MISCELLANEOUS CABLES.

Press, Volume LVI, Issue 16986, 8 November 1920, Page 8

MISCELLANEOUS CABLES.

Tvro trams over-ran each other 011 the Coogee (Sydney) lino. Forty people were injurea, the majority slightly. j The German. Minister of Railways j anno uncos that the deficit on tiie State I railways exceeds twenty milliards of marks* 3lr "W. Brace, Labour member for the Tbertillery Division of Monmouth, has been appointed Labour Advisee to the new Department of Mines. Owing to reduced orders, the scar-1 city of money, and the heavy foreign competition, many Swedish ironworks are closing down. The I>anisli railways have decided to use Chinese coal, the first shipment of which has arrived, and others are en 'route. A message to Sydnev from Brisbane reports a big riotous fiolshevik deihonstration in that city. No details are yet available. Mr Austen Chamberlain has refused the Indian Vice-royalty. Pressure is being brought to induce him to reconsider his decision. The Australian Labour Party Executive is requesting the Xew South Wales Government to swamp the Legislative Council as a preliminary to its abolition. The Licenses Reduction Board (states a message from Sydney) has decided to de-license sixteen city hotels from Juno 30th next. This will be the first instalment. The existing hotels number--314. The maximum possible reduction is 76. - Mr B. D. Hanna, manager of the Canadian Government. Mercantile Marine, has announced that tho Government's service of 77 ships is ready to inaugurate services Canada and foreign, countries. The Orsova, -which has arrived at Plymouth from Australia, ronorts that Thomas Kelly, a passenger bound for Ireland, jumped overboard twice within twelve hours. Boats were lowered and rescued Ivelly, who was swimming vigorously. A Berlin telegram states that the Government reason for closing the Universities of Hallo, .Greifswald, and Marburg is to enablo it to make provision to finance the Cologne, Bonn, Heidelberg, and Karlshrue Universities. # The report of Mr Justice "Wado on the New South Wales gas enquiry recommends that the companies be permitted to increase the prico of gas by eightpence per 1000 feet. Tho present price is oa Id. Cyclonic storms again caused damage in southern Queensland. Tho fruitgrowing districts at Stanthorpe and the wheat crops in Warwick aro faring badlj.-. Many private houses are unroofed in Ipswich. Several unregistered racehorses were killed.

A number of University professors belonging to the Reichstag cordially responded to the overtures of many Oxford professors, dons, and heads, who recently sent a memorial to German and Austrian Universities, Urging an amicable reunion and reconciliation and a restoration of the former friendly intercourse. Lord Knutsford, chairman of tho London Hospital, announces that tlio Hospital, which is the biggest in Britain, will bo closed at New Year. Already thore is a deficit of £ L00,0€l), and it is impossible to meet tho immense increases in the cost of running on a voluntary basis. State aid is essential. Ono of the most curiops war sequels is a much-wounded Buckinghamshire man who long ago applied for a pension, and after a delay was informed that He was dead. He replied denying, tho accusation, but the correspondence was abruptly closed by the War Office giving him tflie number of his grave and its location. He now objects to paying income tax. Mr Winston Churchill, speaking in London, said that they must recognise the dangers of Bolshevism throughout the world. Small bands existed in every city- in Britain. He suggested t'hat there was a connexion between tho revolutionaries in India, Egypt, and Ireland .and Great Britain. It seemed as if a dead set was being made againat the Empire. A Commonwealth "Gazette" notice invites applications for new offices to be created under tho German New Guinea and Nauru Island mandates. The salary of the Administrator of New Guinea has been fixed at £1800, and of the judge £1000, with quarters. _ For Nauru an Administrator is required at a salary of £1000, with quarteflp. The Hon. J. Dooley, Chief Secretary; answering questions in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly regarding pilfering on the wharves, saicl (he had bpen informed that the greater amount of pilfering waß on deep-sea ships, on which 95 per cent, of the labour employed were classified as returned soldiers and loyalists. The statement was received with much dissent ajJid some disorder.

Two brothers, named Pcarce, have been arrested and remanded on a charge of murdering David Williamson, * the victim of the sensational daylight tragedy at St. Ivilda, Melbourne, last Wednesday. Both were fully armed. They surrendered quietly, saying they were "sick "of it. Williamson and an other man interrupted two men who were attempting to break into* a house. After one of them had shot Wiiliamson, both escaped on bicycles. , ' In reply to Judge Edmunds's invitation to members of Parliament to give evidence before a Commission in Sydney on the question of salaries and expenses, the leader of the Progressives has written to Judge Edmunds, stating that no member of the party will tako any part in tho proceedings on tho grounds tihat members are responsible to tho electors only, that the Legislature is competent, and it is essentially its duty, to fix allowances, and that tho holding of an enquiry is a tion of Parliament. Mr P. Selig, manager of the Christchurch _Prcss Company, Ltd., and chairman of tihe New Zealand Newspaper Proprietors' Association, was among the passengers who arrived at Sydney by the Osterley. He complains of the inconvenience and delay caused by the action of the quarantine authorities after tho legal time of quarantine had expired. Re. with a number of other passengers, desired for particular reasons to proceed to Svdney by train, but all were refused permission. Yet several Sydney passengers, and one who desired to see the Melbourne Cup, were allowed to land. _ Such favouritism merited a searching enquiry.