MISCELLANEOUS CABLES.

Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18370, 1 May 1925, Page 9

MISCELLANEOUS CABLES.

*- — The Turco-Grccian dispute in regard to the Iraq Boundary Commission has been satisfactorily settled. The Royal Academy has accepted a drawing of Oriental Bay, Wellington, New Zealand, by Pi'ank Theodore, member of the erew of H.M.S. Eepulse. Howard Vernon, who was found guilty of manslaughter in connexion with the death of "William Bent at Lilydale, Victoria, was sentenced to 12 years' imprisonment. The Rationalists, Mr Joseph Devlin, and Mr Macalister, who hitherto have not attended, took their *eat» in. the Ulster Parliament, and were specially wolcorflcd by Sir James Craig-

, It is reported from Sydney that the . New States Commission has completed . its report. It is understood that a : majority of the Commission is not in fav-. our of the creation of any new States.

At the inquest on Jules Reynaud, a Frenchman, employed at the Cronulla Hotel, Sydney, who was stabbed following kitchen quarrels with a fellowemployee, Samuel -Abraham Papporys, a Greek, was committed for trial on a charge of murder.

The poturns of the Government Statistician show that tho population of Victoria at the end of 1924 was 1,614,582, of which 869,280, are in "the metropolitan area of Melbourne, 40,600 in Bal>.rat, 37,740 in Geelong, and 33,640 in Bendigo, ' ■ - ; '

After eight years,' .negotiations the. victims of the German, bombardment qt' the East Coast of England are roceiving offers qf compensation, from the (Jovorttment. John Buffleldj whpse wife was tolled, aud himself injured, in the bombardment of Scarborough, oeived an offer of £2O, which he declares is merely adding insult to injury.