MISCELLANEOUS CABLES.

Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18372, 4 May 1925, Page 9

MISCELLANEOUS CABLES.

It has been arranged that Marshal von Hindenburg -will take the oath of office in the Eeiehstag at noon on May 12th.

The aviator. Firct Finedo, lias arrived in Rome from Charbar, Baluchistan.

London brewers arc holding the usual colonial wine and barley competitions on October 31st. Entries close on October 2Gth.

Canada, will De represented at tnc seventh annual session of the International Labour Conference at Geneva on May 19th.

The "Daily Herald" says that the All Busßian Council of Trades Uiiioa>, at a meeting at Moscow, unanimously ratified the agreement reached at the London conference.

After a debate which lasted for twenty-four days and ended with an all-night session, the Budget '< v as passed by the Canadian House of Commons.

Hopncr's portrait of Lady Elizabeth Bligh sold at Christie's, London, for 10,200 guineas, Reynolds' famous picture "Tho Careering of Samuel" sold for 6700 guineas.

The German Nationalists desired to celebrate von Hindenburg's election by restoring the wooden effigy 120 feet high, which was erected in Berlin during the wartime, in which patriots paid for the privilege of driving nails into it. A diligent investigation reveals that tho statue was sold to an architect after the war for a shilling s worth of paper marks, and that a wood merchant subsequently purchased it and cut it into firewood.

Governor Farrington, of Hawaii, addressing army and navy officers and Congressmen at the conclusion of the Hawaiian manoeuvres, said: "We look upon our neighbour Australia across the Pacific as upon Canada across theborder with a feeling of brotherhood. Our joint function is to make the Pacific what its nam© implies. This is our parting wmrd before the fleet sails for Australia."

A message from Victoria, British Columbia, says that Commander Eustace Maude, 11-. N., who is 77 years of age, will commence a voyage to England in a 25-foot sloOp, and! has arrived there ready to start for the open sea, with Panama as his next port of call. He will not sight land until he reaches the canal. He has provisions' for a hundred days, and expects to reach the canal in sixty days. Fifty gallons of water and the same quantity of crasoline are aboard his vessel, tho Half Moon, which has a five horsepower engine.

Dr. Charles Chfee, superintendent of Kew Observatory, who is retiring on Tuesday, told the "Daily Telegraph's" interviewer that "I shall still continue mv mathematical work. At present I am reducing the' observations of the' Australian expedition to tho Antarctic, Under Sir Dbuglafi Mawson. Eesults of geographical conditions in high latitudes are always interesting. Members of the expedition in this case were able' to establish a station near tho Magnetic Pole, the results of which may enable guidance to bo given to another expedition concerning the instruments for use and what big disturbances to provide for."