MISCELLANEOUS CABLES

Press, Volume XLIX, Issue 14833, 26 November 1913, Page 9

MISCELLANEOUS CABLES

(By Cable.—Press. Association —Copyright.) Lord Hardjngo's resignation has been officially denied in London. A train ran into a gang of platelayers at Kartshoi't, Germany, killing seven. ■ Sir John Fuller lias resigned the Governorship- of Victoria, owing to health and family reasons. One case of smallpox was reported in Sydney yesterday. Hie embargo is to bo lifted to-day. At Mr Asquith's request the Admiralty, War Office, and Board of Trade are preparing reports on their views of the Channel tunnel scheme. Professor Starr-Jordan, President of the LelaiKi-otaniord University, California, will visit Australia.in 1914, for tho purpose of furthering the International Peace Society's propaganda. At Sydney, Woodruff was acquitted on a charge of attending to murder his wife and son, oh tiie ground of insanity, but was ordered to be detained in an asylum. v The Salisbury Museum has been robbed of six valuable , jade curios; Clever plaster of Paris imitations were substituted in the cases. Tho police have communicated with the New Zealand Government in tho event of tho curios being sold in New Zealand. Tho Dominions Site, Limited, has acquired Earl Grey's option over the Aldwych property. The London County Council has agreeu that portions of the site may be utilised for business houses, ancillary to the promotion of interImperial trade. As an Antwerp clergyman was returning from the country, accompanied by his mother and sister and her tlvreo children, ho was misled by the light of a passing car, and plunged his own car into a canal. The clergyman was saved but all the others were drowned. Fines amounting to £13,500, being £500 in each of twenty-seven cases against the coal companies iv the celebrated Vend, case, have been remitted (says a Melbourne message). The coal companies paid these, but the shipping companies who were involved took the case to the Privy Council, whp reversed Mr Justice Isaacs's judgment.