MISCELLANEOUS CABLES

Press, Volume L, Issue 14986, 5 June 1914, Page 7

MISCELLANEOUS CABLES

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

• Jack London, tho novelist, is seriously ill at Vera Cruz, suffenna from intestinal trouble. ■

A message from London says that tlio Maori chiefs visited Buckingham Palace yesterday.

Captain Harland, of tho Norwegian Navy, has invented a typowritor for recording wireless messages in print. It has a simple keyboard, similar to that of an ordinary typewriter.

Tho Sydney "Sun" Newspaper Company has authorised an increase of capital 'to £150,000, and is issuing 50,000 new £1 shares, principally to provide for the completion of new buildings.

It is understood in London that three Japanese shipping companies, tho Nip-pon-Yu&en, tho Osaka-Shosen, and Toyo-Ycsen, have- agreed to amalgamate. '

A St. Petersburg message- says that Russian industry is at a standstill. Twenty-nvo inilHousjof foreign capital is withheld ■ because of vexatious commercial restrictions upon Jew 3. An early adjustment is expected.

Experiments nre being conducted at Toulon with a new typo of diving-bell invented by an Italian engineer. It is fitted with hammers, ton{«s, and otbor toeli fastened on the outsiclo and manipulated from within. . -

Six tubes filled with gunpowdor, petrol and sulphur match-heads wero found in baice of jute at Kiddcrporo They suggest an explanation of tho recent great cotton ftrcs in Bombay, which havo cansorl immense losses.

At a cycling meeting at Pittsburg, the motor-cyclo of a competitor named Armstrong became uniuanageablo »nd crashed into tlie crowd. Armstrong was killed, and v scoro of spcctiitors injured, some fatally.

Mr Justice Chapman, in an address heforo the National Sen'ice Leayuo at Wimbledon, England, detailed the military training sehc-me in operation in New Zealand, and referred to the success of the Cadet Corps, and the popularity of tho Territorial forces.

Tho New South Wales Cabinet discussed tho whole question of the Crimes Act, particularly in regard to capital punishment. It is understood that-tho Government will submit a propoitai for enacting lejiilation to distinguish between iirst and second dcg;ree« of murder.