MISCELLANEOUS GABLES.

Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18421, 30 June 1925, Page 5

MISCELLANEOUS GABLES.

A fire in the Gippsland Co-operative Bacon-curing Company's works at Dandenong, near Melbourne, did da*aago estimated at £20,000. A London message reports that the Earl of Clarendon has been appointed chairman of the Overseas Settlement Committee.

The Melbourne Oity Council has adopted plans for the reconstruction, of the Town Hall at a total cost ot £98,600.

" A Delhi cable states that Mr Sen Gupta, secretary of the Bengal Swaraj Party, was unanimously elected general president in succession to the late Mr C. R. Das.

Manila reports that a typhoon swept central Luzon and killed 11 people. Crops and property were severely damaged. '

A London cable announces the death of Major Henry Graeme Anderson, Consulting Surgeon to the Royal Air Force, and formerly for many years in the Navy..

According to a Berlin .cable, the exKaiser, in a message to Brandenburg) peasants celeßrating old-time victories against the Swedes, said: —"Only the return of Prussian victories can free us from murderers and slavery. Into the dust with 1 all foes of. Brandenburg." The ex-Crown Prince has -written a book entitled ."I Teach Truth," with the object of proving the war-guiltless-ness of Germany and the Hohenzollerns.

A Berlin message says that Kuechenmeister, a manufacturer whose motorcar -was used by the murderers of Dr. Itathenaii, former German Chancellor, was acquitted. Another accused, Brandt, -was sentenced to four years' imprisonment for not informing the authorities of the plot, of which he was cognisant.

A Perth message says that Mrs Moore and M ; ss Doyle had gone to the Rockingham Hotel in the company of two men and registered themselves a3 single women. A note was found on Percy Moore's body asking his mother's forgiveness. Miss Doyle found Mrs Moore with a bullet wound in the faoo and Moore lying dead alongside the bed with a bullet through his head.

A Melbourne cable states that Mr W. P. Crockett, • a member of the Legislative Council, resigned his position as honorary Minister in the Victorian Government on the ground that he was dissatisfied with the policy of the Ministry and its general attitude towards the platform of the Country Party.