MISCELLANEOUS CABLES

Press, Volume XLIX, Issue 14835, 28 November 1913, Page 8

MISCELLANEOUS CABLES

(Bγ, C»tle.—Ptees Awooittion—CopTxifht) A Bcheme is being promoted for amalgamating London's ufteen electric light companies. - Work has been resumed at the Universal Colliery, Senghenydd. Twentyfive bodies remain to be recovered. "W. Smith, playing at Derby,. England, scored 516 off tie red with ivory balls, a record. A Melbourne message says that tho strike in .thfe Federal Senate is over, and the debate on. tho Imprest Supply Bill has been resumed. The Rev. -G. Campbell Morgan, pastor of Westminster OongregationaL Chapel, writes (says a Sydney message) that he is carefully consiuering the invitation to visit Australia in lylo. The losses caused by tho recent storms in the Great Lakes are estimated at over £1,000,000, including eleven steamers insured for £453,000.' Seven were uninsured. ■Mr, Glynn stated in the Federal House that Lord Denham, in August, received an assurance that the Imperial Government was not considering any proposal to allow tho New Hebrides to become a Frenoh possession. Ex-President Zelaya, of Nicaragua, has been arrested' at the instance of tho United States Department of Justice, on a charge of murdering two Nicaraguans. Steps are being taken for his extradition. The Portuguese Minister of Foreign Affairs,* in a public lecture, formally denied the existence of an Anglo-Ger-man Convention, in connexion with intervention in tho Portuguese colonies. The announcement was greeted with applause. General Bramwell Booth met 3lr Ballington Booth at New York and healed the old differences. Hβ declared tnat for the future the American Salvation Volunteers would work hand in hand with the Salvation Army, but it was unlikely that the two bodies would ever consolidate. The "Daily Telegraph" says that fourteen Continental sugar refineries have combined in an effort to force five outstanding refineries to join tho Trust. It regards this as a serious menace to English refineries, which produce half of Great Britain's requirements.