MISCELLANEOUS CABLES.

Press, Volume XLIX, Issue 14831, 24 November 1913, Page 9

MISCELLANEOUS CABLES.

(By Cabk.—Press Association.—Copyright.) ■' The- South African National Congress referred tho disputo between the" loaders to a commission of seven. Numbers of persons have been fined , in Sydney under tho compulsory section, of the Federal Enrolment Act for fail r ing to eocoro enrolment. A tender for £164,000 has been accepted for fclio erection of the Federal Bank's headqnarUrs in Moore street, Sydney. After experiments extending over five years, Professor Rudolf Somtner, of Germany, has extracted three-quarters of a gramme of radium, worth £20,000, from carnotito ore. It is reported from Berlin that Lieut. Yon Foerstner, who put a prico on tho heads of Alsatians, has boon wntonced to confinement- in b, arracks and transferred to another company. The Ohio liquor TTcenso law. requiring the number of saloons-in tho "wot".territory to bo reduced io one for. each 500 people, will result in -no closing of." 3300 saloons. Saloon-keopors roftisoff . licenses by the Board will nave io quit. Two thousand boy and girl lunatics at Ponte Seness, near Milan, overpowered their warders, assailing them with broomsticks. A thousand escaped, despite the- efforts of police and firemen, the latter using fire hose. Admiral Emsmann, director of the Lorenc Engineering Company, aanounces that the company has transmitted a coherent wireless '"telephone message from Hanover to Now Jersey ' by means of the GoldGcknudt machine. '

A Perth message says that Odgers i denies any knowledge of tho "Williams - j murder. Ho declares that ho never worked for Williams, and was.' given the horso and cart, which fe said to have belonged to Williatne, to sell by another man. Two employees of tho Co-operative Society wore driving into Broken Hill, when they wero bailed tip by a iriasked roan and threatened ' with a revolver. They handed over £70 of tho Society'e and their own moneys, and tho robber thon mounted a bicycle- and escaped. - Tho Canadian Press is inviting the journalists of Great Britain, Australia, - New Zealand, and South. Africa to a conference towards thtvend of 1914. It is proposed to meet for business, at Ottawa, and subsequently to cross, the Dominion. A message from London cays that a book of cainpfire tales, by Col. Hamilton Browne, covering unprinted episodes iv the Now Zealand and Boer wars, and Australian bushrangfcicr days, is proving vastly interesting to English readers. In connexion with the British Do* minions Exhibition, to be held at' tho - Crystal Palace in 1915, the authorities' will givo tho oversea Dominions tho . free use of tho building and allow tho exhibits to remain lor three or four . years.free of cost, except for a charge for tho maintenance of tho building. Ex-President Taft, of the United States, predicts disaster to American rule, in the Philippines., as tho natives took tho promises of self-government literally, and expected their immediate fulfil- . riient. If a capitalist war occurred in : Mexico it would be no glory to anyone, especially tho United States, and would be enormously more* expensive in liv<a and-mofloy than tho conquest of the Philippines. " ■ . . Many foreign bishops haro applied to the Vatican (says a jßomo message) for -" instructions as to whether they should condemn tho Tango. Tho Pope has re-" fcrrod tho applications to tho Congregation of Sacraments, which is collecting . the opinions of prominent theologians.. Meanwhile the bishops hare been in- ' structod to uso their own discretion in the matter. - . . •