MISCELLANEOUS CABLES

Press, Volume L, Issue 14980, 29 May 1914, Page 7

MISCELLANEOUS CABLES

'-.19t (By Cable,—Press Association.—Copyright.} ■, - - Three cases of smallpox -were reported ;i:ia, Sydney yesterday. -I .There is anxiety respecting the rav>iyagOs of plaguo in Java. There were fatal cases in April. . ] : ;;.-' It is rejKjrted from London that fifty thousand railway sleeperf'aro on fire at ? \ArdrossaiL The damago already [•"amounte to £20,000. ' '. J": A largo number of German jounxal- [ Oisti who. are visiting England, were en- '■\ tcrtained at the House of Commons by the Institute of Journalists. -)■* The 'Kaiser, in response to the jiKaisorin's entreaties, nas agreed to ' ; -Piinee Oscar's , engagement to Fraulein Bassewjtß. : ~. ; lt.is understood in Sydney that the ;inter-Stato steamship companies wilt materially increase fares and freights after Juno Ist. r ;«• -Sir; William Macgregor, who has ■ 'been Governor of Queensland since " ;J9Q9, has intimated his intention of ro"fiigaing his position during the present ■ aeroplane, while crossing tq»:Russj an frontier at Plock, was fired -«;"aj(j damaged. Tho aeroplane deand the two officers in it were ..-■• ..arrested,-.:, ■. . - 4?.t*tagram received in St. PetersYakutsk states that v parts . M'Vi.oli balloon have been found in v ; %£weti in Eastern Siberia. It is sup- ::: -- s°®pa'tbat they aro the remains of An- , ;,«We balloon. •A^ message from Melbourne says that ' in the Federal Houso of Representatives J j» r Higgs admitted that he had taken ■ tie mace, and apologised. The Housoac- . hi* apology. The Hon. J. Cook ■»nrane Minister) proposed tho estab- , Heanient of a committee of enquiry ;w>.investigate the removal of the Speaker's notes, which, so far. have nat ■.■'.> »een' returned. ■ ."Sir Ernest Shackleton has returned 1 t<S Christiania from the glacier region of Norway. Ho states that the motor >; sledges arc excellent over rising and falling ground. Comprehensive trials ■wcro made of Antarctic equipmont. wvrtjcularly a new tent capable of holding wx people, which is so- constructed that . c-ne man can erect it in fine weather -and three in a storm. .