CABLE BREVITIES.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1855, 15 September 1913, Page 7

CABLE BREVITIES.

By Tolegraph—Press Association—Copyright London, September 11. The Australian Agents-General gave an gin formal lunch to Sir George Reid, High 'Commissioner for Australia, who is about to visit tho Commonwealth, and bade him farewell. London, September 11 ; Starling, tho taxi-cab driver who injured "Jack" Johnson, the boxer, in a motor-car collision- oil l September 4, was ohaTged at the Westminster Polico Court with reckless driving, and sentenced to a month's imprisonment. ("Timos"—Sydney "Sun" Speoial Cables.) London, September 11. A Parliamentary paper show's expenditure on pooT relief for tho first lialfyeair of 1912 totalled £7,239,368, an increase of £250,131 oyer Uio corresponding half of tho previous year. v Berlin, September 18. The Gorman Principality of Lippo Dotmold has imposed a tax of five marks (about 4s. Gd.) on marriages, tho proceeds to go to a "midwives' " fund. Vienna, September 13. A case of Asiatic cholera has been reported at Marionbad. London, September 12. Thoro is a dearth of servants at Buckingham Palnco, owing to tho men in livery being required to bo 6ft. in height, and Britons only boin- engaged. The wages paid are tho samo as m other households; but those employed aro granted pensions after a minimum service of ton years. London, Seotombor 14. After the Arinv manoeuvres on Salisbury Plain, the Wnr Office proposes to try'whether it would be possible to employ motor, instead of horse-drawn artillery. •