MISCELLANEOUS CABLES

Press, Volume L, Issue 14978, 27 May 1914, Page 9

MISCELLANEOUS CABLES

(By Cable.—Press Association.—Copyright*

The difference botween the Austrian and.ltalian Cabinets is believed to be acute.

Distress in the famine. districts of India is increasing, and people afo flocking to relief works. Cholera has made its appearance.

A block of land at the corner of Moore and Pitt streets, Sydney, was purchased by-the London Bank of Australia for £75,000.

A message from Buenos Ayres says that a deputy, spoke throughout three entire sittings of' tho Chamber, establishing a record.

It k reported from London that tho sentences in the canteen cases have been deferred until the trials of Whittaker and Minto have been concluded.

Leading English educationists tendered a luncheon to Professor Herbert Heaton, of Birmingham University, who has sailed to organise tutorial classes at the University of Tasmania.

Evidence before the Tariff 'Commission at Sydney disclosed that a combine was handling imported matches, and that some.of the lines imported wore superior to Australian-made matches.

The London County Council is establishing a network of tuberculosis dispensaries, and also sanatoria for the treatment of patients. The Government is subsidising the scheme.

A London message says that the Right Hon. Sir Joshua Williams, until recently a Supreme Court Judge of New Zealand, sat on the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council on Monday.

At tho conspiracy trial in Delhi the Crown Prosecutor produced a pamphlet recommending the use of poison. It also advised Indians, disguised as punkah-pullers, to pump poisonous gases into Europeans' bedrooms.

Mr Asquith, in the House of Commons, said tho Government still _ adhered to its'decision not to participate in the Panama Exhibition. British traders were unwilling to participate on such a scalo as to ensure adequate representation.

At the inquest on Mrs King, who was found dead at Sydney on the 16th inst., irith her head nearly severed from her body, a verdict of wilful murder was returned against her husband, William King, who was committed for trial.

'"The Times," in a leader, says:— Margarine to-day is a wholesome, palatable and DODular article of lood. Not lon- ago the working Classes turned up their noses at mar-arine, but the introduction of vegetable fats, in addition to animal fats, has popularised and stimulated the consumption of the article.