MISCELLANEOUS CABLES

Press, Volume XLIX, Issue 14834, 27 November 1913, Page 7

MISCELLANEOUS CABLES

(By Cable.—Prees ' Association—CopjTielit.y . Miss Maud Allan's first public performance tirae witnessed by a largo and enthusiastic audience at Bombay. When the Panama Canal is opened the Osaka Shipping Company, Japan, will plan a round-the-world-service via Panama and Suez. Thero are over eight thousand people homeless ami destitute* in principally Albanians. The Montenegrin (jtuvui'iuiieni, la urtordinjjj rtmtit. A corner in the New York egg market forced tho price to three shillings a dozen. Women organised, and refused to purchase beyond a reasonable price. Reports have reached London that General Bramwell Booth and Mr Ballington Booth have ; been reconciled after nearly twenty years' separation. A collection of -Byzantine jewels and gems which belonged to Princess Gisela. Consort of the Emperor oonrad in 1030, has been found in tlie ruins of the Jowish quarter at Mayence. The Swies Government has ordered tho expulsion of Captain Paul Larguier, attached to the French Ministry of War, and Signor Menozzi, for espionage. It is a singular coincidence that the wives of Sir Harold Tangye and his brother Wilfred were simultaneously granted orders in the Divorce Court, London, this week, for the restitution or conjugal rights. ■■ Some difficulty is being experienced in securing a successor to Sir John Fuller, who recently resigned the Governorship of Victoria. Australian Governorships are not particularly attractive to suitable men. At Johannesburg a young woman was found murdered in a garden. Tho body was fiendishly mutilated, recalling "Jack the Rippers" methods. It is thought that the act is due to natives, at the instigation of a witch doctor. About 1400 German firms will be represented at the San Francisco Exhibition. The steamship lines will carry exhibits free. The National Committee will ask the Reichstag to grant £100,000 towards the cost of representation. The British steamer Centennial left Muroran on February 19th for San Francisco, and disappeared. She has now been' found wedged in the ice pack near Okhotsk, with her lifeboats missing. There is no sign that anyone lived on tho ship recently. The crew of forty has never been picked up. A Washington message says that the State Department has ordered the arrest of Zelaya, ex-Dictator of Nicaragua, wherever found on American territory, on a charge of assassinating two Nicaraguans. - The order is the result of the Nicaraguan Government's representations. At a conference of. traffic authorities in London, Mr John Burns stated that during tho past six years 11,000 miles of streets had been constructed, 75,000 houses erected, and 300,000 acres of rural land absorbed under urban conditions in Greater London. In tho city of London £18,000,000 had been spent on highways in ten years. Mr Thompson, American consul, addressing tins Sheffield Chamber of Commerce, stated that, in anticipation of the opening of tho Panama Canal, private and public bodies were spending £100,000,000 on improving harbour facilities, making railroad connexions, and deepening rivers in connexion with seven ports from San Diego to Prince Rupert.