iielegnws' »io : considering a coinmoroial treaty. Tho West Australian, loan is quoted on tho London, market at one halt per ■ tent, premium. Sixteen dead have been lecovert-iJ.. from tho mine at Acton, Alabama. Twenty aro still missing, including many negroes. .' ' Jvrupp's dividond is 11 por eont.and the profit £1,800,000, both of which are : rocords. Tho firm" is distributing ~ £160,000 among its employees in Christmas, '■■-'- Bathurst, Now South Walt's, h * en ■ fcto, celebrating . . it.s vexitonary- Among tho guests are tho'--. daughter of the surveyor, .Mr Evans. who discovered tho Bathursi Plains. , ; H.M.S. Philomel, which has bvi-n commissioned . for the : Sew Zeatami station, has arrived at Thursday >Islan<l, -. on route- to Auckland from tho -feast'Indies. ' Tho'Privy Council -having 'granted, leave to appeal agaitiKt the ritatu Go- " vernmont taking over Sydney Government House, tho Proieil Committee is." appealing for further funds'to currj-V tho campaign to a final issue. . A steamer with £45,000 worth pY Klondyke gold on board is ice-bound J n tho Yukon river, two hundred miie-s . from the coast, and arrangements have been made to sledge the gold dcrijn the rive. , to Port St. Michael. ■ ■ ■ ■ -- Tho British ship Santa Rosa Her : re l ' turned to San Francisco. -The crew mutinied, and secured a quantity, oi liquor. Tho captain summoned United States revenue cutter, which placed a . guard on board and overawed the melt.. ,■ Giving evidence in the pearl neexiaco case at London, Brandstotter stated that Gutwirth, in Antwerp, offe'ml him . tho necklace for a million or 'v million '■* and α-half franca. Witness communicated with and negotiations wore then started. ..'■-. Tho Canadian Government is alarmed ~ .at tho American .Universities securing valuablo fossil finds, and proposes, to introduce a law prohibiting .Americans . taking fossils from Canada. Valuable . remains of Dinosaurs have been found at Red Deer rivor, Alberta. It is believ«d in Ottawa that the' Belvedere, Stefannaoti's s.uppiy ship, tin - Meto lost in the Arctic. ■ CJho was eon-- • voying supplies to Herschol Island. If ' * tho latter police post is ''abandoned, thero wyll be no means this sea-wn of communicating with Stefanason. Papers road before the Itoyai St;itjstii.al Society, London, showed ti«:it while wages had increased during tho laKt twelve years, retail prices had »-s----hibited a greater advance, Conw*qtiontly the "real wages paid London had dropped fivo per cvnt. during that period. - ' Ono hundred and seventy-three children were killed und oO*s injurtid last year in Ktrwt.s, chiefly through stealing rides on yehfcles. The London County Council is otisidoriug whether it i« possible for tchcol teach«?rs to punish children caught fctealing rides. British colliery proprietors are anxious to introdnce electric lamps, anil . the miners are favourable, provided too ordinary safety lamp is available to detect fir© damp. An English firm has invented an electric lamp guaranteed to detect and expose the precise percentage of ore damp present.

The remains of an extensive prehistoric aborigines' camp, belonging" to tho stone age, have bren discovered.at Port Macguarie. The whole area is covered with kitchen middens and other relics. With very few exceptions tbe articles found are cf the chipped stonetype.

Experience gained has -induced the British Ppst Office to authori&e ten additional automatic telephone exchanges based _cna the Iyorimor-Strowßor system. The authorities consider the automatic system excellent for ordinary cities, but doubt whether it is applicable to th«. great London oxchansef. Automatic workinß is only ooonomical whoro the • infitallatious exceed fire handred line*. .