MISCELLANEOUS CABLES.

Press, Volume LX, Issue 18239, 25 November 1924, Page 14

MISCELLANEOUS CABLES.

♦ in explosion destroyed an artillery .\<ore at Ivorano. Six people were :'iilled and many injured. A Melbourne message says that the ex-inter-State cricketer, Albert Lyle, dropped dead while bowling at Anakie, near Geelong.

The H' i. E. G. Theodore, who was appointed arbitrator in the ballot-box enquiry at Sydney, upheld the appeal by (Jevin and Sutherland, whose readmission to the movement he recommended. Ho dismissed the appeals cf Bailey, Buckley and Bramston.

The Amalgamated Marine Workers' Union passed a resolution against the Government's reported intention in connexion with the Anglo-German commercial treaty to remove the ban on the employment of German sailors in the British mercantile marine. The Government has been asked to receive a deputation. Mr Shinwel! says the proposal would be a gross betrayal of British seamen.

A message from Perth says that, following on domestic discord, Mrs/ Smith arranged with a solicitor to secure a separation from her husband. She entered the solicitor's office and then left the room for a moment. The solicitor heard four shots, and found Smith dead with a revolver in his hand and Mrs Smith seriously wounded. She died shortly after.

Police in evening dress raided an exclusive "West-End night club, where drink was alleged to be served during prohibited hours. They took the names and addresses of upwards of 60 members, the guests including a Duko and other titled people.

Mrs Ellen Goodchild, of Corfe Castle, died on her 100 th birthday, collapsing after' receiving greetings.

The biggest bootlegging seizure ever made is reported. The Montreal authorities captured 30,0C0 gallons of alcohol and 3000 cases of Scotch whisky, worth £IOO,OOO, aboard a barge en route to New York's ltum Row.

Leonard Rcid, son of the late Sir William lieid, one-time Governor of Newfoundland, while driving his private motor-ear assisting in the entertainment of the offiSDs on the warship Constance, during a parade in September. ran into a group of war veterans, and killed two. The car then skidded and capsized, crushing to dentil four of its occupants, including two high officers who had been visiting the ship. Reid was charged with manslaughter. Ifc was shown that he drove at 50 miles an hour just before the collision. He wns sentenced to one year's imprisonment.

The Cropley Commission resumed its sittings at Sydney yesterday. Alderman Walker was examined at length regarding the drawing of a number of cheques and the paying away of considerable sums of money. He answered questions repeatedly by saying he could not remember, afld stated his books regarding the transactions had been inadvertently burned by his wife when destroying rubbishl

At the reburial of Jean Jaures in the JL antheon, there was an extraordinary demonstration of affection and on the part .of the French people. be\enty blue-bloused miners dragged the bier, a nd at least a hundred thousand people followed in the procession headed by Admiral Jaures, the dead mans brother. Perhaps half a million people lined the streets. There were repeated cries of "Down with war'* as the procession moved towards the Pantheon. M. Herriot delivered a moving speech.

Walter Scotter, a coal exporter, of Hull, and his brother claim all the patent rights in Great Britain of sailJess ships on the German rotor mast svstern. declaring that obtained the British rights of an identical system T' l0 .V offered the patent to the British Government in war time, but it was not accepted.