THE WORLD'S NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1624, 16 December 1912, Page 8

THE WORLD'S NEWS.

SOME RECENT CABLEGRAMS, m. The foliowinff items are taken from thfl Sydney "SunV' special cable service;— BEST..BREEDING HORSE. • London, December 2. Speaking at the Gimcrack Club's mmm! dinner, Mr. E. Hulton declared that the best horse to breed from was the miler,"The Times," criticising ffiis statement, points out that the table of winning sires indicates that distance horses are the best for breeding purposes.

THE MOST ATTRACTIVE AGE. London, December 1. Mary Garden, the distinguished New ■York opera singer, interviewed in London, said that a woman's most attractive age was 35. A man did not begin to develop till he Teached the thirties, and he was in his finest manhood at 40.

RADIUM IN GERMANY. • London, December 2. A rich deposit of radium ore has been; found in Wedsenberg;' Germany,. and_ the land has immediately risen to seven times its former value.

BLOOD HORSES FOR N.S.W. London, December 5. Mr. S. Hordern bought six blood mares at the Newmarket sales to-day, while Mr. H. R. Denison purchased half a dozen mares and a thoroughbred stallion, who is a full brother to Lally, recently sold to Italy for 7000 guineas.

STRAIN OF CITY LIFE. London, December i. The report of one of the medical officers of the Local Government Board discloses that the strain of life in' a great city is weakening to the heart and blood vessels, and causes the death-rate to exceed that of the rural districts.

FRENCH IN MOROCCO. London, December S, General Lyantey, in command of tho French forces in Morocco, hopes in_ the new year to reduoe the troops considerably.. He estimates that ,£12,000,000 is im. mediately required to develop the country.

BRITISH ORPHANS. - London, December 3. The Government of the Canadian province of Manitoba has concluded arrangements with the. Salvation Army for the emigration from Great Britain of orphan children at present in the care of tha Poot Law authorities.

TOBACCO SHIP ON FIRE. London, December S. The Chinese steamer Wangtsze reports that an outbreak of fire occurred in the hold when off Gibraltar. Fifty thousand bales of Java tobacco were damaged by fire and water.

SWIMMING STANDARDS. London, December 4. Tho Amateur Swimming Association is reducing its time standard by 4sec. for 100 yds., lOseo. for 220 and 500 yds., lmin. for half a mile, and by 2miri. for one mile.

MOTOR-SLEDGING. London, December i. A party of French officers has covered 125 miles of the Sahara Desert on a sledge mounted on six wheels and_ driven by a propeller working in the air.

CHINA'S OPIUM CRUSADE. London, December 4. All the opium shops in Wuchang, capital of the Chinese province of Hupeh, have been closed, and the drug can now be procured from only the Government depot.

, ANGLO-GERMAN RELATIONS. London, December 9. Reports.are current in Berlin that diplomatic negotiations of a momentous character, which will tend to bring about a permanent improvement in tho relations between Britain and Germany, are at present''in progress. So far, nowever, the reports have not been confirmed.