MISCELLANEOUS CABLES

Press, Volume L, Issue 14974, 22 May 1914, Page 7

MISCELLANEOUS CABLES

(By Cable.—Press Association.—Copyright.) One caso of smallpox was reported in Sydney yesterday.

Earl Grey is ill and is unable to pay a visit to the Lieutenant-Governor of Ontario. The statement issued is that the Earl is suffering from a bad cold.

Owing to discourteous treatment, tho Press withdrew from a meeting of tho Council of High Chiefs in Fiji. The Governor's speech was not reported.

Router confirms the appointment of the New Hebrides Commission, which sits in London. The report of the visit of the Commission to tho New Hebrides is, however, not confirmed.

Tho plague is showing alarming activity in Hong-Kong (says a "Times'' and Sydney "Sun" special message). Since January, there have been 1474 cases and 1301 deaths. . .

A Kanshow (China) newspaper published the verdict and depositions at tho trial of rebels. The editor refused to disclose whom his informants were, and flogged to death. Many editors have been arrested.

A. ' 'Times" and Sydney "Sun" service message states tbat business men aro convinced that telephones must bo separated irom tho Postal Department, and placed under a special authority, with a policy neither capitalistic nor political.

: Mr Acland, in reply to a question in the House of Commons, denied the existence of any obligation to Britain, moral or otherwise, for preventing Germany's official participation in the Panama Exhibition.'

The Boilermakers' Unions of West Scotland aud South Wales have issued reports, regretting the loss caused employers . through "slackers," and have warned members that wasting time will be strictly dealt with by the union.

A hundred persons attended the first weekiy Australasian luncheon at the Hotel Cecil, organised by the Australasian section of the Colonial Institute, to enable residents and visitors to meet.

In the American House of Representatives. Mr. Hobson announced that he would not press for national prohibition until the Senate had considered the State rights question, which involved and needed careful cousidera-

A "Times" and Sydney "Sun" service message from Ottawa states that Inspector Boylcs, of the Canadiaa North-West Mounted Police, has been given a three years' commission to proceed to tbe country nOrth of Hudson Bay to find two Eskimos who murdered explorers. The job is a dangerous one.

A "Times" and Sydney "Sun : » service message from London says:— A gravedigger at Andenshaw dug a grave and when getting out, fell back. The gravel sides collapsed, and a guard on a passing train saw the man's legs waving in tho air. When extricated ho was dead.

A "Times" and Sydney "&un" service messago states that tho King witnessed a spirited sham fight at Aldershot, where armoured car* like bathing boxes were pushed against wire entanglements, and tho men tore the wires with grapnels. Tho experiment did not impress the experts.

The British' Inter-Departmental Committee, in its report on sleeping sckness, deprecates the genera! destruction of wild animals, and recommends that the natives be allowed to hunt only in a prescribed area. The committee strongly urges the extermination of the tsetse fly aud advises that more nionev he devoted to research work.