MISCELLANEOUS CABLES

Press, Volume L, Issue 149814, 30 May 1914, Page 11

MISCELLANEOUS CABLES

(By Cable.—Press Association.—Copyright./

One case of smallpox was reported in Sydney yesterday.

A message from Porth says that two aborigines attacked their employer, Hurley, who shot one dead. Thero are no further- details.

Tho institution of Stone's aerial mail service between Melbourne and Sydney has been postponed, owing to an accident to his aeroplane.

Tho Argentine Budget reveals, continued prosperity, also an increase of throe million cultivated acres. There are 35,000 miles of railway.

It is reported from Berlin that the annual parade of the Guards at Potsdam was postponed owing to the Kaiser's indisposition.

Messrs Wilson and Morris, rotton merchants, of Manchester, had a sharo in the ticket on Hapsbttrg (who ran second in tho Derby) in the Calcutta sweep, winning £25,000.

The Prefect of Naples has been removed from his post, as tho result of. Austro-Italian brawls. Ho failed to carry out tho Government's' instruction's.

Four London hospitals are trying th© Spahlinger treatment for tuberculosis and lupus. Tho treatment docs not interfero with tho patients' daily occupations.

Statistics havo been published in Berlin snowing that 6,000,000 Uermans aro resident in foreign countries. There aro 2.600,000 in tho United States, 1,800,000 in Russia, and 500,000 in Franco.

Sir William Macgregor, whoso coming resignation as Governor of Queensland was reported yesterday, has announced that he is remaining in office till tho end of his term, excepting for » month's leave of absence, to which he is entitled.

A Sydney message says that fifty third-year medical students were fined £2'each for singing/Under the windows of professors during Commomoration Week. One student was rusticated for firing off crackers in a lecturo-room.

Robert M'unro, who is tho agent of an international turf, syndicate, has been arrested in liondon for a breach of- tho lottery laws. The syndicate flooded tho British colonies and other countries with sweepstako circulars. Two of 'Munro's colleagues have disappeared.

A resident of Snnbury, England, secured an injunction against a neighbouring market' gardener for stacking manure- and causing an invasion of flies, necessitating his windows being covered with gauze and preventing his enjoyment of his garden.

Tho people of British Columbia axe absolutely united against tho landing of tho Hindoos brought by the Kamo gata Mam. Unless thoir leader has a card up his sloevo, his venture is likely to prove a fiasco. The Press is flooded with letters protesting against their admission.

Corruption is alleged to bo rampant among servants in private houses in London, notably* in the West End. Casual tradesmen complain that it is extremely difficult to keep customers, unless somo recognition is given to tne cook or the housekcopcr, through whom orders aro given.

I/ord Joioey. presiding at a meeting of tbo Newcastl« Chamber of Commerce, said there had been a complete collapse »n tho fieight market. Shipowners seemed to havo got down to bedroCK, but low freights mado for cheaper food :»nd larger consumption. These thinjp }rid an cxtraordinaiy "nay of righting themselves.

Mr Robert Ingersoll, of tho wellknown American firm of watch manufacturers, upon discovering that his niece, eighteen years of age, was secretly married to a chauffeur, presented her with this ultimatum: "If you want to remain a member of our family, you must give up your husband." The girl replied: "Never!"

If on rising in the morning you cough and coujdi, yon will bo wise to remedy the trouble before it gets too bad. What is needed is a bottle of Baxter's Lung Preserver. A single bottle at Is lOd will cure your and build up the system generaitV. Make a point of getting it to-day. d