CABLE BREVITIES.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1868, 30 September 1913, Page 7

CABLE BREVITIES.

By Telerraph—Press Association—Copyright , London, September 28. Tho Post Office has not received a report regarding tho Brindisi robbery, and therefore presumes that it merely affects the Continental section of the mail. London, September 28. Lady Fuller, Mr. M'Bride (Victorian Minister for Mines), and other Victorians met Sir John Fuller, Governor of Victoria, at Charing Cross Station, on his arrival in England. London, September 28. The Registrar-General's returns show tliat 20 per centum of the marriages in England are celebrated at Registry Offices.—Sydney "Sun" Special. London, September 28. Mr. Anthony Brady, tea merchant and granito dealer, of tho United States, left an estate in England valued _at £1,315,000. This is tlio fourtli millionaire estate left during tlio current financial year. —Sydney "Sun" Special. London, September 29. Tlie newspaper "Lancet" considers that most people could go without breakfast. It deprecates the big midday mealj and favours a hearty meal in the ovenmg. —Sydney "Sun" Special. Delhi, September 28. The Commissioner of Police at Bombay has forbidden tho performance of "Salome" and other dances in which the performers are insufficiently clothed. [English people in India have made strong protest against the appearance in India of Miss Allen, on the gronnd that the nature of the costume worn by Iter iu hei' dances would tend to endanger tlio prestige of Englis'h women in tho eyes of the natives.] New York, September 28. Tho outbreak of typhoid on tho east side of New York, previously reported to be the worst for fifty years, is spreading alarmingly. Two hundred and seveuty-iivo eases have boon notified.—Sydney "Sun" Special.