MISCELLANEOUS CABLES

Press, Volume XLIX, Issue 14838, 2 December 1913, Page 7

MISCELLANEOUS CABLES

(By Cable,—Press Associstion—Copynght.) Tho Frontier of Bavaria, in the Diet, announced that thero must bo a pause for many years in German armaments, as the people were unable to bear further burdens. - Giarelli, a restaurant employee, became suddenly demented at the Nice railway .elation. Ho jumped from *a train and attacked passengers alighting .wounding ten of them witn a kniie. A large meeting at Buluwayo declined to accept the land settlement scheme because' it involved the admission that unalienated land in Southern Rhodesia was tho property of tho Chartered Company. Owing to a pointsman's error, a goods train and tho, Naples express collided at Cereano. 'Six third-olass passengers and the pointsman wore killed, and twenty injured.

M. Diakoff, Mayor of Kieff, who has been On a visit to England, reports that owing to tho Boilias caso he found it impossible to raise a municipal loan of a million and throe-quarters in London.' There ar© signs of a revolution in the conduct of fashionable weddings in London. Mayfair is eschewing tho showy ceremony and abandoning pomp and circumstance, preferring a quiet family wedding with a few guests. A* London message states" that Mexican cattlemen aro enquiring about the possibility of taking up land in tho Northern Territory (Australia). Enquiries are also being received for cocoa and rubber-growing land in Papua. A lady left her handbag, containing £2000 worth of jewels, in a cab in Paris. The cabman was subsequently arrested, and tho police raided his cousin's house. In the oven they found the ashes of the bag, molten* metal, and a few burnt stones. An influentiaUy-signed memorial has been presented to Mr Asquith asking for tho modernisation of tho Slavo Trade Acts, also tho modernisation of tho Anti-Slavery Treaties, and additional consuls in tropical and subtropical regions.

A sensation has beon caused in Bombay by the sudden death of Chuni Lai Saraya, known as the "Silver King." He was manager of the India Specie Bank, and.told tho directors.on Friday that the bank was unable to meet its calls. At the inquest the verdict was natural death. "Whilo four boys were resting on tho edge of a water-bole at Willoughby (New South Wales), after getting Christmas bells in the bush, one named Georgo William Cook, aged eight, fell in. John Francis Cook,.aged twelve, his cousin, and the eldest of the party, jumped in to tho rescue, but both wore drowned. At a meeting of scientists at Breslau, Professor Lummor claimed to have succeeded in liquifying carbon by means of a 220-volt arc lamp burning in a partial vacuum. This is tantamount to tho manufacture of real diamonds, because, if carbon can bo melted, it should be easy to cool down and crystallise. Instructions have been officially issued to Guards' officers that when in mufti in tho neighbourhood of Buckingham Palace they must wear black coats and silk hats. The order is credited as being in deference to tho wishes of the King. Servico circles are much acritated over the question "Should a Guardsman bo compelled to be a dandy in his own time?"

It is reported from London that though the original value of the stolen pearl necklace was £115.000. it is considered to have enormously increased in value by reason of tho sensational trial. Many enquiries are reaching the owner from possible purchasers. _ The pearls are being washed and polished with special cloths until they have regained the lustre lost by being handled. ,