GABLE BREVITIES.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1860, 20 September 1913, Page 7

GABLE BREVITIES.

By Talegra.pli—Press itssocla/tion—OopyrisM

(Reo. September 19, 11.15 p.m.) ; Lcndon, September 19. ', Tho "Daily Mail's" Berlin oorrea<i| pondent states that the Kaiser is extensively investing in land in British Columbia. Other eminent Germans, he states, are following suit, and buying farming and forest lands.

Sydney, September 19. The Chief of the Forestry Department of Brazil is visiting Sydney with a view to securing now varieties or eucalyptus, which is already being extensively cultivated, in Brazil. London, September 18. ~ The following Australians havo been invited to tho army manoeuvres from the 21st until tho 26th inst: —Colonels Wallace, Hobbes, Leggo, Buckley, and Ramaciotti, and Captain Pyo

Berlin, September 18. The Socialist' Congress at Jena has urged the ilmperial, and State Governments and' 1 tho' municipalities to establish provident institutions for unemployed,'.who are alarmingly increasing, •

Lisbon, September 18. Costa, lately acquitted on a chargo of conspiracy, Was blown to pieces while making bombs.

London, September 19< Margarine is being issued twice daily, ( to the troops at Aldershot—one ouncxr daily to each man. . New York, September 19. Robberies representing ' £40,000 have occurred during tho summer from th© closed residences of woalthy familios m Seventy-Ninth '.Street,, absent, on holiday> 4 Antwerp, September 18. The Conforonco of ' tlio Associated Chambers of Commerce passed a resolution in favour of a Channel tunnol. Ottawa, September 18. Extensive panning operations proved, the existenco of coarse gold at Sobbola Creek, Central British Columbia. There is a great rush of goldseckers thithor.

Santiago, September 19. The visit of H.M.S. New Zealand to Santiago do Chile coincided with' the Chilian Independence fetes.i Captain Halsey, Princo Georgo of Battenburg, and others attended tho festivities, and woro warmly greeted.

London, September 19, Tho Orient Steamship Company approved plans for a 15,000-ton steamer, to bo fitted with John Brown engines, and two sets of geared turbines. Tlio hull will havo a cruiser stem, which will minimise tho vibration. Tho new steamer will bo ready in the summer of 1915, London, September 19. Mr. Harrison Smith, _of Sparlings, who was recently 111 America, states that! tho Australians' tour (referred to in an earlier mossago appearing in our sporting columns),-was a'great success. Tlio team was not financially embarrassed, although tho gates were small.

Vienna, Soptombor 18.

Mr. R. M. Joliufiton, Tasmajiian Government Statistician, lias boon clcctod a member of tho International Statistical Congress, filling ouo out of eight vacancies.