MISCELLANEOUS CABLES

Press, Volume L, Issue 14885, 27 January 1914, Page 7

MISCELLANEOUS CABLES

(By Cable.—Press Association. —Copyright.) Mr Holman has announced that New South Wales will be represented at the Panama Exhibition. M. PoincJ.ro attended the impressive State funeral of General Picquart at Pero la Chaise cemetery. Major Dreyfus was present. As tho outcome of a gambling incident at the French Jockey Club, six aristocratic members have been summoned before a magistrate. At the Sydney Anniversary Regatta, the All-comers Single Sculls resulted as under:—A. Pearce 1, D. Greea 2, S. Pearce 3. Sir Johnston Forbes-Robertson bade farewell to tho stage at the Manhattan Opera House, New York. There was a perfect storm of enthusiasm, and tho popular actor received innumerable floral and other tributes. Prince Philip Hohenlohe-Schilling-fnrst, a kinsman of tho Kaiser, has secretly married Henrietta Gindia, a daughter of one of tho Empress's Viennese tradesmen. Hβ intend* asking the Bavarian Government to ■ennoble his bride. The Commonwealth Prime Minister, tho Hon. J. Cook, favours the Canadian suggestion that the High Cominissionerships should bo Cabinet positions, and that tho Commissioners should have seats on tho Imperial Defence Committee. The committee- appointed by tho Homo Office to deal with the question of fires in coal mines, recommends that whenever the temperature in any accessible part attains llOdeg. Fahrenheit, tho fact should be reported to tho Inspector of Minos. Professor Taylor, of Pennsylvania, maintains that women eat more- than they ate twenty years ago in order to keep the body ehapely, and to fill tho placo of the clothing they had previously worn. They also require more bodily heat from food because their clothes are thinner. While a farmer's family at St. Gall, Switzerland, were dining, an avalanche fell. Tho violent displacement of the air toro the doors of tho house from thoir hinges, and swept tho inmates, uninjured, forty foot away into tho garden. The avalanche then fell on the farmhouse, wrecking it. Tfco New South Wales Education Department is establishing a travelling school hospital in connexion with tho medical branch of the Department, to meet the entes of parents whoso financial position prevents thpm from remedying defects in their children discovered by the medical inspectors.