MISCELLANEOUS CABLES.

Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18366, 27 April 1925, Page 11

MISCELLANEOUS CABLES.

The City of Sydney Band has dcfi'ied to compete iu the Exhibition Contest at Dunediu. An agreement has been signed settling the outstanding; problems between Turkey and Greece.

Senator Gomes, President of lb? Portuguese Republic, tendered his resignation. but the Chamber, by 10t> votes to 14, declined to accept it.

The sculptors. A. G. Walker an>i William Macnullan, who designed the war medal, have been elected Associates of the Royal Academy.

At tho trial of Howard Vernon, for the murder of William Bent at Lilyva'e. Victoria, the jury returned a verdict of manslaughter. The accused was remanded for sentence.

Mrs Richard I.euthal was found in her home at Maryborough, Queensland, with her throat cut with a razor, and died in hospital. A man has been detained by the police but no details are available.

Ou the arrival at Sydney of ih* steamer Arafura from the East, a C*»stoms officer discovered over a thousand tins of opium, valued at more than £IO,OOO, secreted in the vessel. A Chiueso seaman was arrested.

Crowborough, the scene of the Thome murder, has again been shocked by the discovery of the body of a little girl named Joan Ammetts, aged ten years, lying dead with the head lettered and throat cut. Bloodhounds followed a trail for a mile and a half and then lost it. Joan went shopping, and her parents are unable to conjecture what happened.

The Bankruptcy Court granted C. B. Cochran's application for discharge subject to payment of a judgment for £IOOO, which will leave his assets free l'or among creditors. [Cochran was organiser of the rodeo side of "Wembley Exhibition entertainment. The venture was a failure mainly as a result of prosecutions by the S-P-C.A. on tho grounds of cruelty to horses and steers.]

The '"Morning Post" announces that a copy of tho Ukrainian Communist Party's official organ, dated April 12th, contains a statement by M. Chubar, presidont of tho Ukrainian Soviet, that two million peasants and their families are starving owing to the failure of tin crops.

Tho Admiralty has decided to snbsti* tut© cups and saucers for bsaai in the seamen's mess, thus terminating an old custom dating back to Nelson's day. The change is meeting with * mixed reception. A seasoned bluejacket expresses the opinion that it * a sign of effiminacy, and another that enps and saucers are liable to be UDshipped in heavy weather. Tbo chang* will first be effected in the Homo

The diplomatio correspondent of th® "Daily Telegraph" says that the reports coming from Egypt suggesting that the British Government *». prepared to withdraw tho army of occupation to the immediate neighbourhood of the Suez Canal are unfounded. 35*w» Mr Mac Donald. during th» negotiations with Zaghlul Pasha last year, flatly declined to consider such a proposal.