CABLE BREVITIES.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1864, 25 September 1913, Page 7

CABLE BREVITIES.

"Times"—-Sydney "Suiv" Special Cables. London, September 23. The Government has prohibited the navigation of aeroplanes above London within a radiu3 of four miles of Charing Cross

London, September 2,3

From October next tlio cover design of "Punch" will bo printed in two colours. This will be tho first dhaiige in nearly seventy years.

London, September 23. A monster meeting of slioplteepers in Agricultural Hall expressed alarm and regret at tho great increase in Sunday trading in all important centres in Britain.

London, September 23. Sir Maurice Fitzmaurico (the wclllcnown consulting engineer) sails by the Mongolia to report on tho site of the Commonwealth Naval Docks Works.

London, September 24. One-third of the revemio from tho late Mr. Peter Coats's millionaire cstato has been allocated to charities.

London, September 24, Tho Kins witnessed tho main, operations of the manoeuvres near Northampton. , Paris, September 24. M. Garros, an aviator, lias aeroplaned from Toulon to Tunis. New York, September 24. Mr. 'Jack London, tho author, assisted a band of firefighters when the town of Glenellen (in California) was threatened with destruction by forest fires. Mr. London directed the backfiring. Great destruction was wrought in tho neighbourhood, but no lives were lost. London, September 24. A six horse-power motor-cycle, with side-car attached, has climbed Ben Nevis in ten hours. "Times" —Sydney "Sun" Special CabTos. London, September 24. A hundred distinct kinds of new flowers were exhibited at tho Royal Horticultural Show at. Westminster. Tho most noteworthy exhibit was a pale violot primula, the flowers of whioh were two inohoa across,