MISCELLANEOUS CABLES

Press, Volume L, Issue 14888, 30 January 1914, Page 9

MISCELLANEOUS CABLES

{By Cable.—Press Aeeociatkm.—Copyright.) Lord Knutsford, at one time Secretary of State fo.. the Colonies, is dead. A New York me&sago says that .Eva Booth, daughter of General Booth, is reported to be dying. Baron Saye and Sele and Lord Chelmsford are mentioned as probable successors to Lord Denman. The death is announced of Mr Thomas Davis, aged 61, senior partner in Thomas Davis and Company, accountrants, Sydney. Mr Cook, in an address to the Liberal "Workers' Association, Melbourne, indicated the probability of a double dissolution and an appeal to the people between now and June. Contracts for seven large meat carriers have been placed with Clyde shipbuilders, in order to expand the accommodation on tho Eiver Plate, NewYork, and Sydney-San Francisco routes. Captain Collins, Commonwealth representative in London, in a letter to the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty Co Animals, combats the accusation of cruelty to animals in transit ,to Australia. Ho describes Australia's up-to-dato humanitarian treatmont of live stock. The Federal Timber Commission is enquiring into the value of the Powell process for railway sleepers. The majority of witnesses, including a number of experts, favoured the process for preserving.the timber. Tho newly-erected wireless station at tit. Stanislaus College, Bathurst, added to its already good record by getting the high-power station , at Awanui, it picked up, though faintly, in conversation with a ship. Tho official estimate of the population of Sydney and suburbs at the end of last year was 725,400, an increase for tho year of 30,G00, or 4 2-5 per cent. Tho birth-rate was 28.95, the death-rato 11.18, and tho marriagorate 12.52 per thousand, all slight decreases. The death is announced from Xew York of William Irwin, tho millionaire owner of the island of Lonai, in the Hawaiian Group, which he purchased in 1909 for 4s. Irwin was a British subject, and his owning American territory created international complications, but tho "United States Court upheld his title. It is reported from Madrid that. King Alfonso caused consternation among his entourage by quietly leaving the palace and walking the streets to view tho capital under snow. Ho wore a grey suit and felt hat, and was smoking a cigar. He was stopped by a pedestrian and asked for a light. The King held out his lighted cigar, and complied with the request.