MISCELLANEOUS CABLES

Press, Volume XLIX, Issue 14832, 25 November 1913, Page 9

MISCELLANEOUS CABLES

(By Cable.—P«_» Association--&>pyrtg_t.) Farry swam 06 yards in 33 2-sk_ at Sydney—a record. Ono case of smallpox was reported in Sydney yesterday. Under the Powers' initiative, the clans wiil formally elect the Prince of AY ied King of Albania in December. It is officially stated that King Ferdinand of Bulgaria roturns to Sofia within a fortnight. , A total of £2975 has been added to tlw Senghnydd disaster fund as a result of the exhibition of. Prince Arthur of Connaught's wodding gifts. A firo in the Biirraga coppor mine, New South Wales, caused datnajfco to tlie extent of £10,000. ond'has rreitdercd many employees idle. Two men .'.«'.. named Georgo Blake - and Lind_«y '-Douglas, weto killed through the overturning of a motorcar at Lnunccstoii. , Mr Atherloy Jones Ims been appointed Judge of tho City' of Eon Son Court, thus causing a by-election for Nortli-West Durham. The new Enrl Nelson, who has become a Roman Catholic, ntta closed the ancient Anglican Church at Stand Lynch oa the ground that it belongs to the f_mt}v estate. t ' ■ . ' J Admiral Emsmann explains that Avireless telegrams, not telephone messages, were exchanged between Germany and America by means of tho Goldschmidt system. Karl Hontschell, who was Implicated, in tho recent espionage eaa*., has been arrested at Chatham for threatening to shoot hia wife, who is an KngKuh-/ T/oman. Cyclonic stornut in t!id Northern River and Glen Inries districts. (New South Wales), have caused mnch' damage, including tho wreckogo oi three churches and * thy oversetting of. a fourth. ~_-. Bishopthorpe, near Goalbum, the . residence of Bishop Barlow, was destroyed by fire. The building was an - historic ono, and contained many valu* "' able historic relics. The damage is estimated at £10,000. Ohm, an official of tho Nicder Deutsche Bnnk at Dortmund, has been sentenced to seven years' imprisonment. ./ and Hartwig, an auditor, to three years', penal servitude, and fined £1000, for iraud in connexion with the bank's failure. Other officials received lesser sentences. The trial lasted 147 days. V Herbert Holford. an antique dealer; * of Shaftesbury avenue, London, has been sentenced to five years' penal servitude for receiving stolen property. Detectives • gave evidence that bo, was connected with seventeen robberies, and employed workmen to erase crests and monograms from stolen silver. i , ... Odhams Vere fined £50 and for printing sweepstake booklets, t and failing to place their name there-' on. The prosecution stated that defendants were liablo to fines amounting to £187,000. London is flooded with, lottery circulars in connexion with sweeps promoted in Switzerland, the ] majority being fraudulent. Speaking at the Australian Institute lof JouniaTiets' complimentary dinner, ' Sir George Reid deprecated for tho preI cent any closer Imperial union. Study I had. convinced him. that Australia had :no desire for a larger part in the ■ Councils of tho Empire, and no anxiety . ! for any tio of an arbitrary or compul- - jory character between the Mother Country aad the Dominions. j Sir Ernest Shackleton wm tho guest,of tho Eccentric Club. In tho course of : a speech he said that when ho started, , about eighteen months hence, to make ' the first crossing of the Antarctic flon- ; tincnt, some of his former comrades ; would accompany him. Ho added that :if the Royal Geographical Society per-" I iiiitted, he wished to name the highest point in tho South Pole regions ,Mt. 1 Ivjeentric. j The police are searching the SouthWest of London for a distinguished looking middle-*ged New Zealander. who is accused of defrauding an Edinburgh widow of £300. 'They became; 1 acquainted through a matrimonial ) agency, and he frankly told the widows'that ho wanted money to develop a .New Zealand mine. T*i_ widow raised th© money on her life policy, and paid, over tho amount under the idea that it would he utilised for; tho purchase of. machinery. The man then disappeared-