MISCELLANEOUS CABLES

Press, Volume L, Issue 14978, 21 May 1914, Page 7

MISCELLANEOUS CABLES

Lord Crorner is seriously fl. Three more cases of smallpox are reported in Sydney.

•Mr Holman places tie North Shoro fcrtdge and a cdty railway in the forefront of next session's programme.

-Mr Locker Lampson, M.P., hoe introduced a Bill in the House of Commons to prohibit traffic in titles.

John Rhodes, a Bradford warehouseman, earning 30s a week, has inherited £170,000 from, an uncle, a Pontefract Colliery owner.

The Krupp,family is paying £430,000 to the German War Levy, whereof Bertha Krupn and her husband, conrtibuted £345.000.

. A duel between Count Tissa, Premier of Hungary, and. Herr Bakovskv terminated after both had been efightly wounded.' . ■'..'■■■■

"William Howard Smith.Vas the next of kin, is claiming tho intestate estato of Edmund Edmonds Smith, of Melbourne. •' .

Dobineky. a non-commissioned officer in tho Third Cuirassiers (Germany), has been sentenced to fifteen years , penal •servitude- for espionage, and fined £1500.

A 'Times" and Sydney "San" service message from Leeds states that manufacturers report that lower quality goods are going freely to Australia and New Zealand.

A lock-ont by tho Federation of Free Ship-owners has rendered idle 140 ships in Italy. Tho newspaper states that tho ship-owners offered tho Federation of Seamen tho 140 ships to run on a co-operative basis. Tho Inter-State Commerce Commis- '<- _ Eion investigating affairs in regard to the New York, Newhavon, and Hartford - • railway, learned that the lato Pierpont 4 Morgan spent millions of dollars in acquiring the subsidiary properties of ' \ other financial magnates- associated ;' with him: Mr Mellen, ex-president of / the railroad, declared that Mr Morgan ( treated, him as a child. He was too awed to question anything Mr Morgan •| did. Mr Morgan consulted Mr Roosevelt £? about come purchases. Mr Roosevelt if sraraed 3lr Morgan that ho must keep £«■. ' pand* the-.law, -fthatever else ho did.