MISCELLANEOUS CABLES.

Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18423, 2 July 1925, Page 9

MISCELLANEOUS CABLES.

Brisbane reports that the State health authorities have decided, in the case of the young woman suspected of suffering from plague, that the disease is not plague. ff It is reported from London that the Australian delegates have returned from tho Brussels conference of Chambers of Commerce favourably impressed by its representative character and the work accomplished. They consider that ono of tho most notablo factors of the conference was the opportunity it gav.c for coming into personal contact with delegates from various nations, which proved most valuable in discussing international questions. A Sydney message says that of a squadron of eleven aeroplanes which loft Melbourne for the Richmond aerial base only three reached their destination without mishap. The others developed engine trouble or struck trouble chiefly in the shape of getting embedded in deep mud when landing. None of the mishaps was serious. It is reported from Loudon that the Judicial Committee of tho Privy Council dismissed with costs the appeal of the Waimiha Sawmilling Company v. Waiono Timber Company. An, appeal was heard in this caso by the Appeal Court, Wellington, on July 2nd, 31)23. A London message states that the Treasury has sanctioned tho reduction in Press cable rates to Australia. It is understood that the agreement of the British Government was largely influenced by Lord Bur'nham's speech at tho luncheon to the Empire Press Union delegates and also to the active intervention of Sir Harry Brittain, chairman of the Arrangements Committee with the Chancellor of the Exchequer. It was represented that the reduction would come very appropriately on the eve of tho departure of the British delegation. A Rome message relates that a typewriter traveller, Gregori, suspected of embezzling 55,000 lira from his employers, became engaged to the firni's tvpist. He took her to the cinema, at which ho frequently burst out into, hysterical laughter. Next morning his landlady found in Gregori's bedroom a trunk from which blood was oozing. The police expected to find his fiancee's body, but instead 1 , found the mangled corpse of a fellow-travel-ler's wife, whom he lured to his "room and murdered for her diamond ,'earrings, which he pawned for a trii&ng sum.

A Paris cable says a party of children residing in the barracks of the Tank Corps at Crony -\vero allowed to visit a -workshop where, during the escort's absence, a child picked up a shell, and tried to re'movo the fuse. The shell exploded. Three children were killed, and many were seriously injured. Eleven thousand six hundred buildings were erected in the Sydney metropolitan area in the past, financial year, at a cost of £13.333,914, compared with 11,321 in the previous year at a cost of £11,812,058. ..